HOUSEKEEPING ENROUTE WAS THIS TRAVELERS PLAN

"How much rent do they charge for one of them apartments in the coaches?" inquired an old timer recently of E. R. Stinson, operatorcashier at Ontario, Cal.

He agreed with Stinson that he probably had in mind a compartment, but was some time in understanding the arrangement of charging so much for a certain distance for he was of the opinion "the apartment was rented by the week."

When he was assured that the Company furnished the mattress and all bedding necessary he went home to discuss the matter with "the better half." Next day he returned and purchased the tickets and Pullman space.

The day the trip was to be started the couple arrived at the station fully equipped to set up housekeeping in the "apartment." There were two boxes of home canned fruit, a box of groceries and other articles they considered necessary. "Best of all," says Stinson, "the old gentleman carried a coal oii lamp, chimney and all, explaining to the baggageman that they were not going to take any chances on the railroad not furnishing them with plenty of light."

WARNER PAID TRIBUTE AT

EMPLOYES' BANQUET

During the course of a recent banquet of Southern Pacific employes of the San Francisco Bay District, Elon L. Warner, formerly station baggage master at the Ferry Station, was paid singular tribute in an address by Station Master Wm. H Voiles. Mr. Voiles reviewed Mr. Warner's service of nearly half a century with the Company and when the veteran, recently placed on the roll of pensioners, was called on to stand he was greeted by an impressive demonstration.

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HE beautiful silver loving cup awarded each quarter to the division making the best showing in fuel oil conservation has found its permanent "home" on the Stockton Division. This division finished on top for the fourth quarter of 1923, having previously won the second and third quarters, and now the trophy becomes its permanent possession.

Portland Division is the only other division with its name inscribed on the trophy, having won it during the first quarter of the year.

The fuel saving performance of the Stockton Division during the past several months has been remarkable and speaks well for the interest and cooperation between supervising officers and employes in this important operating economy. This is the second permanent fuel saving award won by this division. The banner, which was vigorously contended for by the divisions during 1921 and 1922, finally found its resting place in the office of Superintendent G. E. Gaylord.

Stockton Division has by no means had a "walk away" in winning its honors in fuel conservation. So close was the competition during the last quarter that it was only after a diligent study of the fuel performance figures and a careful consideration of all factors involved in the conservation of fuel oil that the judges were able to make their decision. The excellent performance made by the Western, Salt Lake and Sacramento Division in both freight and passenger service and by the Shasta and Portland Divisions in freight service prove how hard the Stockton Division employes had to work to hold the title of champions.

A new silver trophy cup of similar design will be offered for competition.

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U. S. RAILWAY TAXES REACH $1,000,000 A DAY

"While the railways themselves have been making new records of various kinds another railway record is being made in a matter over which the roads have no control," says the 'Railway Age,' in commenting on statistics of the Interstate Commerce Commission for November, 1923, recently made public which disclose that in that month the tax accruals of the class 1 railways amounted to $30,386,092, or $1,012,870 a day.

"This was the first month in history when the tax accruals of the railways exceeded a million dollars a day.

"The steadiness and persistence of the increase in railway taxes regardless of all changes in the volume of business in earnings and in operating expenses," says the 'Railway Age,' "is illustrated by the following statistics giving the tax accruals in November of each of the last six years:

"1918, $15,910.000; 1919, $18,820,000; 1920, $22,343,000; 1921, $25,042,000; 1922, $27,284,000; 1923, $30,386,000.

"Since 1919 the taxes paid by the railways have regularly exceeded the cash dividends paid by them. In 1922, the taxes of the class 1 roads exceeded their dividends by about $34,000,000. The total taxes of these roads for 1923 are estimated at over $330,000,000 and if they continue to increase in 1924 as they did in 1923, they will amount this year to approximately $365,000,000. This would exceed the dividends paid by these roads in any year since 1914 and would be equivalent to a dividend of five per cent on all their outstanding stock.

"The taxes of the railways are now about 170 per cent greater than they were ten years ago."

Up at our boarding house there are two children, a boy and a girl. The boy is the living photograph of his father, and the girl is the very phonograph of her mother.-Ohio Sun Dial.

They'd Have To

Vital Statistics-If all the boarders in New York were placed end to end they would reach.-Frivol.

