| Saint Louis Railway Club, St. Louis Railway Club - Railroads - 1914 - 482 pages
...in the well-drained, but cool and moist soil under the ties and ballast of a modern railway roadbed baptized day after day and year after year with the...once planted in this natural culture medium, will lie forever, revitalized by new infection, perhaps, but in the meantime facultative enough to meet... | |
| Saint Louis Railway Club, St. Louis Railway Club - Railroads - 1914 - 458 pages
...Seattle takes its water supply. and moist soil under the ties and ballast of a modern railway roadbed baptized day after day and year after year with the...once planted in this natural culture medium, will lie forever, revitalized by new infection, perhaps, but in the meantime facultative enough to meet... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Government Operations - 1970 - 150 pages
..."in the well drained but cool and moist soil under the ties and ballast of the modern railway road bed, baptized day after day and year after year with...facultative enough to meet seasonal and other changes." Accordingly, he expressed the opinion that the old trunk lines of the United States were already infected... | |
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