Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-09-21

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Major Marlborough, 0ovsrnmsnt Dircc-
t>r of the Union Pacific Railroad, gives
IL sbll@RiQ iseresting particplsn q. the
progress Of Jhae read = asceS)Ained. by
him ON . rent psnqoAl Inspection: !,
IAborcn Nithin short tim havvl be-
come Abundant. NJ Henry, the General
Superintendent for the contractors, assured
NE that by the list of October next the
gesding and bridging with the exception
|of the bridge over Loup Fork whl lie
completed On the frxt ono hundred mira
think this assurance can be made good.
- the entire grading Of the first fjftv.
three miles will soon lie finished, and they
will be able to concentrate q heavy force
on the western end Of the contract. On
account Of the great scarcity and hgh
price Of lumber, they move their shantiss
aud camp tents westward on the work a.
it pfugfeIueA the pine lumbef Of some Of
the tents having been brought from the
Mississippi river entirely across the State
Of Iowa, over three hundred miles.
On our return to Omaha we passed over
and sxanined that portion Of the line
first s1ahlaA = betweea the stations 90
sUPEHsTDUcTuAK.
/ Material for track had been delivered at
Omaha II date of July 10th, - follows
1000 cross ties; 7,1S6 bars railroad iron
1880 railroad chair; 7s,0OO pounds spikes;
and on board Of steamers on the Missouri
river, between st. Louis and Omaha, $3.50
bars railroad iron; $40 railroad chairs
1850 pounds railroad spikes
In addition 70 the above, 10000 cross
ties arc delivered on the hanks Of the Mis-
souri, river, twelve miles above Omaha,
which fcbeing nfled down the river q
l rapidly a. possible. For this information
l am indebted to Mr. j. +. Henry Superin.
tendcnt in charge Of the work =
I am informed by the transportation
agents at Attsburg, that considerable iron
chairs and spikes are being shipped daily
and from what data have been able to
gather, sufficient spikes and chairs for the
first ninety miles. are at Omaha, and in
transit, and sufficient rails in transit and At
Omaha for sixty miles Of track
About onethird of the ties are oak and
black walnut, and the balance cottonwood.
The question Of kind and quality of timber
for ties is a very important one All rail
road men will readily admit that cotton
wood ties, without some kind of prep "a
ton, will not answer the purpose, or last
sufficiently long to warrant the expense VI
Having them. Tam assured that hard wood
ties cannot be procured in sufficient guam
titles, except at an enormous expense. To
meet this contingency the company have
erected on the river bank at Omaha large
building for burnctizing, with large
cylinder seventy five feet long and sixty
one inches in diameter, capable for receiv,
ing and holding $50 ties at time, and
burnetizing two patches, or 500 ties per
day, and expected to put it in operation in
a few days This establishment is under
the general superintendent of Major Lu-
Their s. Bent, to whom am indebted for
the following account Of it.
Burnett's process fm preserving wood,
etc, patented in England in 1888.
| Solution, chloride of zinc. First intao-
duced in the United States by the locks
| and canal companies at Lowell, Mass, in
| 1850 Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
timore Railroad Company used itsincc 1850,
with complete success.
EFFECT ON WOOD.
1t hardcns and improves its texture, il
enters into permanent chemical conbina-
ton with the litneous tibrcs, and does not
come to the surface ofthc wood by cfferves7
cence like other crystalizablc salts it pre-
| serves wood and other articles from the
adherence of animal and vegetable par
asitcs, and also from the attacks of in
sects
1t completely preserves wood from wet
and dry rot, and renders the wood unin-
flapmable, when used of certain requi-
site strength | am truly in hopes this
process will prove successful as it is a very
important matter to the road and the coun-
Itry. 1t was claimed by all the railroad
men with whom conversed in Nebraska
that the cotton wood ties hold q spik,
very WELL and some contend rs well as
oak.
The company have a substantial saw mill
at Omaha, II by so feet, with boiler and
engine house, ~ by 50 feet, nearly ready
to commence work. They have also two
portable saw mills on the river, sixty miles
above, and one twelve miles above Omaha,
entirely employed saving ties. With these
facilities, sufficient ties can be procured
and as speedily ~ they will be able to
burnetize and lay them on the track.
1t is proposed 10 lay $500 ties to each
mile, with ut least four hard wood ties to
each rail- l was informed by Mr.. Henry
that 800 gross tons of the railroad iron is
SO pounds to the linear yard, and the bal
ance 80 pounds to the yard 1000 tons are
mostly "a feet in length. and the balance
principally % feet long.
Colonel S. Seymour, the consulting en-
gineer, informs me that the company have
now two full corps Of engineers engaged
in making further survey through the
Rocky Mountains, west Of the head Of
the great Platte Valley. One OF these
parties is running west from the eastern
slope of the Black Hills, and the other
party is running cast from the Great Salt
Lake Valley. From information received
At Omaha, on the 10th inst, it is asccr-
tanned that the operations of these parties
are being very much embarrassed, by the
fact that hostile Indians continue their
| dcprcdations through the country over
which it il proposed to examine.
Sweet Corn N1olasscs.
The Dubuque Times states than Mr..
TI,o,noc Randol,h farmor Of nuh,n,1p