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Show SHORTAGE IN CARS ON WESTERN ROADS Salt Lake, Nov. 12 Probably the most serious car shortage which has ever confronted railroads of tho in-termountain in-termountain country Is now at its height. The Oregon Short Lino and the Denvor & Rio Grande are oth short of cars. The Oregon Short Line cannot move the great grain crops along its lines. For tho first timo in tho history of tho Utah sugar industry, indus-try, beets are being loaded into box cars. The gondolas used in the beet trado aro in great demand in tho east on account of tho heavy steel and munitions shipments. The closing of tho Panama canal has forced tho Oregon Short Line to send moat of Its ox cars east, and tho railroads there are holding them and paying demurrage in order to give transportation facilities to their patrons. Tho Deover & Rio Grande is short of cars for the Utah coal fields. It was though there would be sufficient cars on the Denver & Rio Grande to handle tho coal, traffic from Emery and Carbon counties but tho road failed fail-ed to got all It needed. The cool , weather of the past low days has resulted re-sulted In a big incrcoao In orders and , the operating department is getting all coal carB unloaded as rapidly as possible and sending them to tho coal '. fields. , In order that tho Wyoming fields . shall havo all the cars" necessary to . move the coal traffic, tho Union Pacific Pa-cific system will seek bids on 1,000 steel cars within ten days. The c heavy local and short-haul traffic of I the Union Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande is held rcsponslle in a great measure by these roads for tho car ' shortage. i" ort- |