You. will also ask. Wlhy the car shortagO-? H.ere. are. some of thereasons: Foreign. trade has increased 100 per- cent .- domestic trade has increased 50. per cent. great numbers of cars are used- transferring parts and- material: before asetumbling. or manufhcturing begins. the extraordinary high cost and! scarcity of steel and materials and labOr . i stead of 500.000 emigrants to draw from for labor. there has been but few. we havd. been and are now supplying foreign natiobs with. cars-. we are buil4ing 400 miles of railroad in France and equipping it with cars I and locomotives. 8.997 freight cars are under order for France. and 914 locomotives are to go to the same place. to be used with our Army. The president of one of our large railroads penetrating the coal fields of the Middle West. wrote me this week that a hundred million dollars. the adnount I have a sked the Govermient to use. would build a hundred thousand freight cars. I think. under the speedingup process. it will cost perhaps $1.500 per car. which would give us 65.000 cars.
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