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Show KEEP FREIGHT CARS MOVING, IS OBJECT State Director of Commercial Economy Formulates Plan to Reduce Vehicle Idleness, POCATKLLO, Tda., July 2S. Plans for keeping empty freight cars in Idaho in more constant use, in order that there may be no unnecesary delays in tbe movement of the enormous wheat crop of this state, have been formulated by 0. O. Haga, state director of commercial economy. Reliable estimates of Idaho's wheat crop place the yield at nearly 2M'0O,0i0 bushels, as against 1 S.OOO.noo hi.ushels last year. Idaho elevators can store less than 1. " per cent of this crop, and as but few farmers have made arrangements for storage faeilit bn the balance must he promptly shipped out. The organization of motor truck routes for the movement of wheat from communities commu-nities remote from railroad transportation transporta-tion is being planned. Farmers from the Arbon valley, located over the mountains about thirty miles .southwest of this city, have bfen considering such a project, as the estimated crop of nearly haif a million bush '.'Is which si ion Id be raised in tha t valley will have to be hauled to Michaud, on the Oregon Short Line, a distance of from twenty-live to thirty-live miles. |