. The Locomotive . e-years ago in the mines of Portugal,supposed to have been once used by the Romans for hydraulic purposes. The wheelswere eight in number, of wood, the spokes and felloes of pine, and the axle and its sup-port of oak. They are supposed to exceed 1,450 years of age, yet the wood was in aperfect state of preservation, having been thoroughly immersed in water charged withthe salts of copper and iron. A similar instance occurred in San Domingo, when an oldwooden wheel was discovered in a disused copper mine. How long it had been there isuncertain, but it was completely preserved
. The Locomotive . e-years ago in the mines of Portugal,supposed to have been once used by the Romans for hydraulic purposes. The wheelswere eight in number, of wood, the spokes and felloes of pine, and the axle and its sup-port of oak. They are supposed to exceed 1,450 years of age, yet the wood was in aperfect state of preservation, having been thoroughly immersed in water charged withthe salts of copper and iron. A similar instance occurred in San Domingo, when an oldwooden wheel was discovered in a disused copper mine. How long it had been there isuncertain, but it was completely preserved, owing to its having absorbed considerablequantities of iron and copper. The preserving qualities of these minerals for the impreg-nation of Wood is well illustrated in the mines of Hallien in Austria, the timber usedbeing the same which was originally introduced anterior to the Christian era, which iseven now in a very perfect condition.—Northicestern Lumberman. 156 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [September. Charter Per-petual. Issues Policies of Insurance after a Careful Inspection of tie Boilers: COVERING ALL LOSS OB DAMAGE TO BOILERS, BUILDINGS, AND MACHINERY, ARISING FROM Steam Boiler Explosions. THE BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY INCLUDES ALL KINDS OF STEAM BOILERS. Full information concerning the plan of the Companys operations can be obtained at theOOH^ZP^JNT^S OZFFIOIE, HARTFORD, COISTN. Or at any Agency. J. M. ALLEN, Prest. W. B. FRANKLIN, Vice-Prest. J. B. PIERCE, Secy. Board of J. M. ALLEN. President. LUCIUS J. HENDEE, Fire Ins. Co. FRANK W. CHENEY, Asst. Treas. Cheney Brothersi Silk Manufacturing M. BEACH, of Beach & PHILLIPS, of Adams Express M. BARTHOLOMEW, Prest. Amer. Nat. W. H. JARVIS, Prest. Colts Fire Arms Manufacturing O. ENDERS, Secy /Etna Life Ins. T. PARRY, of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia. Directors. Gen. WM. B. FRANKLIN, Vice-Prest. Colts Pat. Fire-Arms Mfg. Co. • GEO.
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