“Fifty cents extra per thousand for loading,” came back replies.
“How many cars?” Jim countered. “When?”
Muskegon could ship two cars next day and one the day after. Traverse could ship three cars within three days. Reed City could ship four, on four successive days.
“O. K.,” wired Jim. “Let them come hustling.”
He had solved his car problem. Moran’s road could not stop cars shipped through. They would be set in on Jim’s siding and unloaded, and because Jim had requisitions in for cars as yet unsupplied, he could reload them and ship them out again filled with his product.
He called in Grierson.
“I’ve accepted an order for fifteen thousand pins for Argentine Republic. Price seventy cents New York. To be shipped in ten days.”
Grierson threw up his hands. “We haven’t the pins. We can’t get the cars to ship them.”
“We’ve got the pins, and the cars are on their way to us. Send your young man out after Beam.”
The superintendent came in presently.