Show the glorious redwood the redwood says john muir in the t atlantic tl antic is ie the glory of the coast range it ft extends along the western slope elope in a nearly continuous belt ten miles wide from beyond the oregon boundary to the south of santa cruz a distance of nearly miles and in massive sustained grandeur and closeness of growth bur surpasses passes all the other timber woods of the world trees from 10 to 16 15 feet in diameter and feet high are not uncommon and a few attain a height of feet or even with a diameter at the base of 16 15 to 20 feet or more while tho the ground beneath them is a garden of fresh exuberant ferns lilies and rhododendron As timber the redwood is too good to live the largest sawmills ever built are busy along its seaward border with all the modem improvements but so eo immense is the yield per acre it will be long ere the supply is exhausted tho the big dreels also to some extent being made into luin lumber ber though far less lesa abundant it is fortunately less accessible extending along the western flank of the sierra in a partially interrupted belt about miles long at a height of from to feet above the sea the enormous logs too heavy to band are blasted into manageable dimensions men with gunpowder A large portion of the best timber is thus shattered and destroyed and with the huge knotty tops is left in ruins for tremendous fires that kill every tree within their range great and small |