Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1910 — Hawaiian Mahogany Used for Ties. [ARTICLE]

Hawaiian Mahogany Used for Ties.

E. O. Faulkner, head of the forestrj ' department of the Santa Fe, has re turned from Honolulu, where he went to sign up a contract for the entire output of ohia ties of the Hawaiian islands. Ohia is the heaviest wood known and Is also one of the hardest. It is a species of mahogany, very knotty and upnsplitable. Experiments have demonstrated that it is affected but little by the continuous pounding of heavy rolling stock and for that reason it is being used in curved where strength and durability is of the greatest Importance and cost a matter cf secondary consideration.