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Show 150 SPECIAL TRAINS CARRY CALIFORNIA BARLEY The big railway officials of the country have their eyes on the California Cali-fornia overland railroads with the closest attention these days because the California roads for the first time in history are performing without mishap the task of hauling over 150 special trains aggregating 5000 cars loaded with 200.000 tons of barley valued at $8,500,000 for the allies. This is the story of the feat as it is being told today. Another order from the allies for 100,000 tons of barley from the California Cal-ifornia 1917 crop at a price of near $45 per ton. or something like $4-500.000. $4-500.000. is being filled. This is in addition to their first order or-der for 100.000 tons of approximately approxi-mately $4,000,000, or about $40 a ton. Under orders from Washington. D. C, the Southern and Western Pacific Pa-cific and Santa Fe roads are niBhlng these shipments to the Atlantic Coast ports In 5,000 cars. In the time al-j lowed for the large consignment, valued at $8,500,000, it is the heaviest heavi-est movement of freight that ever left the state, and it is taxing the facilities of the overland railroads to the utmost to make the delivery as required. The total order represents one-fifth one-fifth of the estimated billion-ton crop this season, and the barley farmers of the interior are reaping a financial harvest from the entente's enten-te's resident purchasing commission in New York, which is spending the money required. Up to date ninety special trains have departed and sixty more are to go. Only 'once since the war have the roads had to use special freight trains to an unusual extent. That was in 1916, when they handled nearly 10,000 tank-car trains filled j with gasoline and distillate. Cal. Ex. |
