Show 1 MOTION ON THE MOVE Eastern Demand for Sheep Is a Surprise WILL BREAK ALL RECORDS t Railroads Taxed to Carry the Living Freight I Bad Winters and Low Price of Wool Given as the Chief I Causes Mutton Is king It Is the principal commodity on the railroads Just now The aos Increasing and the shipments af at I demand for sheep Is usually heavy this season but It Is larger this year than common Railroads are beginning I to experience some difficulty to furnish Block cars enough but there Is no danger dan-ger that there will be a congestion f such as was experienced last fall ROADS IN GOOD SHAPE The local roads are In better shape to handle stock shipments and have added to their equipment but In spite of this the demand for cars has been 1r heavy Last fall the Union Pacific I very Pa-cific was responsible for much of the congestion which prevailed Trains could not be handled and It was Im posfclble to get the cars back actor they had once been loaded and started on their Journey for the East This year there In no difficulty of this kind There I and I IB plenty of motive and equipment trains are hauled out of the way as to the be turned over fast as they can Eastern HarrIman Interests FLOCKS ARE SMALLER have The large shipments of sheep to rail been something of a surprise antici road officials as they did not pate anything of the kind The severe havoc weather of last winter created interests of the West I among the sheep the great losses from exposure yet In spite of been natural Increase has I ure the posure heavier than before In years This Is one reason for the present heavy shipments t ship-ments Flocks are being reduced by sending the sheep to market WHY THEY SHIP t Another reason for the large shIpments tj shIp-ments Is the setbacks which the sheep men received both with regard to the losses of the winter and through the reduction re-duction In the woo crop The loss which the sheep raisers have suffered I In this way Is being made up by shlp Lt pin to the Eastern markets It Is expected ex-pected by railroad officials that there will be a steady Increase In the shipments ship-ments until the end of the season and 1 that the volume of business In this line will surpass all former years There Is also a large shipment of cattle which ll Increases the demand for stock cars |