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Note: T. G. JACKLIN --------------- A FORMER HOLGATE BOY IS AN INVENTER OF A STEEL DRAIN AND CROSS TIE The Claremore Progress, a paper published at Claremore, Indian Ter., has the following to say of an invention of T. G. Jacklin, formerly of Holgate, whose parents still reside here. T. G. Jacklin, of Sageeyah, is exhibiting in our city a steel drain and railroad cross tie he has invented, that is attracting considerable attention at the hands of railroad officials and others who are interested in matters of the kind. The invention embodies some particularly strong features and is novel in many respects. It not only serves its primary object of an imperishable tie, but clamps the rail and holds them rigid and firm to their place, and as it occupies two-thirds of the road bed and drains the same, it does away with much of the trouble that railroad men experience from soft road beds. Mr. Jacklin has had twenty-five years actual experience in the track department of railroading and has full faith in his ability to demonstrate the thoroughly practical features of his tie, and is prepared to test its strength or capacity to sustain his claims if desired by any railroad management who may wish to see the tie in actual use. The tie question is an important feature in railroad building and a few figures along that line may be of interest to our readers, and will aid in showing the great saving Mr. Jacklin claims for his tie. There are 200,000 miles of railroad in the United States today, and as it takes 3,500 ties to the mile, there are in use 700,000,000 ties, and as the average life of a tie is five years it would take 3,500,000,000 ties for use of the railroads for twenty-five years which at the average price of 85 cents a piece would be - $2,800,000,000. Mr. Jacklin claims that the maximum price of his tie would be $3.00 each and that they would last twenty-five years, so that by using his tie it would take 700,000,000 at $3.00 which would be $2,100,000,000, a saving of $700,000,000 over the wooden tie, to be added to this would be $320,000,000 saved in labor in putting in ties, and the scrap iron of the old ties at the end of 25 years at a 1/2 cent per pound, would be $150,000,000 making a total saving of $1,470,000,000. (Source: Henry County Review - Thursday, November 13, 1902)
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