The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-10-26
CAN'T GIVE CARS
TO HAUL
Railway Notifies Commits
sion That it Has Done
All It Can.
NEW APPEAL READY
Racine-Kenosha County Farm
ers Ask Blaine to Gust
Railroad Commission.

Railroad Commission.
Cabbage growers in Racine and Ke-
nosha counties are not likely to get
much relief from the Chicago, Mill
waukee and St. Paul Railway company
jas the officials of that company have
notified the Wisconsin Railroad Com
mission today that the company has
furnished all available stock and box
cars to the Racine Kenosha county
district. The supply furnished has
been entirely inadequate to meet the
demands of the shippers at the vari-
Gus points in the two counties and it
/ is certain that considerable losses
must be faced by the cabbage growers
on account of their being unable to
move the crop. In its reply to the
railroad commissions demand for cars
for this purpose the company's Of
fcials said that the demands of stock
growers for cars and cold weather af-
fecting the grazing of stock, have fore
ed railroads to withdraw many of their
cars to the western cattle districts.
Doing All Possible.
H. R. Trumbower, a member of the
commission, declared today that he and
his associates were doing everything
possible to aid stock shippers of
stock, potatoes and cabbage in obtain
| ing cars to send their products to
market He said that critical car
shortage exists throughout the state,
with the railroad commission power
less to place cars at the disposal of
those who need them.
| It is admitted that the inability Of
shippers to get cars to take the pro-
duct to market, is causing the com
mission men to refrain from buying
and that costs of cabbage and pota-
toes are being reduced. The great
potato crop of Wisconsin, it is de-
c1ared, will never get into the big
markets on account of a shortage of
cars. Potatoes have sold as low as
twenty-five cents a bushel in some
districts of the state and many cities
ale now trucking protatoes from the
fields to the markets.
Would Gust Commission.
Meanwhile farmers in the Racine
Kenosha county district as result of
an indignation meeting held at Som
ers on Saturday evening, are planning
to send petition to the governor on
Wednesday asking that the present
railroad commission be ousted and a
willa a1lege that preference is being
shown, in the matter of securing cars,
to manufacturers and dealers in non
perishable products, leaving the rails
ers of perishable products in the posi-
ton that they are forced to take a
loss of a part or all of their crops.
Crops Rotting They Say.
! Following is the petition which was
formulated and is now being signed
by produce growers and shippers:
"To the Hon. John j. Blaine,
Governor Of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin.
Honorable Sir:
"Due to the inability and indifference
of the present railroad commission in
the past and particularly in the past
ten days, to assist the growers and
citizens of Milwaukee, Racine and
Kenosha counties in their appeals for
aid to secure equipment to move the
cabbage and onion crops which are now
sroiling and deteriorating in the fields
and on wagons, and which will be a
total loss shortly due to freezing
weather on account of total lack of
equipment Of any kind or description
with which to move these perish
able crops.
Out of Cars for Week.
Notwithstanding the fact that manu-