"Usually, at this season of the year, there will be a hundred or two empty cars on the siding at Willets--with other hundreds on the way.

This year the siding is empty, and Jay Simmons says there are no cars to be had.

He tells me there isn't an empty car in the state.

Caldwell, of the Star, and Barthman, Littlefield, Corts, Sigmund, and Lester--who are ranch owners near Willets--told me to come down here and ask you what can be done.

I'm asking you." Hatfield eyed Lawler steadily as the latter talked; his gaze did not waver as Lawler concluded.