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Show RAILROAD BUSINESS IS UNEQUALED. An englucer who runs between Ogden Og-den and Carlin says traffic is eo heavy , i hat any considerable addition wculd require the double tracking of ihe trestle across Great Salt Like. Tassrn gers trains, as a means of safet, are ' reduced In speed to 20 miles nd freight trains to 12 miles an hour crossing the great bridge, which, Witt) "meets," cuts down the number of trains that can be sent across the cut off in a given number of hours. With double tracking, the speed might be increased, in-creased, owing to the strengthening i the whole structure which the added piling and bracing would bring about According to Walker D. Hines, dirt tor general of railroads, the transpnrta tion lines throughout ihe country are doing a heavier business tnan ever be-j fore In a public statement, he Bays "The railroads havo more cars in j i-ctual service, after excluding cars' held out of service for repairs, tha. in 1917 or 191S- While the bad order car situation was greatly embarrassed b extensive strikes among shopman in August, the percentage of bad order J rnrs is now rarudlv imoroving. ' There was an Increase or 52.456 cars In serviceable condition between August 16 and October 12; 110 of .his Increase wore added in the week i ml-ing ml-ing October 4. While the freight business busi-ness is practically as heavy as ihls time last year, the railroad administration adminis-tration performing that business Is unavoidably un-avoidably deprived of many exceedingly exceeding-ly important aids which it v.a3 able to utilize last year Ono of these is :he zoning of coal, which last year com pelled consumers to take their coal from near by mines and thereby grr-at ly increase the efflcierey of coal trans portatlon. "This advantage has now necessarily been lost because the coal zoning was terminated last winter Anotho: is ".hat last year there was much heavier load Ing of many important commodities than it has been possible to secure this year, and the result Is that under existing conditions more cars ha e to be used for the same amount of tralfic than were nsed last year. "The fact that there is still a short age In rail transportation Is due to the condition that the amount of business offered is far In excess of the trans-jortatlon trans-jortatlon facilities of 'he countiy. This always has been true in this country, in times of heavy business in the au i umn months, except last year, when the matter could be and was controlled with an iron hand with a view so?el to war necessities. "At the same time, lailroad families fami-lies have not expanded to the extent required in the public Interest Even were not equal to the demands 'Mir Ing the war the addition of new facilities facili-ties was greatly restricted by scarcMy of material and labor. Since the Wat It has been impossible to enter upon or barry out any extensive program for enlargement of railroad capacity because be-cause of the uncertainty as to the status of railroads. The railroad ad ministration was not provided with money and therefore could not ornan ize or carry out any such programs. The railroad companies, in view of ihe uncertainty, were unwilling to provide the mone The result is that the 'all-road 'all-road facilities of the country are decidedly de-cidedly below what the traffic demands." de-mands." oo |