REDIT for the unusual stone

C carving

carving of a woman's figure found in the forest near Crater Lake during the preliminary survey work for Southern Pacific's new line from Kirk to Oakridge in Oregon, rests with Dr. Earl R. Bush of Cincinnati, according to statements made by the doctor recently to Robert McDowell, General Agent for Southern Pacific at Cincinnati.

The discovery of the "stone woman," as it was called, about one mile from Crater Lake aroused the interest of artists, scientists and the general public and there was considerable speculation as to whether the figure was fashioned by human hands or by the action of the elements. Finally a report was received that Dr. Bush had carved the figure and Mr. McDowell called on him to find out if the report was correct.

Dr. Bush is at present connected with the Health Department of the U. S. Veterans Bureau. During the early part of 1917 he was with the United States engineers as doctor on work they were doing at the mouth of the Columbia river. Later he was transferred to Crater Lake with the engineers, Roads and Bridges Department, and spent the summer and fall with them in the cabins just below Crater Lake and not far from the place where the stone figure was found.

Mr. McDowell in a letter to the "Bulletin" tells of the carving of the stone figure, as told to him by Dr. Bush, as follows:

"On September 30, 1917, Dr. Bush's family went out to Medford with those who were leaving Crater Lake in anticipation of the coming winter, the doctor remaining at Crater Lake with the engineers some short while longer.

"Dr. Bush is not a sculptor, and up. to this time had not attempted any work of this kind although he had always been fond of art as reflected in sculpture, with a kindred feeling that he had the ability to do these things. A summer spent in the vastness of the virgin forest, the weird fascination of days and nights on Crater Lake, was slowly but surely bringing out the latent artistic talent within him, and when he found himself alone after the departure of his family, instinctively he set about to give expression to this newly aroused desire and as yet unrealized gift he possessed. Finding in the party still remaining a blacksmith skilled in working in steel, he had a set of chisels made and proceeded to find a spot for his work. Having asked Dr. Bush if the location he chose had any special significance, he was frank to admit that it had none, the almost secreted spot meant to him only a place hidden from the eyes of his companions, he being loath to have them about while he made his experiment, the outcome of which was

doubtful. Then, too, the rock suited him, although he did not realize that he was going into granite and too, here were some fallen trees which formed a natural scafford as if put there by nature in anticipation of his coming.

"Dr. Bush commenced work on October 1, 1917, and being alone, spent the entire time while light was available, working the entire figure into the stone without the aid of sketch, drawing or model of any kind, but purely from an inspired vision of the subject, which came to him as an inspiration from the vast solitudes around him, and is, as expressed by him, 'the silent spirit of the forest.'

"He had been at his work possibly ten days when his companions, their curiosity aroused at his long and continued absences from their camp, investigated his comings and goings and soon discovered the reason therefor. By this time he had, however, progressed enough to cause them to admire rather than jest at his work and suggestions were made that he put a plate on the rock. Dr. Bush declined, howmake an expression through sculpturever, he was gratifying his desire to ing and wanted no other reward than

the pleasure of realizing his ambition. "The entire work consumed only the period between Oct. 1st and Oct. 19th, on which date Dr. Bush left the reservation for Medford to join his family. Consider that this was the first time he had ever attempted such work and a realization comes of the gripping power the vastnesses have on the human mind, for he frankly states he is sure under other circumstances and in other surroundings he would probably have failed to create his work.

"Dr. Bush's love for Crater Lake and the surroundings and which gave the incentive which drove out this latent gift can no doubt be readily understood by any who have marvelled and wondered at the beauties and mysteries of this delightful spot.

"It might be added that Dr. Bush claims the distinction of being the first white man to spend a night on Wizard Island, he camping there with his family one night during this summer of 1917."

An effort was made to obtain a photograph of Dr. Bush to be published with this article, but the doctor declined to furnish one, saying that he did not care for any personal publicity in the matter.

U. S. WAR RISK INSURANCE CAN BE RECLAIMED

There is stored away on the shelves of the United States Veterans' Bureau nearly $35,000,000.000 in perfectly good life insurance. Every man who was in the army or navy during the late war is entitled to his share. There is no catch to the Government is passing it out at the rate of about $7,000.000 per month. But there is a time limit in which claim may be made, and unless there occurs very shortly a most decided jump in the number of applications being received. Fillions of dollars will remain where it is never to see the light of day.

war was over.

