The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-17
Will Distribute 20,790 Cars
to Move Food and Grain
Quickly.
IS WAR BOARD PLAN
Vegetables, Lumber and 9th
er War Necessities Will
Be Transported.

grain and food products, as well as
lumber and munitions, the Car Serv-
ice Commission of the Railroads War
Board has ordered the immediate dis
tribution of 2O,79O additional empty
cars along the lines operating in the
South, the Middle West and the South
west. This will make a total of 106,-
| 033 empty cars that have been Or
dered moved from one railroad to
another, regardless of ownership
during the last two months.
In order to mobilize in different
sections of the country sufficient num-
ber of cars to handle the abnormal
government and commercial traffic
that war conditions have produced, of
the latest cars ordered by the War
Board to be distributed where they
will be most needed, 1880 are to be
placed in the grain producing coun-
Pacific and 500 to the Western Pacific
/ to insure the speedy movement of
huge shipment of barley. Other
roads are receiving cars to accelerate
the movement of grain and farm
products are the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas, the Missouri & North Arkan-
sas, the Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient, the Atchison, Topeka G. Santa
Fe, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash,
the Nashville, Chattanooga & st.
Louis, the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific, the Illinois Central and the
st. Louis & San Francisco.
Many Cars to Handle Vegetables.
To protect the vegetable and South
ern watermelon crops more than 5000
| cars have been sent to the Atlanta,
Birmingham G Atlantic, the Central
of Georgia, the Seaboard Air Line, the
Atlantic Coast Line and other roads
operating in the Southwest Mean
while hundreds of cars are being
rushed daily to the lumber states of
! the South to take care of the tremen-
! dOus movement of lumber to the army
cantonments and shipbuilding yards.
In addition to the demand for lum-
Der, the war has practically doubled
the orders for phosphate rock during
the last three months. This product
which is essential to the operation of
sulphuric acid plants and the manu-
facture of munitions is also used as
foundation for fertilizer. In the
past the coastwise vessels carried a
large volume of it, but with the re-
duction in the number OF vessels used
for freight purposes along the coast
practically all of this traffic has been
diverted to the Atlantic Coast rail-
roads. AS result, it has been
necessary to send thousands of cars
into that district to protect the move
ment of sulphur for the munitions
factories. Hundreds of cars have
been ordered to the Kansas City
Southern, the Southern Pacific and
the Gulf Coast Line; more than a
thousand stock cars have also been
sent into Texas to enable the cattle
raisers there to get their herds into
the Western pasture country.
Cars Consigned to Many Lines.
The<roads to which the latest or
der of 2O,790 cars has been consigned,
together with the number of cars
consigned to each, are as follows:
Central of Georgia 1900, Chicago,
Peoria & st. Louis 200, Mississippi
Central 1876, Southern 3,O25, Atlantic
Coast Line LOO, Illinois Central 600.
Georgia, Florida & Alabama 30, Mis-
souri, Pacific 600, Richmond, Freder-
icksburg &c Potomac 100, Georgia &
Florida 300, Tennessee Central 100.
Georgia 200, Seaboard Air Line 1000.
Louisville & Nashville LOO, Mobile
& Ohio 1000, Louisiana Railway and
Navigation Company 500, Wabash
1000, Missouri, Kansas & Texas 1000.
st. Louis Southwestern 500, Carolina,
Clinchfield & Ohio 300, Chicago &
Alton 500, Louisiana & Arkansas 200.
Missouri & North Arkansas 300, Kan
sas City, Mexico & Orient 500, Chicago
e Northwestern 500, Atchison, Tope-
ka & Santa Fe 500, Nashville, Chatta-
noonga & st. Louis 500, Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific 500, Southern Pacific
1000, Western Pacific 500, st. Louis
& San Francisco 500.
OF these cars, 14,700, or a little
more than two-thirds of the entire
order, are to be supplied by the Penn
sylvania System. The other roads
which have been ordered to supply
"empties" include the Western Mary
land, Philadelphia & Reading, Cleve
land, Cincinnati, Chicago & st. Louis.