Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-21
WESTERN BUSINESS PICKS UP
Hartman Line Pressing All Cars Pos
sible Into Service.
STOCK MOVEMENTS ARE HEAVY
LOnR Trains of Holiday Goods Are
Being shipped West to Delight
the Young Folks at
Christmas Time.

OGDEN, Utah, Nov. 2O.-(speciaL)-The
Hartman roads centering in Ogden are
busily engaged these days capturing for
eign'' cars. That means that the Union
Pacific Oregon Short Line and Southern
Pacific are doing a business so extensive
as to exceed the capacity Of their own
equipment and to be in need OF more
rolling stock.
Coal cars, stock cars and flat cars from
other lines loaded with merchandise, If
eastbound, are sent 20 the transfer tracks
here and the contents placed in system
cars, the coal cars of other lines being
sent TO the coal fields of Wyoming and
the stock cars ordered to the cattle ship
ping points in Nevada Utah and
wyoming.
West Of here there IS quite a rivalry
over stock shipments between the South
ern Pacific and the lately opened Western
Pacific. After the Gould line, by having
stock cars available for immediate use,
had captured twenty trainloads Of live
stock originally intended for the Southern
Pacific, the Hartman officials became
aroused and since then they have been
communicating every stock car within
reach.
W. r. Scott assistant to julius Krutt-
schnitt, accommodating through the local
yards came upon transfer gang unload
ing through freight from a Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy stock car TO a system"
car and sought an explanation from the
men and, failing to obtain a satisfactory
answer, stormed around demanding 20
know who in authority was so devoid OF
common sense as TO waste money and en-
ergy in that manner. Later he was
quieted by being informed that Il was an
act Of piracy made necessary by the ex-
traordinary demand for stock cars and
he was further informed that the same
method was being employed IN securing
enough coal ears 10 meet the requirements
/ IN the transportation Of fuel
/ A car shortage is unmistakable evidence
OF re-estabnshed prosperity here over the
entire Hartman system.
Rails for Hartman Line.
/ Nine carloads Of rails, the first OF a
/ shipment OF 400 carloads for the Southern
/ Pacific railroad, arrived today and are
being transferred from Union Pacific-or
what Is known as system TO for
/ eign cars. The rails are for Nevada and
/ California points and run from $1,000 to
900 pounds TO the car
! The Southern Pacific company is con-
structing a line north from Wadsworth,
] New 70 kldfnaAht OFe-t Wnlch - 10 con
meet with a line south to Los Angeles
| This road will be known as the coast cut
! off and IL will eliminate several hundred
miles between Portland on the north anC
Los Angeles on the south.
ogden will benefit by this new con
structIon work by reason OF the fact tina
part OF the road IS to serve as a connect
/ ing link, placing ogden and Los Angelo
in closer communication than Is possibl
even over the San Pedro or Clark route
likewise It viii reduce the distance from
Omaha 10 the metropolis Of southern Can
J fornia-
ogden BuiIdinR Fast.
For the first time in the history OF tn,
two cities. Ogden. during the last thre
months. has outclassed salt Lake city II
building permits. Since the slump in Zion
there has been heavy falling of IN con
sFuctlon work and a considerable eXodu
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