Uncle Sam during the war sold his soldiers and sailors life insurance at cost with the right to keep it after the Nearly five mullion policies of $10,000 each were taken out. Cold figures show that this insurance cost the men on an average sixteen per cent less than the same insurance would have cost on the outside. In other words the veteran was able to buy from the Government for eighty-four cents as much and as good insurance as the non-vet paid a dollar for from private companies. Here was a clear savings to the service men runYet, ning into millions of dollars. when the war was over, about four mil lion men walked off leaving their share of this money-insurance is money, absolutely on the shelves of the Gov

ernment.

The Twelfth District Office of the United States Veterans' Bureau at 883 Market Street, San Francisco,_announces that men who carried Government Insurance during their service may reclaim it if action is taken at once. There are no penalties involved-no back premiums to pay-no red tape. There will be a rush of applicants SO quick action is urged.

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HE Atlanta territory covers a wide area over the southeastern corner of the United States, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and that portion of Florida which les south of Georgia. It extends from northeast to southwest in roughly parallel lines between the crest of the Allegheny mountains and Atlantic ocean, reaching from Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico.

The three principal railroads parallel the coast and each other in a general way; the Atlantic Coast Line being nearest the coast, the Seaboard next, and Southern farther inland near the foot of the mountains. Branches of these lines and other roads furnish cross lines to and from the ports.

The products of the territory fall naturally into zones in somewhat similar directions.

The southern-most zone includes southern and central Florida, and its principal commodity moving to points. on our rails is citrus fruit. This fruit in its natural green state is prohibited from entering California by law through fear of the transmission of tree diseases. But recently several concerns have begun to put up grapefruit in cans, said to serve every table purpose which the green fruit does, and this is admitted into California, several cars per month now moving. From the swamp

lands in this zone cattle have heretofore moved to our grazing lands in west Texas for hardening their fat on drier pastures in that region. Cigars from Key West and Tampa move freely to the west. Fuller's Earth is mined in this zone and shipped to the oil refineries on our lines. Fresh vegetables and early watermelons move to markets on our lines in season and the volume varies with the available supply from other sources to those markets, running heavily when adverse conditions prevail in southern California and Texas.

gion and laps on the peach section, but by the time they reach half way up the zone with sufficient maturity for shipping, melons commence to reach markets on our rails from nearby fields and the Georgia-Florida shippers can no longer compete, hence turn their whole attention northward, where the Georgia melon has quite a reputation. Peaches grown heavily from middle to southern Georgia find market for a number of cars in Texas each year. Shipments for the season just past were heavier than ever before. Canneries take care of the excess and the specimens not readily marketable in the green or fresh state, and later we have quite a movement of canned peaches to Texas.

Another product of this zone which moves in appreciable quantities to our rails is cane syrup, which is produced mainly in southwest Georgia, and which is provided with rates to Texas in special and advantageous groupings.

The zones begin to overlap at the northern edge of Florida, and the cotton country reaches from the northern tier of counties in Florida far into North Carolina. In normal times Georgia makes the heaviest production of cotton of any state except Texas. But in the past few years she had to take a back seat under the attack of the boll weevil. That scourge has been

the curse of the whole cotton growing section of the southeast for three years, but the cotton industry appears to be now emerging with high hopes of soon getting back to normal production, and that on a smaller acreage than before and a more sound and scientific basis of agriculture. Indeed, one county in a neighboring state just west of us has erected a monument to the boll weevil as the deliverer from one-crop bondage and is now devoting the surplus acreage to other much needed crops.

In the section around Griffin, Ga., near the cen

ter of the state, many acres are devoted to the planting of pimento peppers which are made into pepper sauce and shipped to points on our rails.

Tobacco grows in considerable quantity in south Georgia and Florida, used for cigars, and goes to our markets and made into same. In North Carolina, and extending into Virginia a much larger quantity grows and is manufactured, around Winston-Salem, Reidsville and Durham, into chewing and smoking tobacco, cigarettes and snuff, and shipped in such volume to Texas and California as to make it one of our largest and most dependable sources of tonnage. In North Carolina the tobacco industry is one of the foremost in the state. The value of the crop as an agricultural product, before it is touched by any process of manufacture, amounts to more than a hundred million dollars annually. In the state it is second only to cotton in crop value. And this state's total crop value of tobacco is greater than any other state; indeed, it is thirty per cent of the national tobacco crop value.

