Excerpt from Canadian Forests: Forest Trees, Timber, and Forest Products In addition to the foregoing there are numerous other branches of trade that could not be carried on without the aid of wood, which, although it does not form part of their productions, is yet essential to their manufacture or development: such, for instance, as lime burners, brick makers, &c. Railroads are enormous consumers of wood. In building a new road the estimate is that ties are required for the mile, and 300 ties are annually wanted to keep ...
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Excerpt from Canadian Forests: Forest Trees, Timber, and Forest Products In addition to the foregoing there are numerous other branches of trade that could not be carried on without the aid of wood, which, although it does not form part of their productions, is yet essential to their manufacture or development: such, for instance, as lime burners, brick makers, &c. Railroads are enormous consumers of wood. In building a new road the estimate is that ties are required for the mile, and 300 ties are annually wanted to keep the mile in repair. Xvhen it is borne in mind that these ties are, for the most part, taken from sound hemlock, oak, larch or cedar trees, selected of a size just sufficient to furnish one or two ties only (the tree being simply hewn On two sides, and leaving the heart entire), the destruction of choice timber approaching a size suitable for sawing is immense. The timber alsoused by railroads in erecting bridges and trestlework and in fencing is a. Great item, and the consumption of wood for fuel by locomotives has attained such proportions that other kinds of fuel are being resorted to by many of the roads, owing to the high price and difficulty of obtaining wood, even where the roads traverse a partially wooded district. As an instance of the amount of wood so consumed, an official report shows that on the New York Central Railroad there is required for each twenty-five miles passed over by each locomotive one and three-quarters cords of wood, and this even is supposed to be one-third less than the amount actually burned by them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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