The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-22
COAL AND GRAIN
MOVING FAST
Railroads of Northwest Be-
ginning to do Immense
Business-Car Shortage

Minneapolis. MINI. Aug. 22.-The
great annual east and west bound
movements of the two commodities
that figure most prominently in the
fan in the economic life of the north
west began in earnest today with 500
carloads of coal checked past mid
west recording points by the railroads
and 7SS car of grain received in Min
neapolis. The 500 line has taken 100
cars of coal through Brooten since
Friday night. the Milwaukee moved
1875. the Great Northern $50. the
Northern Pacific 100 and the other
roads the remainder.
The 500 Line.
We have 5000 empty cars on our
lines waiting for grain loading" said
500 line. THE country ha snot Or
dered coal and there may be trouble,
hut there is a noticeable increase in
the coal movement of the past few
days which s enc~ouraging."
Great Preparations Made.
The Great Northern road V be-
fore made such exhaustive prepare
ton for tho big tonnage, Traffic Man
ager w. +. kenney said. and he does
not believe that the big Minneapolis
distributing houses will suffer for
want of equipment.
The Northern Pacific.
]. G. Woodwork. traffic manager
of the Northern Pacific. said the big
Minneapolis line yard companies have
northwest. but other than that the
coal demand has been light. lin this
and in the possibility Of trouble in the
terminals is the danger" Mr.. Wood
worth said. "As for ourselves. We
have today 5000 NOR ears on the line
than we had when the last big grain
crop. that of 1909, began to move"
j. II. Foster, geenral superintendent
of the Milwaukee, got back today
from Aberdeen. S. p. We arranged
some time ago to handle $50 cars of
coal a day from the head of the
lakes" MIR. Foster said. I'VE have
plenty of cars and abundant motive
power in the fields. If the terminals
can absorb the movement when it be-
gins to come, we will get through.
The Omaha Road.
a. NJ. Fenton. assistant general
freight agent of the omaha road. said
today that there is evidence of an
increasing coal movement from the
head of the lakes and from the Illinois
field.
IF there is a car shortage. it will
probably he felt first in Minneapolis
he said. ESPECIALLY if wet weather
should delay the movement of grain,
because the roads have SO many cars
in the country waiting 10 he loaded.
believe there are ears enough and To-
cornotives enough to take care of the
movement for some time to come"
4, . 49,
the Minneapolis G. st. Louis road in
Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota.
called into Minneapolis for conference
over the car shortage situation and
the coming movements of grain and
coal. met yesterday in the general Of
fees of the road. L. NJ. Steibel. agent
at Dawson. Mimi, told what might he
done to ward off the car shortage by
cooperation. 1t was the general onin-
ion of agents that when the Goa de-
mand comes on, and the grain ship
ments increase, the call for cars will
he greater than the railroads can sup
ply and that it will be a condition
general on all the lines.
1913 Cars OF Grain.
With 73s cars of grain received to-
of which nearly 500 contained
new crop product. Minneapolis scored
one of the biggest days of record for
SO early a date. indicating, grain men
said. that the first thousand-car day
will be reached earlier this Year than
ever before and that a two-thousand
car day will be recorded prohab bly,
within sixty days from now. Corn
and flax receipts all old o were
light, but there was enough new
wheat to bring the carloads to 4S1
with $50 a year ago today,
oats filled so cars compared with 25.
there We're 81 cars Of Y compared
with %. and the barley receipts filled
1913 cars. while a year ago today only
81 cars came in.
The Pennsylvania Railroad COM
today n out a bulletin from
covering the car situation
in the United States as a whole and
car shortage this fall and
All the roads with Minneapo-
lis and St. Paul headquarters have
able to furnish cars promptly to
time and the beginning of the
grain crop movement. which started
will be the test, traffic men say,
of the ability TO unload and return
cars to the grain fields promptly
enough to prevent congestion.
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