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Show FREIGHT CONGESTION THIS WINTER. Yesterday the Standard said that winter is coming on, with the possibility possibil-ity of a tie up of railroad traffic, and tho public was advised to prepare against adverse conditions in transportation trans-portation by getting in coal and other freight, the need of which can be anticipated. an-ticipated. Today B. W. Robbins, assistant general gen-eral freight agent of the Denver & Rio Grande, called on us to further urge the necessity of business men and others oth-ers in foreseeing the difficulties just ahead, having all goods, which they contemplate ordering for -winter stocks, started on the road without delay, and he is makin- a personal appeal ap-peal to tho shippers, in which he makes this statement: It is urged that it is most important impor-tant that all concerned co-operate in every way possible with the transportation transpor-tation lines throughout the country in moving tho greatest volume of traffic possible during the summer and early fall when the operating conditions are far less difficult than in the late fall and winter when blizzard and zero weather prevails. The prompt movement move-ment of material and supplies of all kinds, both war and commercial, Is essential es-sential to the winning of the war; therefore it is imperative that every effort be made to prevent a recurrence recur-rence of the congested conditions that prevailed last winter, with which every eve-ry shipper is familiar. It is urgently requested that the shipping public do Its utmost to move every pound of freight possible at the earliest possible pos-sible date from this time on- This is important because later on the demands de-mands of the government for material and supplies of all kinds for war purposes pur-poses may be so great as to mako it almost Impossible to obtain a stock of many kinds of goods, as is now the case with lumber. ' In order to relieve transportation facilities fa-cilities of as much traffic as possible next winter and to provent a recurrence recur-rence of the congested condition which existed last winter due to the great demand upon the railroads, Mr. Robbins makes the -following specific suggestions. 1. All industries arrange to store during the present summer months sufficient matgrial to meet their needs for tho coming winter. 2. That all wholesale concerns and distributors do their utmost to persuade per-suade their customers to take immediate immedi-ate delivery of goods ordered or required. re-quired. 3. The storage of fuel oil is of special spe-cial importance and all users of fuel oil should stock up for their own protection. pro-tection. It is desired that additional storage space be obtained and used whenever possible for factory products nearest to point of ultimate consumption. 5. Since the needs of tho government govern-ment departments are extremely heavy, and it has not yet been determined deter-mined what amount of transportation can be spared for commercial lumber, for the present at least, the question of early movement and storage of that commodity should be held in abeyance. abey-ance. Later, the matter of equipment for lumber will be taken up and ad-vincc ad-vincc given as to the amount of commercial com-mercial lumber that may be transported transport-ed with a view to giving all lumber yards some stock for use during the winter. no |