. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . chestnut, 5,000,000 of cedar, Railroad Ties. A patent has been granted to a Massa-chusetts man who proposes to make rail-road ties from leather. We hardly thinkthat leather is the material that is goingto solve the problem of railway tie-making,but the invention shows that people in dif-ferent walks of life are working on animproved material for railroad ties. Thereis an enormous quantity of ties used an-nually in the United States, and the de-mand for them is denuding annually agreat
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . chestnut, 5,000,000 of cedar, Railroad Ties. A patent has been granted to a Massa-chusetts man who proposes to make rail-road ties from leather. We hardly thinkthat leather is the material that is goingto solve the problem of railway tie-making,but the invention shows that people in dif-ferent walks of life are working on animproved material for railroad ties. Thereis an enormous quantity of ties used an-nually in the United States, and the de-mand for them is denuding annually agreat many square miles of timber land,and no systematic plan is followed to makenature remedy the waste. cnt time. It is estimated by railroad menthat about 400 ties to the mile are eachyear required for replacements; the aver-age number of ties to the mile is andthe average life of a tie is seven is therefore required on the present 000 of hemlock and tamarac, 2,500,000 ofredwood and 1,500,000 of cypress. Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, whois building a new railroad from Salt Lake. THREE-STORY HOUSE. WE.\T IN AT TOP STORY FOR BREAKF.\ST.
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