Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-29 | Page 3 | Car Shortage Problem due to Vanish

GAR SHORTAGE PROBLEM DUE .TOVISH" Calvin Reports Union Pacific Pa-cific Prepared for FaU Rush ' i Tha ear enortagfc question, - a problem which for th past four year haa been of widespread concern con-cern to the Bhipperaovr tha entire United State, will oeaae to b debated de-bated and pass Into Insignificance if tha railroads maintain their present efficiency In furnishing cars to ths shippers. 'i That waa th opinion of FJ. K. Calvin, vice president n charge of operation of the Union Pacific system, sys-tem, who arrived hsrs today from the Northwest and I an routs to Omaha. Mr. Calvin atated that tha Union paclflo haa a aurplua of II.-00 II.-00 box rara at present to b used In fall shipping movements. ," cannot aay whether there will 'be a car ehortage thla fall," he said. I "If all th shippers start loading at one It I Impossible for any railroad rail-road ta handle traffla without congestion, con-gestion, but if. ths traffla to normal ther will be no serious car abort-age." abort-age." Mr. Calvin stated that for the I Mra Mas Meet e aval rea western Idaho, Oregon, Washington and tha Northwest would mora to tbe Pacific oosst rather than by rail ta the East. Before 114 nearly all the grain In that area went westward west-ward and then waa shipped by boat, but with the paralyaation of shipping ship-ping during the war the grain waa shipped by rll eastward, he explained. ex-plained. Tha ahlpplng induetry is getting back to normalcy and consequently con-sequently It will resums Its sctlvlty of handling tha grain of th North-west. North-west. "The regional committee, composed com-posed of railroad carriera. shlppere representatives and tha public, haa had a beneflolal effect In alleviating the car shortage and helping to govern gov-ern the surplus box cars In tha country," Mr, Calvin aald. Aaksd about any relationship the Union Pacific might arrange with Joseph H. Toung. former receiver for the Denver a Rlo Grande, Mr. Calvin atated that he did not know of any agreement that had been ar-rangedwlth ar-rangedwlth tha Union Pacific. 1 U Reynolds, former aecretary of tbe Klwanls club and now private pri-vate aecretary to Mr. eTalvin, arrived ar-rived with tha vice president and exclaimed that ha waa glad to be back In Salt Lake. "1 am going to maks my horns hers as much a possible," ha aald.