Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1877 — A Valuable Discovery.—-Wood Treated with Creosote. [ARTICLE]

A Valuable Discovery.—-Wood Treated with Creosote.

11l repairing the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad bridge across West Bay, and which was injured by the September gale, Major George B. Nichols, superintendent of the road, has taken special pains to observe the effects of the creosoting to which the piles of that bridge were treated before being placed in position. He thinks that seven-eighths of them are as sound now as when they were first hauled out to the bay, notwithstanding they have been in the salt water for two years and a half. He bro’t a piece of one of the piles to the city yesterday. It was lined with barnacles, but they hadtuot eaten a particle into the wood Major Nichols thinks that the piles that have been thoro’ly creosoted will last for 50 years. Mr. A. H. Wood, of this place, is the sole agent for Jasper, White and Pulaski counties for the sale, by subscription. of “Gunn’s New Family Physieian; or Home Book of Health,” a work now in its 200th edition. It contains over 1200 pages of very useful information, and should be in every family. Sold only by subscription.