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Show years old. I The Greatest Trees California has long been considered con-sidered the home of the largest trees on earth, but fantastic stories of great trees in various parts of the world led T. J. Starker ,pro-fesor ,pro-fesor of forestry at Oregon state college, to make a systematic study and investigation of the subject for the last 15 years. This he has done through travel ana by correspondence with forest Cf P,!rtS, aU Ver tho Slobe. Many 01 tti cla.ms concerning great trees proved entirely false or greatly exaggerated, ex-aggerated, and ho has at least come Cf0nclusion tht the world's argest trees are in California, af. ier all. ' r Jhe f 1-lcst tree. be declares Is a redwood m umboldt, state park, 3C4 feet high, while the most massive mas-sive is the General Serman tree, a sequioa m Sequoia Nati j 13 279 feet high, Wkh . diameter of SC.5 feet. cnt into lumber tho General Sherman would yield over 600.OuT bo.r3 inn Cnoueh 10 buil wore than 100 five-room houses. m, eJh 0ther bi in Sequoia Se-quoia National Park are e?c? iT1?' hlight 270 diameter diam-eter 31 feet; the William McKin- ley. he.ght 291 fCt' diameter 28 fee ; and the Dalton, height 292 feet, diameter 27 feet It is a strange fact that the se- S, n-med for Sequoyan bM.Uratt American Indian gen- Jnhr tJ'tK86 character. k native 7i tb-e mountains 0f Califor-!' Califor-!' n o' these trees are estimated to' be , more than 3.000 |