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Show u Special Egg Cars Carry Utah Produce Shippers Will Save $200 Per Load by Improvement Is Claim. The first of fifty new refrigerator cars, built especially for egg shipments ship-ments from Utah and Idaho to New York, went into operation Saturday, according to announcement made Monday by Lester C. Terry, manager of the Intcrmountain division of Gottfried Gott-fried and Marshall, egg distributors. The new cars, Mr. Terry declared, will save producers approximately $200 on every carload of eggs shipped to New York because it not only cuts the icing but at the same time makes it possible to retain the epg full and sweet. In place of the old bunker method of icing, the new car is equipped with metal brine tanks which take up only one half of the original bunker space. When the ice melts the water remains re-mains in the brine tanks and refrigeration refrig-eration is still attained by the brine. The car also eliminates the cost of bracing, In that It Is built to load the cases into one compact body, preventing pre-venting any jarring. Mr. Terry predicted that the poultry poul-try business In Utah would Increase from 50 to CO per cent in the next year. A service has also been arranged for the shipment of live poultry direct to N"w York in eight days. |