Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-28 | Page 10 | Car Loading Contest Conducted by Railroad

00 Car Loading Ccntest Conducted By Railroad To aid In the heavier car loading! campaign which Is being waged all) over 1 he Pacific coast by such organl-, x-itiona as the Good Railway Service iirsoclittlon of Cullfornla. Agent F K Nichols of the Southern 1'ucific rum-pnny rum-pnny announces that his company has decided to offer cash prizes 10 all Its agents In a car loading contest that will start August 1 and continue for three months First ptixc of $50 and a second prize of $20 will be awarded to stations 011 the Pacific svsieni which show the heaviest loading In each of 17 different commodities. An additional addi-tional prize goes to the agent who makes lha greatest Improvement over his record for the corresponding pe- 11. "I uf litis. Five credlta nll be al-I al-I lowed each station for each ton per I cur Increuso over the system average toi corresponding period of 1918 and .two Ofedttl for each per cent of In-I In-I crease loud to capacity and leaser Increases In-creases In proportion. Award will be mi, do to agent ut station earning the j highest number of credits for each commodity considered. General Manager J H. Dyer In send-j send-j Ing out the rules governing the con-.tist, con-.tist, calls attention to the necessity of -I inlnlng for the public the maximum efficiency from existing railroad facilities. facil-ities. "The Southern Pacific desln-s to do all In Its power to render efficient effi-cient service at a time when the num-her num-her of cars Is below the demand of the Pacific coast shipper Wc are now actually rendering more transportation transpor-tation servlee than wo did for the same period of last year. The average, car load for June. 1920, waa 34 tons ss compared witu 22 4 tons for tho, same month of 1919 and we handled a I much larger gross tonnage per mile,1 1 ut with the Increased business that j Is being offered we must still do bet-' Iir and we rely upon the intelligent' support of the shipping public."