This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...to supply a single set of ties. Such a set has to be replaced about every seven years, and thus it is that the railways rank among the greatest consumers of wood in the land. Poles and Piling.--Long, slender poles of chestnut, white oak, cedar, and other durable kinds of trees are often best sold as telegraph and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...to supply a single set of ties. Such a set has to be replaced about every seven years, and thus it is that the railways rank among the greatest consumers of wood in the land. Poles and Piling.--Long, slender poles of chestnut, white oak, cedar, and other durable kinds of trees are often best sold as telegraph and telephone poles and for piling. For these purposes long, straight, and durable sticks are wanted. They run from twenty-five to fifty feet in length, with an upper diameter from five to eight inches. The telegraph poles must be peeled. Piling pieces, which are driven in the ground for support of bridges, and even houses, are generally preferred with the bark intact. The price paid for this class of timber is generally good, ranging from two to ten dollars apiece; but it is customary to find a buyer beforehand, to avoid having to store such timber for any length of time. Mining Timber.--In the neighborhood of coal and other mines, many owners of woodlands find a good market for a variety of logs to be used as props and other supporting timbers. Most of this material serves to hold up the earth in the shafts or tunnels, and quite a variety of sizes as well as kinds are employed. Since wood decays very rapidly in mines, the more permanent structures are usually built of durable woods, such as oak and chestnut; but in other parts, or in localities where durable woods are costly, such perishable woods as pine, maple, birch, hemlock, etc., are employed. The logs are commonly delivered in the rough, and are sawed and fitted by a special sawmill at the mine. Export Timber.--Occasionally special prices are offered to woodsmen for large, choice logs of walnut, cherry, yellow poplar, and other kinds of timber, to be shipped abroad. Export logs are graded mostl...
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