The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-10
BRIGHT OUTLOOK
FOR ROADS IN '23
Rail Executives Expect to
Meet Traffic Demands
Likely to Arise

NEW YORK Nov N There is
every reason tu expect iu 1923 "a
hettcrmcut Of railroad operating
conditions such as viii enable the
railroads 10 meet AN traffic demands
that arc likely 10 arse. aCcordlug TO
local TRANSPORTATION executives who
have been aualyzing tn present
work or the carriers with "a Wow Go
forccsaung the future Tho ofn-
Cills point out that thcrc is uoth-
ing now in sight TO warrant an eN-
puctntiou Of tho adverse coudl-
tlous that faced tho carriers lu 1921
and 1879
Executives pointed out that tho
history of traffic TN this country has
shown that it almost invariably at
talus It's peak" TN the fan That
IL the period of the heaviest grain
movement the heaviest coal move
mout and even of tho heaviest move
mont of other products. a COM
purison of records. moreover.
showed that three OF the five weeks
In which the railways have loaded
more than "a million cars have fallen
In October. These records were
registered IN 1890
Althou. al the present is "a rush
period. the officials find that the
situation is distinctly better than Il
was in the congCstcd periods Of
1920, and 1t tho present time the
rush ia said to be nearly over.
"A largo part OF the coal traffic
that failed TO move because of tho
coal strike must necessarily be made
up during the fan ana winter
months" according to American
Railroads. an official publication of
A...4t.tl.F. lV.ITtt.aF Ifga.tt.
tiyes. The decline IN coul move
men, up to October was approx
matcly 100000 cars.
Assume that ora-haN o. th!s de-
ferrcd movement Tor 4T6,OOO Cars)
must be handled during the three
months between October am De.
ccmbcr 81, 1929. the remaining half
TO be made up i'm the three months
from January / to March 81 1923,
assume further that the movement
of other commodities than coal dur
ing those same three months tfrom
October ! TO December 80 is 10 per
cent greater than during tho same
three months OF 1921 che increase
in these commodities for the first
nine months OF the year being
nearly 10 per cent?, II follows that
the total number Of car loHdings
must bo very much increased over
the same period of 1921, II the de-
mands OF the traffic are TO be met
During the last three months OF
1921 total londings amounted 20
l017i.297 cars OF this L. . coal
car loadings represented 2,Ol2,64i
cars. and other commodities than
coal S,1O1,G53 cars. Add 10 per
cent 10 the latter total. aud II is
raised to 100000. 10 the former
total add I75,O0O cars OF deferred
coal movement and W arrive Ht a
probGble coal traffic for the last
three months OF 1922 approNimatlpg
2,b50,OOO cars.
The total for all traffic will be
| $4,000 cars. This total. It vii
/ be noted Is greater 10y 100000
/ cars, or 70 per cent, than the cor
/ responding total for tho same period
! of 1924, and is slightly greater thar
| the corresponding total for ,he yeai
| 1920, tho traffic for that year boinS
| the greatest ever recorded In q
/ similar period.
Based on tho foregoing assump'
/ tions, the number of freight carr
| loaded with revenue freight during
! the tnal three months %, 1899
/ 1891 ana 1922. viii have been as
| follows.
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