OCR Text |
Show RAILROADS PREPARING TO MOVE GOAL AND GRAIN In speaking or raiiroad activities, (Director General Hines has issued ihe ; follow ing Particular attention Is beinK paid I by the railroad administration to fur-jnishing fur-jnishing necessary equipment for the ; transportation of coal and of ?rain j It was decided early in Septemb r that in order to meet the coal requirements require-ments of the country it would be nec-essary nec-essary for the railroads to move a minimum of 11,000,000 tons of bituminous bitu-minous coal a week. For the week ended ScptcmV,cr lnth, 11,046,000 tons were iranspoi u-u, lor the week ending September JUih, 11,248,000 tons were transported and for the week ending September L'Tth 'he railroad administration estimates that approximately 11,575,000 tors j were transported. Conditions have developed de-veloped which have made it nece.-san to handle the wheat situation m an I emergency way This situation has been complicated by the tact that ' many of the elevators are full and it I has been impractical to move additional addi-tional wheat to points where the (levators (le-vators are full, because to do so would cause large numbers of railroad cars to be filled with grain which could not be disposed of at destination and this would result practicallv in taking such cars out of transportation service and using them for storage and depriving the public generally of cars which are badly needed for business of evefy sort. The railroad admluistratlon is fol- consultation with the grain corporation corpora-tion and the director general will consider con-sider the matter personally at a met t-mg t-mg of interested railroad of f 1 1 rs, representatives of the grain corporation corpora-tion and others to be held at Chi go this week. As to the situation in Texas where the wheat conditions arej particularly acute because the crop is approximately 25.000,000 bush,.,; larger than last year and where ihere is a scarcity of local storage facilities arrangements are being made through I the grain corporation lor the send'ngl of additional cargo vessels to Oalves-I ton and arrangements have alri adj been mde for Increasing the numbt t of permits for carloads of wheat inio Galveston from 50 to 100 per day. Par- J ticular efforts are being made to iroei wheat which Is on the ground and is I thus exposed to the weather 00 |