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Show v Additional Cart Given to Western Roadt Pterognlxlng tha necessity of providing pro-viding the Western roada with a eunpiy ef box ears sufficient to en-lb, en-lb, e them to give reasonable service In the movement of grain and other asncultural commodities during the summer and fall, more than fifty thousand cars have been allocated to vs esiern roads In excees ef last year, a report of the oar service division of the American Railway association states. 4 A year ago the Western railroads stsrted ths grain movement season with a fair eupply of box rare, but ewing to ths cumulative effect of the shop strike and the necessity of giving priority to the movement of roal following the resumption of coal mining in August, It wss not possible to maintain their supply at an adnquste figure. This year the . .railroads have started the orderly - return of cars to the Western roads In an effort to avoid fall congestion. Current reports show there le no diminution tn ths weeebound flow rf box care. For the week ended July 11 western line received at hirago and St. Louis alone a dally a veraxe of lift empty box cars from thetr testera connections. The report states that enly t.O per rent of the box care on Western West-ern lines July 1 were In need of repair, re-pair, compared with lt.t per cent a esr ago. Thla alone mean over venteen thousand more service-sole service-sole box ears on Weetern roads this year than on ths same dal last jeer. "The chief test of the adequacy of transportation In the Western states Is afforded by the eeaeonal movement of wheat and other grains starting after July 1. By reason of ths remarkable Improvement Improve-ment In the eupply of cars on the grain loading roads of ths West, I accomplished in the eleven weeks ending July 1. It was possible for these lines to hsvs mors than forty thousand box cars stored In the grain shipping territory ready for loading In advance of the crop. This Is probably three 1 1 mas aa many cars ss were available under the sa mi condltione laet year In spits of the fact that the total number of care on the Weetern lines were approximately ap-proximately the ssme both seasons." |