Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1909 — BIG SHIPMENT OF STEEL [ARTICLE]

BIG SHIPMENT OF STEEL

Four Hundred Caro Required For Pipe Going to California. Omaha, June 1. —Harriman steel flat cars and other heavy freight equipment are being assembled here in order to handle a 14,000 ton shipment of steel oil pipe now en route from Zanesville, 0., to points In the San Joaquin valley for the conttructton of a great oil tank line to San Francisco bay. This is one of the heaviest tingle shipments ever sent over the Hardman lines by one manufacturing establishment. Tq handle the big shipment successfully will require between four and five hundred cars.