Show RAILROADS TAKE UP FORESTRY the bureau 0 of forestry forc stry has continued this year on a far larger scale the experiments in timber seasoning and preservation for taw th railroads which it began last year this summer the work will be carried on in many ninny states east south and west and will be broadened in scope and made oven more thorough than before this work will be done for new york central the erie the baltimore and ohio and the pennsylvania roads in the east and for the illinois central the tile santa fe the st louis and san francisco the missouri kansas and texas the northern pacific and und the tile burlington in the south and west ivest the scarcity of valuable timbers is felt by no class of consumers more keenly than by the railroads which use every year M ties merely to renew those worn out and decayed the price of timbers has risen in some instances to a figure which makes their use prohibitive hibi bibi tive in other cases the supply is so nearly exhausted that the roads have bave been compelled to 40 01 look abow for now timbers |