The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-01-25
GARFIELD GIVES RII
REASON FOR ACTIN
MOST IMPORTANT TO SEND "a.
AND SUPPLIES Ac Ross
SEAS, HE SAYS.
The Coal Needed to Send Them
Is Waiting Behind the Conues...
Freight That Has damned
All Terminals.

Washington. ~ Fuel Administr
Garteld's statement in explanallm
his order closing down the indue.
east Of the Mississippi river on 4,
airy IS to %, inclusive, and also
each Monday beginning Januar
and continuing up to and incha
March -, follows:
The most urgent thing to be NJ
is to send to the American fmk
abroad and TO the allies the food l
war supplies which they vitality M
War munitions, food, manufacna
articles of every description. lyiBr
Atlantic ports in tens of Thousand,
tons, where literally hundreds of Sb45
loaded with war goods for our n
and the allies, cannot take the )
because their bunkers are empty
coal. The coal to send them on ma
way is waiting behind the conges
freight that has jammed all termn,
Ships Need Fuel.
ut is worse than useless to bsi
our energies to more manufactur
when what we have already manu1
tured lies at tidewater congesting Y
minal facilities, tanning the railri
yards and side tracks for long \
tanceS back into the country. No n
er on earth can move this freight N
the war zone where it is needed nd
we supply the ships with fuel.
"Once the docks are cleared of /
valuable freight for which our n
and associates in the war now want
vain, then again our energies
power may be turned to manufael
ing, more efficient than ever, 50 D
steady and uninterrupted STREAM
vital supplies may be this nations
swer to the allies cry for help.
Excess Production Blamed.
1T has been excess of product
in our wartime speeding up. that
done so much to cause congestion
our railroads; that has filled I
freight yards to overlooking; that
cluttered the docks of our Allan
ports with goods waiting to go abrc
At tidewater the flood of freight
stopped. The ships were unable
complete the journey from our I
tories to the war depotS behind
firing line.
Added to this has been the di
fully of transporting coal for our Q
domestic needs. On top of these d
cultieS has come one of the most
ribly severe winters we have KNOW
years.
Weather Works Havoc.
THE wheels were choked
stopped; zero weather and snowbO
trains; terminals congested; hart
with shipping frozen in; rivers
canals unpaSSable-it was useless
continue manufacture and pile {
fusion on top of confusion.
"A clear line from the manufac
ing establishments TO the seaboard
beyond; that was the imperative M
1t was like soldiers marching to
front. The men in the foremost "a
must have room to move.
more than shock was needed
make way through that conges
at the terminals and on the docks
that the aid SO vitally needed by
allies could get through.
Mines Lie Idle.
THE incidental effect of this tn
portatiOn situation on coal produc
has been disastrous. There is and
ways has been plenty of fuel. hu
can not be moved TO those phi
where it is So badly needed while
road lines and terminals are che
Throughout the coal fields, SCI
wen hundreds of mines are lying
because of railroad inability to 50
the ears tn carry away their pros
Coal mines cannot operate viii
cars. Cars cannot be supplied y
| the railroads are crippled by the !
ent freight congestion, which K
idle cars lying useless in the ire
yards.
In the past week the produ.tio
coal has been di>astrouSIy redE
/ Reports i'm some cases have show
/ per cent OF the Iaiuos i'm certain
/ closed completely for lack of .H1