Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-10-29 | Page 9 | Improvement Noted in Car Situation

IMPROVEMENT NOTED IN CAR SITUATION BOISE, Ida, Oct. 28. 'There is a deefded Improvement in the car situation,-' said George E. Erb, president presi-dent Of the public utilities commission, lilday The commissioner looks for daily Improvement from now on. although al-though there Is still a serious short-Ugl short-Ugl In practically all points of tho state, he says. His belief that more cars will be available in the future is based partly on telegrams from railroad officials ti lling of the number of cars placed Friday and partly on a telegram rc-ceived rc-ceived from the interstate commerce commission saying that eastern rail-1 roads had been given instructions to rUsh all empty box cars to wcstern United States to carry the produce to market. In t le southern Idaho district Friday Fri-day there was no shortage of box ears, but orders called for 150 more dry refrigerator cars than the railroad rail-road was able to supply On thai daj In the district 45 refrigerator cars and 69 box cars were placed for loading