The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-29
No Drop in Railway Revenues
This Season.
Cars Are Scarce and Tonnage
Is Heavy.
EARNINGS ARE SOARING
Passenger Traffic Keeps Pace
With Freight.
Other Items of Interest in the
Traffic World.

Chicago. Nov 2e.-Business usually
runs TO a peak and drops off with All
the railroads. This year there does
not appear to be any peak. as the vol
ume of tonnage continues at record
aggregate with all railroads working
TO full capacity, nearly all short OF
empty cars, and all having more bus
mess in sight than they can take care
of as rapidly as shippers would like.
l. a report sent to the New York Ev-
ening Post Boxcars are scarce. and
there is also a shortage in the supply
of coal cars. Notwithstanding the mild
weather. Should the temperatures
drop lower and necesSitate an increas-
ed consumption of fuel, it is hard to
tell where the supplies Of coal would
come from fast enough to satisfy the
demard- The movement Of coal. Inef-
chandise. and miscellaneous freight
has never been larger Grain business
is satisfactory, but is restricted by
scarcity of boxcars. and in few days
there has been dropping off in ship
ments from the interior because OF
decline in prices
Weather Is Fine
Fine weather all over the agricul-
turaI regions has enabled the railroads
To operate freely, also allowed farm
ers to do an unusual amount of field
work. such as blowing, husking and
cribbing corn. and it has been taken
advantage of 70 the fullest extent
Their work is rapidly nearing compile
ton. vet farmers are not in hurry
to sell corn, because of the low price.
and have preferred TO rush their field
work in preference to marketing their
crops. The grain is there, however
and Will be moved sooner or later, so
that the railroad people are not I'M
easy. and many of the roads would
prefer slight easing up in business
to enable them to catch up.
There is considerable congestion at
different points in the country, owing
10 the inability Of manufacturers to
unload cars fast enough Traffic IN A.,
sugar beets this season has been I'M
usually heavy, as the crop is large, |
and factories in all sections have been 7
crowded to their capacity One plant /.
in Wisconsin which has recently brok- +.
en- part of its machinery and was
forced to close down, accumulated 500 i
cars of beets within short time
Santa Fe Runs Sections.
Passenger traffic is heavy, especially /
to the Pacific coast, the Santa Fe be-
ing forced TO run its limited trains in I
two and three sections, all being full.
The movement OF cotton in Texas
continues heavy, and picking confirms
previous estimates Of a large crop n
Winter wheat in the southwest is in /.
excellent condition, and. in fact, all 1
over the winter wheat belt is doing
well. the acreage being about the same
as last year to a little less. II
Grain receipts, while heavy, show a
small decrease, which is natural for
this season. But a large business Is
expected for some time Receipts at
Chicago last week were only 3O9OOO
bushels less than the previous week,
or a loss of As per cent But they
exceeded those of last year by $780, 600
bushels, or 49, per cent, and the five
year average by 1.63s, 600 bushels, or
81 per cent. Wheat receipts by rail
were 272. 900 bushels under the previous
week and oats decreased $4,000 bush
els. while corn increased $4,000 bushels.
Increases over last year were $4,000
bushels wheat, and 1,541.000 bushels
oats. but in corn there was a reduction
of ass. 900 bushels
The Northwestern went to the front
in the grain traffic last week, with Is
per cent. while the Rock Island had
II per cent, and the St Paul 16 per
cent The Illinois Central delivered II.
Burlington II, Eastern Illinois s. Great
Western and Alton 3 per cent each,
Wabash and the Santa F'e . per cent
each.