DURABILITY OF TIMBER

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 5, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 44.

DURABILITY OF TIMBER.

SEASONED timber is but little liable to decay under the influence of a dry atmosphere, and will resist decomposition for an indefinite period when kept totally submerged in water. The piles of old London Bridge, driven 800 years before, were found to be in good condition when the new bridge was erected in 1859, and those which served as a foundation for Trojan's bridge over the Danube, A. D. 105, are said to be still visible at low stages of water.—Toronto Mail.