| Show TUB CiMFOUMA HKIWOOI One I It lrrir In all Chiesulorloa llou cf Iti lam dIrhtloa Ir 1k bbs Almost ever one ll Interrtcd In tlic redwood trees ur the bin tree of California Tlio lumberman units before them and estimates his proAt In converting them Into lumber from whit llIv our beautiful redwood floors toun and In some Catcs book shelve are made The tourbt Inures their gAiitlc tin and feel ttatl he hat needed 1 < nee-ded a purl of hU duly II he falls to record the fact tint omofll e blgtreei nlOI 111llfr 1315 f feet high one tlMt ha UlTcii hail n girth ol nurly seventy fiet l cud lit rings ol growth Indicate an ace of about ijooyears These and a few other like entries attest the nature of hit Interest Inter-est Unlike the lumberman aud t urlslwho think only uf the prestntthe boUntatind geolafUl < < tttndlrg before time trees allow their minds la conlemtdite the past history uf them as Hell u to dwell on their present condition In the Tettlary age the geological age Immediately Im-mediately preceding the axe lu uhlch we Inc the redwood trees nnd 1 tree clotely related lo them grew Inalmoei all pant 1 uf Ihe world Remains of them hake been found In Greenland as far north oa 7 s Indeed vast foratit of them ucrc found within the Arctic rone III Spitsbergen they flourfohcxl up lo 78 ° north latitude In Asia Ihe rednoeste ranfeot hrqpa Ilse onthoot nouIhi 00 the I Iinatsa litjitutalLi on the souih and from the Caspian sea on blue west lo the sex of Japan on the cast It sems to have grown In most urls of Europe and probably Africa EX In North rr1Cnr romalns have been found in several porte of Canada and from there south to southern Mexico hveht I In far Australia It Is I known to have grown but it became extinct there for some unknown reason e ill In the Tertiary period In Asia Europe and Noilh America the twentysix specie of redwood persisted until the Glacial period when all hut two specie became extinct and Iheke two are stranded l on our Pacific coach The two specie are i knoun to botanists ai the StiHvfj see ftrvtttm and the Atfuaia gtfMlti Tue I I tint I still forms cxteniive uruts and is i Ilia source ol our redwood lumber while the latter ls ditmctlvcly known as Ilia big tree The StfMoia glitMtta was nol recog nised at a stparata species until Ibu It grows In Isolated l clump on some ol tho mountains ol California at an do yahoo 01 Irom 5000to 7000 reel above bti level 1 here U some Interesting lilstofy con I dII t lall 711 ncclcd with I the botanical name uf these trees iffiuj bciJuaYali uas tho Indian name of Joiin GueM half breed Cherokee Indian born In Alabama Ala-bama In 1770 With no old whatever ho invented an alphabet for his people It rtflb I and taught It I lo aUdI as ho ldOOI persuade per-suade to learn It by writing It on leaves 1 llefore JuoVali and lib people were banished to New Mexico I and Indian Territory in IW some missionaries to J m loL Lrkh dl III II the Cherokeeii publlttied a periodical I I In this I alphabet nnd trai latcd rt pan of the llible utlng I tins 1 character Than Cherokecs now hive a considerable literature written I In tlicHr own language beOuoYali r dlnl In New I fcII In HtJhcn the botanist ndllcher prepared pre-pared hit synopsis l of the pines In 86 I IJi r s Jd A lie wan Induced lo dedicate the redwood tree to the greatest literary genius the red men of America ever produced To make the mme pronounceable he softened Quotun lo Sequoli C A WIIITINU University of Utah |
