Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-14 | Page 1 | Cars of Butter Sent to Russia

CARS OF BUTTER SENT TO RUSSIA Chicago Rushes Twenty-five Carloads to New York to Be Sent Out in Single Consignment. New York, Jan. 14. As showing the heavy shipments of food supplies now being made from this port to Russia, it was stated today that a special train of twenty-five cars loaded load-ed with butter, was rushed here from Chicago within forty-eight hours in order to be shipped on board the steamer Czaritza, another vessel leaving leav-ing yesterday for Russia. The amount of this shipment is understood to have exceeded all records for a single sin-gle consignment. This is believed to ba .tS first American-made butter, ever stripped to Russia. Dealers say that America has butter but-ter to spare and that they are anxious to extend their exports as the holdings hold-ings of storage butter in refrigerating plants throughout the country are heavier than a year ago. The report of the Associated Warehouses Ware-houses on January 1 showed there uere in forty-five leading houses, 35,-338,000 35,-338,000 pounds of butter in storage, an increase of nearly ten million pounds over the supply stored one year ago oo