The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-11-24
10000 CARS OF SPUDS
VIII be Shipped from Idaho to Markets
OF East.


THE Oregon Short Line will ship
10000 carloads of potatoes alone out
of southern and eastern Idaho this
year"
This was the declaration of Joel
Priest, industrial agent for the state of
Idaho for the Oregon Short Line, on
his return from a visit to headquar-
ters at Salt Lake.
Can you give an estimate of the to-
tai number of cars of fruit, potatoes,
wheat, oats and hay that your road
will ship out of the same territory this
year. was the next inquiry that was
put to Mr.. Priest.
THAT is too much of job for me-"
was the reply. II would not under
take to make an estimate, but | konw
that it will be an immense quantity.
There is no way of ascertaining
how many cars have been and will yet
be required to handle ldaho's immense
crops this year From all sections
come the same story and the same cry,
Cars, cars. Give us more cars.!'
Every day the railroad yards at Po-
catello become congested with loaded
cars which have piled in there from
the north and from the west. There
are cars of potatoes, cars of wheat,
cars of oats, cars of hay, cars of grass
seed, cars of ore, cars of every kind of
Idaho product rushed into that gate
way every day. Every day trip
across the new viaduct just completed
across the Pocatello yards will dis
close hundreds of cars filling the
tracks and awaiting to be assembled
into tranloads destined for common
l no int. n,s1n ,,,1 Il
would not keep the yards at that point
clear, and those trainloads would not
be the little, light train with which
middleaged people were familiar, but
they would be the trainload of from so
to 60 cars-and all loaded with Idaho
products.
Stations and sidings along the main
line of the Short Line both north and
west of Pocatello and even east and
south, which never before were known
to demand a car for shipment of a
product, have this year demanded and
| filled from 10 to 100 cars of potatoes
or wheat or oats or hay.
| This is no fancy boomers story; ii
| is story of hard facts which can
readily be verified by inquiry from any
section of the state. Even Pocatello
which never has demanded a car for
! the shipment of an agricultural pro-
duct before, has already shipped 20
cars Of wheat this year. Little stations
west of American Falls which most of
us have never before heard named
have shipped as high as 100 cars OF
wheat, and American Falls itself is
shipping unknown millions of pounds
| of the same product. All along the
Twin Falls branch every siding and
station has it's demand for cars fol
the shipment of potatoes and hay
much of which is going back as far as
st. Louis to be fed to the COWS ant
horses of that section.
North of Pocatello from Blackfoot tt
Ashton 5000 cars are or have beer
needed for potetoes alone and nobody
can guess how many will be required
for the wheat. the oats, the hay, the
alfalfa, the clover and the timothy
seed, not to mention the sheep ant
horses and cattle taken from the farms
and ranges.
And not only have the crops beer
the greatest ever known, taxing thu
railroad company more than 1t wa:
ever taxed before and rendering it un
able to handle the business with the
rapidity that the shippers desire, bu
prices have been exceedingly good fol
everything that has been offered fol
sale and shipment. The farmers O
Bingham, Bonneville, Fremont, Twil
Falls and Lincoln counties have mad'
from SIS to $3.50 and in exceptiona
cases even more than that from thei
potato crops alone this year and the.
are getting the cash for it, too, ant
most of it comes from the eastern
states to be left and expended in Ida
ho.--Capital News.