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Show no CAR SHRTAGE TO BE DISCUSSED IN EAST SALT LAKE, Oct. 5. Seriousness H Df the present freight car shortage Bb In i tab and Idaho, peclall) as the HQIJ lack of transportation Is hatadlcap- 47H I 3 pii-k" ilf mat 1 . ' ' the pment of coal, will be Ml discussion with lh. interstate com- ' I mcrce commission eastern railroad Hfl heads and others, when II. W . Lriikett. 11 manager of the Traffic Service 1; ireau Hl of Ptah, reaches Washington. Mr. Bi PrlcJcett l it last night for the easi LHH With statistics showing that there PS are 88,000,000 bushels of wheat in LLiS' i t ih ani Idaho a litlng to moved, ; H a tii tha t the coal mln H lost approximately 160,000 tons that B might have been mined had there been B sufficient cars provided in September, HBVJ the seriousness of the situation, ac-1 HBVJ cording to Mr T'chett. is One that H concerns .every person in the tWo fl Ilailroad men are doing what they H can. it is said, to meet the conditions, H brut it still remains :r effective meas- ures to be taken to provide sufficient freight cars to move the coal and BBSSsV agricultural nrodubts. The I ia.h coal i I mines, Mr. Pickett said, operated last j i. ninth at only about (5 per Cent of Iheti capacity. Wheat growers arc finding il more and more difficult to find storage facilities lor what they thresh, for the' levators in not a few places aroi loaded to capacity and :.re unable to take mora grain until they can move , what they have on hand. Somewhat fr- similar circumstances were encounter- ! ed last year, but it is eaid that the present congestion is more serious than I that of III 9, The effect of a continued shortage ! of cars, which would seriously handicap handi-cap the marketing of the crops In Utah and Idaho, would serve still further to postpone much of the liquidation which, it has been anticipated, would! come with the harvesting and sale of) thes crops. |