INDIAN FOREST RECORDS 
Vol. IX. ] 1922 Parti 
RESULTS OF ANTISEPTIC TREATMENT OP SLEEPERS. 
Note on the Indian sleeper market, Record of durability tests 
on Treated Sleepers and Conclusions arrived at therefrom 
by 
R. S. PEARSON, C.I.E., I.F.S., 
Economist at the Forest Research Institute, Dehri Dun. 
PART I. 
General review of the position of the sleeper market in India. 
1. Discussion on sleepers by the Railway Board and Engineers 
IN 1921. 
At a meeting of the Railway and Forest Ofl&cers held in 1919, a dis- 
cussion on Railway Sleepers took place, the substance of which was 
recorded in paragraph xvi of the proceedings. Mr. Harvey, the then 
Chief Engineer, North Western Railway, discussed the question of 
supplies from Kashmir, the Punjab and Burma and also referred to 
the creosoting plant to be erected by his railway near Bias. This subject 
was again discussed at a meeting of the Chief Engineers in April 1919 
and further discussion as to ways and means of increasing the supply of 
sleepers was taken up at a meeting of Chief Engineers held early in 
August 1921, when the following minutes were recorded : — 
“ On Tuesday, 2nd August, Mr. R. S. Pearson, Forest Economist, 
presented a note on the antiseptic treatment of sleepers and supple- 
mented it with further remarks on the tests that had been carried out 
during the past ten years and on the present position. The note was 
discussed at some length, Mr. Pearson replying to many questions. 
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