Effects of Drinking. — He who takes too many glasses will likely become a tumbler. A small experiment in cheap railway construction is mentioned from America, which seems to surpass previous similar attempts in that country. The line in progress is a length of 30 miles in the State of Missouri, of which about one mile is finished. The cost of this mile laid with T rails has been £ 1,300, and the cost of the entire 30 miles is estimated at £58,000 allowing £3,300 for culverts, bridges, &c. The roadbed ia 6ft. wide at the top, following the rise and fall of the ground where it does not exceed 70ft. to the mile, and winding round high hills and steep grades in, curves of 200 ft. radius, less than ene-third of those required for the ordinary gauge.
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Southland Times, Issue 1538, 16 February 1872, Page 3
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