Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1886 — Railroad Tie Plantations. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Tie Plantations.

Hon. R. W. Phipps, Forestry Commissioner of Ontario, in a letter from Southern Kansas to the Toronto Globe, writes: “One railroad board here, knowing that the growing of wood, when set about in earnest, is neither a slow nor a difficult task, has established in Kansas the largest artificial plantation of forest trees in North America. These railway gentlemen themselves gave out the contract for planting over a square mile of land with young saplings of the catalpa and ailanthus, and their president, observing the success of their experiment, and impressed with its probable excellent financial results, has had planted at his own expense, as a speculation, as much more. These are situated near the little town of Farlington, Kan.” In every land and clime, the merits of St. Jacobs Oil as the only conqueror of pain, are being acknowledged by the press and people.