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Show BETTER WIG f iMG CARS Better loading, which includes prompt unloading and capacity weight and volume, made 11,500 more cars available on the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific during the month of January. According to figures by Vice President Presi-dent and General Manager W. R. Scott, more than a million and a half tons of freight mare handled in 59,257 cars. If each car had been loaded with the same tonnage as in the fiame month last year, the traffic would have. taken 70,809 cars. More than two thousund of the cars saved were due to increased in-creased less -than -carload merchandise merchan-dise loading. The figures do not "include "in-clude oil in tank cars, which arc always al-ways loaded to capacity. |