The Washington times., 1930-07-05
.M.k.T;LOAD|NGS
SHOW 10 Pc.
INCREASE
Officials Expect Gains Over
May To Be Continued; New
Express Service Is Installed

Express Service Is Installed
An estimated increase Of 10
per cent In June car loadings
compared with those Of May was
announced yesterday by New
York officers of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad Com.
pany. The gain is attributed to
the wheat movement which be.
gan June Is, to the hauling of
large quantities of cement for use
in road building in Oklahoma
and Texas, and the transporta.
ton of steel pipe to be used in
the gas pipe lines running out of
Texas into the Middle West.
Compared with June, 1929. car
loadings on the road show
decrease of 9.3 per cent for June,
the figures being 45,849 cars in
June last year, against 41,933
in June this year. In the week
ended June %, 1880, cars to the
number Of 10,446 were loaded,
compared with 11,7s1 in the cor
responding week Of 1929.
Notwithstanding the decline
from June a year ago. road Off.
cials expect the present trend of
improvement to continue. 1t is
thought that wheat will move in
volume Notwithstanding low
prices and the over-plus now in
storage, as many farmers in the
roads territory are not in finan.
cial position to hold the crop.
Freight-Express Service
Freight-expreSs service supple.
mental to the regular less than
carload service of the Missouri.
Kansas and Texas lines has just
been instituted in Texas through
the agency of the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas Transportation
Company. BY means Of this
agency shippers are provided
with a pickup and delivery sys-
tenn of freight handling not hith-
erto afforded them. The trans
portation company is owned by
the railroad company and Off
cered by the M. K. T. officials.
Under the Katy freight-express
service plan there is no operation
of motor trubcks on the highways
by the transportation company.
The railroad company contracts
with the transportation company
to perform the pickup and de-
livery part of the service, and
the transportation company in
turn contracts with existing dray
or transfer lines in the COM
munities served to pick up out
bound freight and bring it to
the railroad station and to de-
liver inbound freight to the con-
signees. Thus there is no dupli-
cation of existing service, but a
coordination in the direction of
more efficient service. Store door
delivery service is thereby pro-
Vided without the addition Of
more motor trucks.
Chief field of operation of the
new service at the outset is from
Dallas and Ft. Worth to Wichita
Falls. from Ft. Worth to Denison
and Dallas to Denison via Green
vile. from Dallas and Ft. Worth
to Temple, and between San An
tonic and Smithville and Hous-
ton and Smithville. The railroad
part of the new service will be
handled in its present package
cars.
The chief purpose of instituting
this new service through the Mis-
souri,. Kansas & Texas TranSpor-
tation Co., is to preserve and ex-
tend the present less carload ser
vice of the railroad company.
Initially, this service is confined
to q of the larger Texas COM
munities served by the Katy, but
the tariffs of the transportation
company are so devised that the
service can be extended to other
communities as desired.
Equipment Good
It is the present purpose of
the railroad company to confine
its activities of this character
to the State Of Texas, but if
conditions make necessary or de-
sirable the company is prepared
to extend the service to Missouri,
Kansas and Oklahoma, the other
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