The Sentinel=record., 1911-05-28
.MAXEY STEEL
 RAILWAY TIE
ITS ,PRACTlcABlLITY, DURABLE TY, SAFETY AND GREAT ECON oMY WILL INSURE ITS ADoP- TON.
an Railroad Construction and Will Cause 1t to superside the Wooden Tie Now In Use--WiII Save One Third of the Cost of the Hoad.

l The United Gtates Steel Railway Tie Company, organized under the
 laws of Arizona, with home offices at Phoenix and Hot Springs Arkan-
 sas, has its stock on the market and
 is now really for business.
 This company begins operations
 under the most favorable auspices and the indications are will do a land vifice business from the start. It is trllthfully said that a good thing" needs only to be properly presented in order to interest capital. As timid as money is, it is always plentiful for investmene i'm an enter prise promising guol returns. A careful examination of the steel railawy tie to De seen in the office of k. B. l.. Maxey at "A 1-2 Central Avenue will convince the most skep. tical of its merits and of the fact that it must eventually supplant the wooden tie now in use. It's safety, flconomy, durability and simplicity. at once commend it to the considera- tion of all business men. Conserva- tive figures snow that it's use in rail- road construction will save at least one third of the original cost of the road and in the actua. cost of the ties, it will save, in round numbers s14Q0 per mile, which woull be, s1 100000 to road 1000 miles long. It requires about $500 wooden ties sse se ths mile and HOO steel ties. The former placed on the track and ready for use will average about $l 50 apiece. The latter, So placed, will
 average s3.50 apiece -1100 at that
 r.ice will cost $3.S50-S,5O0 wooden ties at $i.50 apiece will cost S5,250.. d difference of s1,400 to the mile In
 favor of the steel tie. These figures only apply to the difference in the cost of the ties themselves and are entirely exclusive of the estimate of
 the time anls labor saved by the use of the steel tie.
 The life of the creosoted wooden 1 tie is about six years The life of
 the steel tie is from fifty to one hundred yeans when properly galyan- | ized. In this last sentence is brought out the enormous saving in railroad construction sby the use of the steel | tie. And this is to be found in the
 fact that every six years on n average under sshie %eelen tie sys. tenn, about s5250 has 10 be expendes
 Tor new ties for every mile of rail
 road While under the steel tie sys- | tenn, all of this expense, after tse tie | is installed upon the roadbed, is
 saved for from fifty to one hundred
 years. So that if will be observed
 that upon road 1000 miles long, the
 steel tie will save in fifty years, in 1 the cost of ties alone, at the rate of $5250 per mile, every six years | s43, ,750,000. These figures at first
 glance are staggering, but they repre- sent the result of the most conserva- tive calculation based upon the
 actual cost of the wooden ties
 necessary to keep railroad 1000
 miles long in good condition for the
 time mentioned.
 The company has placed $100,000
 worth of its stock on the market at 1 fifty certs on the Joiiar, for q snort
 time, to raise funds with which tc
 have practical test made of the
 ties on tho roadbed, anil with which
 to begin the manufacture of the ties. The model has been examined by
 a number of railroad builders ant promoters. among whom, in this city,
 are Col. s. W. Fordyce and Messrs. l H. E. Martin and Ed Harain. They all speak of 1t in the highest terms.
 Col. Fordyce says it sas more merit taan any tie he ever saw and
 believes test will result in it's ap. proyal and adoption. Messrs. Hardin
 and Martin fully coincide with Col.
 Fordyce and ai that they can see
 no reason why it will not be uni
 versally adopted in railroad con struction. especially on account of it's durability and great economy.