Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Treatise on Timber Preservation, With Extracts From the Best Known Authorities
The weight of opinion of all the authorities that we have found on this subject, as well as our own experience, leads us to say most unhesitatingly that Creosoting is by far the most economic method of treating piles and timber for structural or sub merged work, notwithstanding its high first cost.
The san francisco timber preserving Co. Has a capacity of lineal feet of piling in 24 hours, or feet B. M. Of lumber. We treat piles and lumber of all dimensions up to 120 feet in length with an injection of 20 pounds of Creosote per cubic foot if desired.
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