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Show Cars for Cherry Crop in Utah Are To Be Provided Utah's public utilities commission has teir-graphcd to Max Theleu. director direc-tor of the division of public service o.' the U. S. Tailroad administration, asking ask-ing for refrigerator cars to transpor; the cherry crop. Mr. Thelpn replied that he had taken up the matter with the express company com-pany in Chicago Where tho rllstribution of cars is controlled and th?t h- bad asked for relief for the shippers in Prove as soon as poeBlble Mr. Thelen I rplalned that there s a serious short-la short-la erf of express equipment generally in Hi" country and that grat difficult) is being exprrienced in handling the cherry crop from all regions. Ono car was on hand at Provo last I Saturday and Mr Banning telegraphed I to W. L. Barnes superintendent of the refrigerator and tank car department Of the railroad administration at Chicago, Chi-cago, again setting forth the plicht of I the Utah shippers. He said that unless (ten cars were furnished to the Provo I shippers by July 3, a loss of between 10nio unci 1 would be ustain d ' An additional car was asked for Satur d if, three for Mrnda two for yeater-1 yeater-1 day. three for today and two for Thursday for the Provo district alone. Special Consideration Given. Mr. Barnes advised that the American Ameri-can Railways Express company was giving "special consideration' to the upph 01 cars 10 l tah pointa and asked that the matter be taken up further fur-ther with H. K Lockwood, Buperin undent of transportation for the American Railways Express company, at San Francisco. This had already bpen done by wire, and Mr. Lockwood was asked if the express compauv would not accept shipments loaded in freight refrigerator cars, properly equipped for passenger service, in such an extremity. Mr. Lockwood's reply was ' The demand de-mand throughout the country for passenger pas-senger equipped refrigerators Is far in excess of the supph I am doing ev- j erything possibh- to meet the .shippers' j needs generally. We cannot use freight cars In passenger service. "Have telegraphed Superintendent Crofton of this company at Salt Lake to intercept at Ogden fourteen cars for immediate use and will tr to arrange to furnish further equipment if it ia possible to do so " The express cars are on hand or In sight, and tho Utah cherry crop has ibeen saved In addition to the fourteen 1 ears diverted at Ogden. the Utah allot-1 allot-1 nient of one car in five passing through Ogden will about fill the bill for the handling of the crop for the remainder re-mainder of the season not only from the Ptovo district , but also from Ogden, Og-den, Brigbam City and other cherry .shipping points of Utah, with a pos-i ble car or two to spare for southern I Idaho, which also is seeking the east-ern east-ern market for ite cherries. |