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Show A CIANT REDWOOD. The Remarkable Exhibit Now Enroute to the W orld's I'atr. Sax Francisco, Aug. 14. The wonderful won-derful redwood tree shipped from Tulare Tu-lare county by a Mr. Van Doorman, and which will bo exhibited at the world's fair in Chicago, has arrived here. Three flat cars were required to haul the exhibit to this city. It weighs 70,000 pounds. It will be exhibited at the mechanics' fair in San Francisco prior to being shipped to Chicago. The section of the tree was taken from a mammoth forest in Tulare county, Cal., within thirty-five miles of Porterville. It was cut from a forest giant 812 feet in height, growing at an altitude of 6325 feet, and was severed from the parent trte twenty-eight feet above the stump, nt which point the treo measures sixty feet in circumference. circumfer-ence. Of course, the tree was considerably consider-ably larger at the stump, but a section from the base could not be out for the purpose of transportation for the reason that a solid cut, twenty feet in diameter and nine feet in height was the maximum of the railway freight limit on flat cars. Tho entire piece of wood consists of sixteen sections as follows: fol-lows: Tho lower section is a foot in height by twenty feet in diameter, all in one solid cut, weighing 10,728 pounds. Thi9 will be arranged as a floor placed on nine -elegatitly carved and enormous pedestals, made of the wood of the same tree. Thn next cut is seven feet in height by twenty fePt in diameter, which is hollowed out nnd will be placed on the floor cut. Tho last and tinal cut is 1 foot high, nnd similar in every respect to the floor cut. The whole of this remarkable curiosity will form a sort of hall and will accomodate about 100 people, and will be entered by a sw inging door made out of one of the portions of the second section. ' Two hundred and fifty incandescent lights will illuminate the section, inside and out, and a number of skilled wood carvers have been engaged to manufacture manu-facture souvenirs for distribution among tho visitors. |