Show aa ll 11 N ft LO R it INS irac TI I 1 written i ren leor aitor he lh DALLY allow allow tho suggest to your jour tell reader ders the roll bety of constructing inclined railroad tracks itil ia oui canyons for the purpose or of 4 hauling ba tiling ores wood etc 7 they itil gri to 1 aloyed to ia placed id ia tile states anil and for haul ing aart larga ta a timber to saw mills one or ta ed being employed to laul haul tho the trucks trucia empty i inclined A now instead of horsepower gorec power being employed mp loyed for tint that pur purpose pote I 1 would a suggest u the llie p rac tic ab th ty of us n compressed air alzir t that purpose no so one who I 1 i ir u posted on OD tie the subject will doubt the convenience and cho tl of compressed tir air who has haa read re a the accounts account of the boring cebis tunnel through thealma the tho Alpa Alps a 1 diluco dil d of toma some eight englat m emilei iles in most of our canyons we hive have constant 11 streams real iii of cater water with heavy fall abes T best could be aued to force air ioto into reservoirs ta lobe be used to I 1 fill the compressed res sed air air len ngin gins s when and ud where e needed hare ib u another plin plan which ditty be cheaper and in eatery way letter belter the of 14 engine beof constructed that the momentum accumulated by the loaded train in ascending jhc thc reads would bould be jasd tt to charge eliares the engine with wilh a sufficient quantity to 9 move the tho bick back up the incliner incline which I 1 bel believe le yet cn can be readily accomplished by a peculiarly constructed engine which by the turning of a single patk is ia converted front irom an air engine into inlo an air pump and vinever vice versa a the cl charging i urging process consumes coBe unea tile the momentum zi acquired ii in which fleites as a break S A i yours youra etc X Y Z july 23 1871 |