The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-12
Life of Railroad Tics.

Life Of Railroad Ties,
The annual demand for railway ties
Is 800 for each mile of track and the
average lie of a tie is seven years.
1t is an unusual acre of forest that has
300 trees that will make three ties
each, and 1t takes fifty years to grow
n tree that will make three ties. There.
fore, twenty-five acres of forest are
necessary for every mile of track.
Electric railways included. there are
in the United States about 100000
miles of road.
Compatriot OF Brownirq's.
Robert Browning. who during his
llfctines was a persistent visitor at
art exhibits. said one day to friend
whom he met on such an OCCASION
The Chinese ambassador is here.
have been introduced. and a member
of his suite was specially mentioned
as a poet. | asked him what kind OF
verse he wrote, and he said he prac.
ticcd the composition of enigmas. BY
Jove.' | thought. "a brother of my
own"
Value Of Petroleum Fuel.
In tests OF petroleum fuel for pas.
senger locomotives on the Florida
East Coast railroad, which is as level
as the sea il parallels. il required
six and three.quarters gallons pc.'
mile run. This showed 1872 gall,ns Z
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the Boston & Maine railway the icl,.
err engire at the Hoosac tunnel, work
ing on grade of forty.two per mile,
! showed liO gallons of oil equal to q
ron of coal.
Device to Stop Trains.
novel device Is being tried tor
automatically stopping train. A
double dial is attached to one of tao
! driving wheels; this registers the
| number of miles Another part of tn
dial Is fitted with a series of stops. ar
ranged to coincide exactly with the
distance of each station from the pre-
ceding one. AS the train runs into
the station zone the stop acts on {,
throttle valve and pulls up the train
within the specified limits.
The Most Valuable Oats.
Records OF ten years experience
with seventy-one varieties of oats al
the Ohio agricultural experiment sta
/ ton are summarized as follows:
These experiments show that yatic
ties of the Welcome type of oats have
given the largest average yield PEI
acre and heaviest weight per meas
ured bushel; American Banner, I'm
proved American, Colonel and Clydes
dale taking the lead.
sdison's First Check.
The first check that Thomas A. Edi
son ever received was for $4,000. Il
was in payment for his invention Of
the ticker, for which he had expected
to receive about $1,000. He was ST
overwhelmed by the thought of hi.
fortune that after he had cashed hi!
check he put some of the money il
each Of his pockets. and slept tina
night with his clothes on, so that h,
could feel 1t whenever he awoke.
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Four Varieties Of Projectiles.
Four classes of projectles are used
in the United States navy-armor
piercing projectiles for use against
armor. common shell for use against
unarmored or very thinly armored
parts, shrapnel for service against eX
posed detachments of men a consid
cradle distance away, and canister
which is employed against detach
ments of men lacking protection with
In close range.
virginia's Greatest Sons"
The state of Virginia has selected
George Was ington and Robert f
Lee as her two greatest sons, whose
statues should be placed in statuar,
hall at Washing on. When the mem
DRY of the civil war is little Older
men will wonder that Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison ant
James Monroe should all have beer
passed over for Robert f. Lee.
Valuable Book Sold.
The Gaelic version of Knox's Lit
urgy, which was sold in London fol
$500, belonged to the Duke of Ar
gyll 1t was printed in Edinburgh b,
Robert Leprevik, April. 1867, duodeci
mo, and appears to be the copy re
ferred to by Lowndes as being "ir
the possession of the Duke of Ar
gyll' 1t wants the signature but /,
| Is otherwise perfect