Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-29 | Page 2 | Rails to be Laid on Cabinet Wood

oo RAILS TO BE LAID ON CABINET WOOD Washington, July 28 Tho Panama railway will lay its track over the rarest and most valuable cabinet woods The road Is now being relocated. re-located. Incidental to the construction of the canal over part of the old line and Jt, has become necessary to replace re-place the old soft wood. Bight thousand thou-sand hard wood ties have just been received at Colon from Colombia. Most of theso ties are hewn from Guaylcum, or lignum vltae, but there are also many of Potvillo, Corteza and Balsamo, Theso hard woods should last Indefi-nately Indefi-nately oven in the tropical 'climate of the Isthmus, but they can he laid and railed only by tho use of special machinery, which bores holes for the screw bolts and chisels out faces to form the rail seats.