Show PICKLING RAILROAD TIES ten thousand railroad ti ties es that live inva been ng in great salt likes lake utah tor for tie last three years have just juat been removed from that bedl bod of highly mineralized water and nd are now being transported to laaen nevada there to be given a aral en cu the new hazen cut oft off ot of the swithem pacific company pickling railroad ral road ties to in the great SIR silt lake is by no means a new on the part of the railroad company there are ties in the old promontory Pro lino line of the ce pacific railway which were placed pi iced there 40 years ago and have not decayed proving the pre STat ive lve qualities of the salt tor for illation in which they pickled for cor years before being laid on the road bid piling is also alo being preserved in n lea latie aa a s excellent results have been obtained by the piling in ill the greal brea tr ale across the lake which sace the day it was flat placed in I 1 tta farst part of 0 the construction of cf thi the luch cut off has shown no de j i allie ties that have lusa been removed from the great salt it lake will be ba subjected to a hard test in the alkali soils of nola vain the pickling pro process coss ila ha caused them to become heavily lal rree nad ed with salt and they act at a aruid to fo the electric current in the boch block signal vico this fact makes t tiem jem unfit for use on the i main aln I 1 no of the company over which tte the block signals play a most lm im portana pat pact the pm serving of ties and piling in great salt lake I 1 may become an important Jm Im t industry it th experiments now being worked r out prove as successful as former tests testa |