Show A BIG fatutta A typical giant tree tre ahree s from froin the stump long lon before the advent of the chita inan in california forest fires rayed an and d from froin recent discoveries it is probable that giant g trees were thus destroyed in comparion comp irison to which our much lauded sequoias and redwoods of the present are but saplings ps in 1843 I 1 commodore Apts by catesby jonc bonc united states stated I 1 navy vv a mull mail sawmill in mill valley for the purpose of cef petting out lumber there being no sawmills in operation on the coast at it ae me time r lates uie the california tali fornia fruit grower A few rein remnants nants of this old mill still reir remain tain the locality being acin about six miles macsi f row sausalito Sau on the the north pacific coast railway close by thih thi mill enill there can today to day bo be plainly tracos the outlines of a tree destroyed by fire perhaps ages ago the stump still inea afif fifty ty two feet in diameter and from froin r appearances ppe arances perhaps once measured fully sixty feet around this mammoth stump had bad grown immense trees which were cut and used in ij the sawmill in 1819 1849 since theu then a third growth has been made I 1 the of walh vl iiIi would mako maice glad the lic heart artof of any lumbe the stump AV was measured b by Y idward edward 1 A T Liila allu gher the pioneer who lost his genut won for veracity in 1849 J AV alion lion liv lii ti scrip tin of the sequoia sequoias of caio raia vvs vw phiou lied in the eastern 11 ip i 1 in which UK statement was made ahat lits his employed emp culp loyes lud had dri aren a winn wi nn mid it a yoke of oxen ahr through ough it a arf m tate i te tree tatt was avas burned hollow ollow li ad L icy 10 Y ifould one hundred feet kid t 0 ou oiz and out through uli a knot ole at vic fie time the statement ement was waa inde t ito ho lad lidid a tree sevenell i in I 1 ii aneter and had used the 0 o oi A onu ono I 1 at was stand iiii in mii to bub e birteen head of horata burbes |