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Show COAL SHORTAGE PREDICTED BY ROADS That a scarcitv of coal may be expected ex-pected in Ogden this autumn and win i.ter due to the lack of coal cars on the' Union Pacific and Oregon Short i ino .jr.H rii,. iln in the failure of coal dealers to take advantage of the present slack freight business1 w hen cars are available, is the opln- j ion of local I'nlon Pacific officials.! It Is pointed out that almost no coal is being stored in anticipation of the ' winter s demand and that, when the demand does come, the railroads will be short of cars to haul the coal because be-cause of heavy freight business is, expected The dissolution proceedings against the Union and Southern Pacifies have' ! also had an effect. The Southern ' Pacific companv owns thousands of coal cars, about aa many as are own led by the Oregon Short Line and Un ion Pacific combined wuue un year these cars were scattered over the Lnion Pacific and Short Line as well as the Southern Pacific, now they are almost entirely in Southern Pacific territory To encourage the coal dealers to store coal during the slack freight mouths. It has been the custom of the railroads to gie a better rate during the time there are av ailable cars Even with the decreased rate, ' there were so few dealers who took advantage and bought coal during the j summer that the company decided to discontinue the practice and this year no decrease was allowed s a result re-sult there has been a decrease In the amount of coal shipped from the mines to retail dealers during the summer months Reports c.mlng Into the railroad offices from all parts of the United States are to the effect that crops will be exceedingly heivy this season sea-son Already, the orders have been placed for cars to move the produce to markets and the railroads anticipate antici-pate exceedingly heavy business From present Indications every car available will be In service and more rolling stock will be needed than can he supplied |