{"newspaper_name": "Mobile register and journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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A method is said 10 have been discovered in Eng land, whereby wood can be rendered as hard and du- rable iron stone; and It is further asserted that the wooden rails, thus prepared, have been success fully substituted for the iron rails in common use.- The cost of heavy iron rails, the most approved kind, is said to be in England not far from f70OO per mile trails made by the method ii s stated can be laid down for s400 per mile.

 The annual report of the Patent afice for the last year, makes mention of the discovery one likely to be vast importance to this country. The wood en rails have been used on the Dover Railroad, and others laid down at Vauxhall, for experiment, have endured years travel without any perceptiLIe in jury. The process of preparing the timber is simply this :--

 The pieces, after having been fitted by the car pener and joiner for their places are introduced in 10 an immense iron cylinder. which is then exhaust ed by an air pump. A solution oi the suphaie of iron s then injected, which immediately enters into the exhausted pores of the wood. The wood IS then withdrawn, and placed agan in a similar vacum, in a solution of murate of lime, which coming into contact with the sulphate of iron within the wood, decomposes it, and forms an insoluble sulphats of lime, gypsum. within the wood; and the mura'e of iron, the other new compound goes about its busi- ness. So the wood becomes thoroughly implegnsted w, stone as hard rock and yet il is as tough as 1t was before"