 I need not take time to relate,) the price of pigs became very low, and their works being of great extent, in order to keep the furnaces on, they thought it would be the best means of stocking their pigs, to lay them on the wooden railways, as it would...  Osborne's Guide to the Grand Junction, Or, Birmingham, Liverpool, and ... - Page 51838 - 347 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Industrial arts - 1811 - 464 pages
...stocking their pigs to lay it on the wooden railways, as it woujd help to pay the interest by reducing the the repairs of the rails, and if iron should take...do but to take them up, and send them away as pigs. But these scantlings of iron (as I may call them) were not as those which are now laid in some places... | |
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1811 - 454 pages
...they thought it would be the best means of stocking their pigs to lay it on the wooden railways, as it would help to pay the interest by reducing the repairs of the rails, and if iron should take any den rise, there was nothing to do but to take them up, and send them away as pigs. But these scantlings... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1835 - 938 pages
...thought it would be the best means of stocking their pigs, to lay them on the wooden railways, as it would help to pay the interest by reducing the repairs...do but to take them up, and send them away as pigs. " But these scantlings of iron (as I may call them) were not such as those which are now laid in some... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1836 - 942 pages
...thought it would be the best means of stocking their pigs, to lay them on the wooden railways, as it would help to pay the interest by reducing the repairs...do but to take them up, and send them away as pigs. "But these scantlings of iron (as I may call them) were not such as those which are now laid in some... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Locomotives - 1837 - 236 pages
...thought it would be the best means of stocking their pigs, to lay them on the wooden railways, as it would help to pay the interest by reducing the repairs...do but to take them up, and send them away as pigs. " But these scantlings of iron (as I may call them) were not such as those which are now laid in some... | |
 | Roads - Bridges - 1839 - 360 pages
...stocking their pigs to lay them on the wooden railways, as it would help to pay the interest of expenses by reducing the repairs of the rails ; and if iron...do but to take them up and send them away as pigs." This is the account of the first adoption of iron rails, about the year 1 767, as given by Hornblower... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 pages
...stdtking their pigs to lay them on tho wooden railways, as it would help to pay the interest of expenses by reducing the repairs of the rails ; and if iron...do but to take them up and send them away as pigs." This is the account of the first adoption of iron rails, about the year 17f>7, as given by Hombiower... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1846 - 944 pages
...thought it would be the best meant of stocking their pigs, to lay them on the wooden railways, as it would help to pay the interest by reducing the repairs of the rails ; and if iron should lake any sudden rise, there was nothing to do but to take them up, and send fliem away as pigs. But... | |
 | James Day - Railroad engineering - 1848 - 240 pages
...thought it would be the best means of stocking their pigs, to lay them on the wooden railways, as it would help to pay the interest by reducing the repairs...do but to take them up, and send them away as pigs. But these scantlings of iron (as I may call them) were not such as are now laid in some places ; they... | |
 | James Day (engineer.) - 1848 - 240 pages
...would be the best means of stocking their pigs, to lay them on the wooden railways, as it would belp to pay the interest by reducing the repairs of the...do but to take them up, and send them away as pigs. were about five feet long, four inches broad, and one inch and a quarter thick, with three holes, by... | |
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