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Show Losses Caused by Car Shortage. Tr.coma, Wash. Investigations Into tho lumber car' shortage by Interstate Map of Kingston and VIstaM Commerce Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, has dovelopcd facts showing the Northern Unciflc equipment to be entirely en-tirely Inadequate to handle tho lumper lum-per products of western Washington. Sawmill owners told how small mill concerns are- gradually being forced jnto bankruptcy, how the larger con-perns con-perns have sustained losses which will reach Into'' hundreds of thousands of dollars and how thousands of mechanics mechan-ics havo been thrown out of employment employ-ment by failure of the Northern Pacific Pa-cific railway to furnish cars enough to enable tho 750 working plants on their lino to market their product |