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Excerpt from A Determination of the Comparative Values of Cross-Ties of Different Materials In order to supply the increasing demand for timber, an enormous amount of it has to be out.most of this is used for building material, cross ties, fence posts, telegraph poles, etc. In l906, the railroads of the United States alone purchased ties, at a total cost of -an average of 47 cents per tie.in l9o5, the number of ties purchased amounted to about less than in l906, but this does not necessarily mean that the demand for ties is increasing at the rate of per year.from these figures we see that the amount of timber cut from our forests each year is enormous, and at the rate at which railroads are now being built and new industries introduced, the demand for timber is bound to increase even faster than it has in past years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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