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Show i STEAM RAILROADS mm m Eighty-four Millions Were Required Re-quired by Railways. Last Year. THIRTY-SIX PER CENT USED IN BUILDING NEW TRACK Facts Gathered by Forest Service Serv-ice of Department of Agriculture. Probably no product of the forest has been tho subject of more discussion nnd diversity of opinion than tho annual consumption of cross-ties in the United Statos. The following statements arc made possible by the almost unanimous co-operation of tho steam railroads with tho forest sorvlco In furnishing tho necessary neces-sary data. Whllo these statements are nearly completo for the purchases of cross-tics by steam transportation companies, com-panies, thoy nro below the total number of cross-lies used, slnco no reports from electric lines aro included. Reports From Companies. Tho ilgures given nro baaed upon reports re-ports from 7W companies, having an aggregate ag-gregate trackago of 27S.2iJ2 miles. Since, uccordlng to Poor's Manual for 1D03, Iho total trackago of tho railroads in the United States is 203,037 miles, it follows that the in Ilea go reported Is 95 per cent of tho total. Switch lies havo been figured fig-ured Into Iho equivalent number of cross-ties. cross-ties. , . Tho total number of ties reported Is So.051.C00. of which 22.5C0.O(j, or 30 per cent, were to bo used for tho construction construc-tion of new track. On this basis the tolal number of ties used bv tho steam railways would bo M.-ICO.W), representing nearly 3.000,0),000 feot of lumber, board measure. Cross-Tics Purchased: 1905. c 2.2 o S 3 r -30 g. fc Kind. 5 : : j j P. C. P. c. Onlc 33.05S.000 17.6 SS.l 11.9 Pine 17.rn.001) 21.9 67.3 32.7 Cedar C.911.000 S.7 G3 3 .l Chestnut I.67S.0-W 5.S 65.5 S0.5 yir 3.4S5.OO0 4.1 30.8 60.2 Cypress 3.3S3.000 -t.2 M.O 11. S Tamarack 3.333.000 .T W-0 1.0 Hemlock l.fi7r..0W 2.1 ?3.1 6.6 All others l.OM.000 L2 76.0 21.0 Totalu Sfl.051.000 100.0 The per cent of the total number of ties of each kind obtained from the various regions Is as follows: Source of Supply. REGIONS. 5 ' O r " H tCO CO K2 tL 5 315 O Kind. I, Sis- 0) i. . : : a : - : : p : : o : : r : g : 8 : : a : : : s : : m ; I Per Cent. P. C Onk 12 33 51 1 1W Pino SI .... 4 10 5 100 Cednr 11 SS .... 1 10") Chestnut 53 3 1 100 Fir .: 35 65 100 Cypress 100 100 Tamarack 1 91 7 1 100 Hemlock 7 93 100 All others 16 7 1 5 14 57 100 Preservative treatment was given to 7.C15.CO0 ties, representing nearly 10 per cent of the total number reported. Although Al-though the species of limber treated havo not been sepnratcd In most cases. It Is safe to say that almost all of tho ties treated were soft woods. Tho regions referred to in tho preced-In preced-In tablo Include tho following States: NTorth Atlantic States Now England States, New York, Pennsylvania, Now Jersey. Delaware, Maryland. Southern States Virginia, North Carolina, Caro-lina, South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi. Louisiana, Arkansas, Arkan-sas, Texas, Indian Territory. Central States Ohio. West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri. Lake States Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Min-nesota. Rocky Mountain States Montana. Idaho, Wyoming. Nevada. Utah. Colorado, Colo-rado, Arizona. Now Mexico. Pacific Coast Slates Washington, Oregon, Ore-gon, California. |