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Show Evidence of Prosperity. CHICAGO. Sept. '1. Increasing agricultural. agricul-tural. Industrial and mining activity Is Indicated by advance sheets of the fort-nightlv fort-nightlv statement of car surpluses and shortages compiled by President Halo of the American Railway association. The .itatement will show that on September Sep-tember 1 the surplus of cars of nil kinds had been reduced moro than 40,n00. bringing bring-ing tho surplus down to a little more than 100.000 cars of all kinds. "It is Important to note," said Mr. Hale today, "(hut this season's reduction is six weeks ahead of last year's, indicating indi-cating that shortages this year will be greater than a year ago." |