. Electric railway review . st Electric Company is a consolidation oftwo electric lighting companies and a mule car company,which latter line was electrically equipped some eight yearsago. The usual methods of construction then in vogue werefollowed, as the parties then controlling the company evidentlydesired to secure business with as little expenditure of money Improvements at Key West, Fla.^Ballast Used in Extensions. by their absence. It had been found that no untreatedwooden pole would stand the effect of the climate, nor wouldany kind of iron, unless galvanized, and no matter how-painte
. Electric railway review . st Electric Company is a consolidation oftwo electric lighting companies and a mule car company,which latter line was electrically equipped some eight yearsago. The usual methods of construction then in vogue werefollowed, as the parties then controlling the company evidentlydesired to secure business with as little expenditure of money Improvements at Key West, Fla.^Ballast Used in Extensions. by their absence. It had been found that no untreatedwooden pole would stand the effect of the climate, nor wouldany kind of iron, unless galvanized, and no matter how-painted, keep from rusting. In spite of faulty operation, for which the local manage-ment could not at all be blamed, the companys income grew,but operation developed extraordinary conditions, incident toclimatic conditions, such as the heat of the sun and thesoaking rains, the deposit over everything of salt by theatmosphere, the nature of the coral soil of the streets, theinability to procure any water by any means suitable for.
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