Show trickled IrIc kled railroad ties tics ten thousand thoi sand railroad ties that have been bee i pickling piel kling in great salt lake for the last three years have just been removed from the water and are now being transported to nevada there to be given a trial on the new cutoff cut off of the southern pacific Pic klirs railroad ties in the great salt lake is by no mea means ns a new experiment on the part of the railroad company there are ties in the old promontory line of the central pacific which were placed there 40 years ago and have not decayed proving the preservative qualities of the salt formation in which they pickled for years before being laid on the roadbed piling is also being preserved in the lake as excellent results have been obtained by the piling in the great trestle across the tile lake which since tho the day it was first placed in tile first part of lucin cutoff cut off has shown no deterioration the preserving of ties in salt lake may become an important industry if the experiments now being worked out prove as successful as former tests |