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REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 



try to-day, and which doubtless has the largest number of important 

 advantages in its favor. 



A Topical Creosoftng Plant 



The Eppinger & Russell creosoting works occupy about four acres of 

 land at the junction of First Street and Newtown Creek. There are 600 

 feet of dock front, with twenty-one feet of water. A spur of the Long 

 Island Railroad enters the yard. Most of the space in the yard is utilized 

 for piling up the timber, ties and piles which have arrived and are awaiting 



EPPINGER & RUSSELL CO'S CREOSOTING WORKS, FIRST STREET AND NEWTON CREEK, 



LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



treatment, or which have been treated and are awaiting shipment, and for 

 storing treated timber owned by the company and which the latter keeps 

 in stock for those who desire to purchase direct from them instead of having 

 their own material treated. 



The piles of treated and untreated timber and logs are all interesting. 

 I took a number of photographs of them. Here was a large stack of long 

 piles (seventy-five feet) from North Carolina, via Norfolk, Va., and which, 

 after treatment, were to go to Porto Rico for docks of the New York and 

 Porto Rico Steamship Company. There was a lot of stock piling — yellow 

 pine from Norfolk. They were of uneven lengths — thirty-five to sixty 



