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Show SHORTAGE OF CARS FOR Beet growois of the northern part of Weber county are complaining over the scarcity of cars to handle the crop. Digging has been good for the past few dave and large quantities o? beets have been ln-rvestcd aud them arc great piles of them on the ground waiting for cars All the beets raised In Weber county coun-ty north of Ogden river, the fanners uy, are shipped lo tho Logan ami Lewiston factories, but the Oregon Short Line has failed in the last few days lo furnish transportation. Thero are many cars on tho side tracks at Cache Junction that the company is unable to move Officer.-; of the sugar company sa that there Is somewhat of a congestion conges-tion of traffic at this time, but that they expect relief in the early part of next week. The sugar company will put forth eery possible effort to get the lallroad company to relieve the situation to the end that the beets The southorn section is doing better bet-ter in the matter of car facilities, the Rio Grando furnishing a special train each day to go to the laading places along the road and move (ho ciop to tho factory There are about 6,000 tons of beets at the factory now It is said by beet raisers that Weber We-ber county this year will produce S5,-000 S5,-000 tons of beets. The capacity of the factory is only about 70,000 tons Tho surpiiits of 15,001) tons will bo moved to other factories |