Show GAR CAR CHECK SYSTEM I INVENTED BY SALT LAKER I The Oregon phort hort Line railroad has plan of registering an and adopted a new checking its freight cars at the Salt Lake yard office Th The new system is the of C C. C F. F Muller inspector of transportation for the Oregon Short Line an anc the change installed led from theold the theold old old- to the new plan will enable the company to keep a complete handy record of freight business handled by bytho bythe bythe the tho yard office which is a great improvement improvement im improvement im- im provement over the old manner Formerly when a car entered the yards ards at Salt Lake it was written up Jumbo in In a II large lare book bool called the hook and a clerk wanting a record thumb nf of a car was compelled to through this book often losing hours houra of time The cars car's record was also written n in a R. R f second book o called a a aTrain aTrain Train book o and this often had t the to he gone through In order to get a It oars ears record But the new system is a It acard acard card ard record which shows on its face every fact necessary such as the and disposition the train oars ears ars arrival the conductor who brought it In and took Jt it out the time it cane carie and went t in f fact ct the card gives a complete record of the doings of every car that enters Sa Salt t Lake e on the 0 O. S. S L. L The Index cards are kept in a cabinet cab cabinet cab cab- inet met and are filed in numerical order po fO that they may be found in a brief space of time with no lost energy and the new system will not only result in ina I IR a R vast saving of time and work but it will give Iye the company a complete record of every detail of the movement I of freight cars through the Salt Lake S lt Lal e station This system has already alread been installed by the Southern Pacific at Oakland transfer Los Angeles and Roseville in addition to Salt Lake The new system has been copyrighted copyrighted copyrighted copy copy- righted and patented and already has has been leen een inspected by numerous officials since being installed here It is a a. a time and labor saving device and the simplicity with which it does the work Is wonderful It will no doubt be onla only a short time until most of the large stations in the United States will be equipped with the little time saver faver |