Leads in Tobacco

In the manufacture of tobacco North Carolina also leads the world. Its factories consume almost one third of all the leaf tobacco used in the United States. The state pays one third of the national tobacco taxes. It has eighteen factories capitalized at one hundred and thirty million dollars, employing fourteen thousand workers, with an annual output of two hundred and twenty-five million dollars.

The manufacture of cotton goods is by far the largest single industry in the territory. Most of the mills are located along the upper edge of the cotton growing belt, in what is known as the Piedmont section, literally au and near the foot of the mountains; and very few are southeast of a natural geographical line from Columbus, Ga., through Macon and Augusta, Ga.. Columbia, S. C., Monroe and Raleigh, N. C., below which there is not sufficient fall in the streams to furnish any water power.

These factories were not so located for their proximity to water power or

possible water power. And while many of the mills are turning at least partly to hydro-electric power as it develops, the textile mill building and location is older than (except in a few rare instances) and much ahead of the water power development of the region. That particular feature of the resources of the Piedmont country is just at its beginning and bids to go far in furnishing factory power.

Textile Mills

The country along a line from Atlanta, Ga., to Greensboro, N. C., is very thickly studded with textile mills. More than thirty are located in and about one town. Many places have a dozen or more. Several counties have thirty to forty. Georgia has one hundred and eighty-two, South Carolina one hundred and eighty-six, and North Carolina five hundred and thirty-two, making an even nine hundred for the territory. The older mills, built years ago, made only the simplest and cheapest cotton goods. Later they began to make better grades until now they turn out goods both woven and knitted which are equal to any made in New England. In fact, many New England mills have moved to this section. One factory further manufactures the fabric into automobile tires. In another factory the bales of cotton are taken in at one door and printed bags turned out at another ready for flour mills of the Pacific Coast, some printed in seven colors. A number of factories make cotton clothes of all grades from overalls up. One product of the region is absorbent cotton for medical purposes, and in sufficient quantities for movement to the Pacific Coast in carloads.

One of the most extensively manufactured commodities in the territory is furniture. The factories are located along the upper edge of the territory, near to the hardwood which grows in the mountains and foot hills. There are one hundred and twenty-five in the territory. The capital invested in them totals twenty-five million dollars. Their annual output amounts to fortyfive million, which is twenty per cent of all the wooden household furniture produced in the United States. These

factories employ ten thousand workers steadily.

At one place, High Point, N. C., there are forty of these factories. It is a fa rly central point in the furniture district and the office of the Southern Furniture Manufacturers' Association is located there. It is in a building erected by the association for the display of the wares of its members. This is the largest single building in the United States devoted to showing furniture. It contains 208.000 feet of exhibition space and cost a million and a quarter dollars. It is open the year round for the benefit of buyers who may desire to visit the market at any time. Two show seasons or expositions are held each year, and in January July, attended by more than a thousand dealers from all parts of the country.

Beginning in the cotton zone, overlapping it to some extent and extending beyond it to the north are several other zones of production, which likewise overlap each other at some places. There are a number of factories which make agricultural implements, some of which are used in cotton cultivation, such as gins and plows, and some of which go farther south, like cane mills. Farm wagons made here go even beyond local markets and formerly moved to Mexico. Saw mills and logging cars are also extensively made, as are mining cars and trucks. Several factories make automobiles and trucks. All such factories must necessarily be located near the wood, iron and coal supplies in the southern Allegheny mountains. Stoves are made at sev eral points and shipped into Louisiana and Texas. Cotton ties to Texas furnish a good tonnage at certain

seasons.

Street Car Industry

Street cars are made in North Carolina and shipped throughout the country. Iron pipe is made in the same state, but has not as favorable rates to the west as other districts. Coke is made at one coal mine in Georgia and moves to California quite largely.

There is a section in northwest Georgia which produces marble of the finest quality for interior finish of buildings and for monuments, ranging in color from almost entirely white to darker gray shades; and it moves from time to time to all points along our lines. There are three sections which produce granite which moves extensively to Texas and Louisiana: that part of Georgia around Stone Mountain and Elberton, that part of South Carolina about Rion, and a quarry at Mount Airy in North Carolina.

Patent medicine is made at several points in the territory and regular car load shipments are made to California distributing centers, with less than car load movements steadily to Texas and Louisiana.

The largest maker of bottling machines in the country is located at Bainbridge, Ga., and ships all over our lines.

Atlanta is the cross roads and main