Show SlANT GIANT CYPRESS Of ANCIENT DAY Louisiana Tree Budding in in inN I N 5 Time NEW ORLEANS CHILEANS March 3 The 3 The fifth firth oldest known living thing on earth and the third oldest In North America Is a giant cypress tree In what Is la known as the Edenborn Brake In WInn parish this state according to Carleton F. F Poole of the Louisiana state conversation conversation conver conver- d department The fihe age of the tree has been placed I at 2500 years by Professor Herman erman ermane e of at it Louis and other he scientists scientists i kh th i g g a ft J who have e examined I It According According Accord Accord- ing Ing- to records It Is exceeded In longevity longevity long long- only by the Santa Maria MarJa del Tule cypress near Oaxaca Mexico to years old the Dragon tree at Or Orotava Orp- Orp tava Island of years old the Redwood tree California years old and the tree Senegal years old The Edenborn cypress was budding Into life when Jerusalem was taken by It was a lusty young sprout when the battles of Marathon Marathon Mart Mar Mar- when athon t A Assyria and Thermopylae was Oil at the a apex were e eol of ol fought world dominion and when Rome was a village vil village vil- vil lage of mu mud r roads and and- hovels The tree was years old when Christ t was born In Bethlehem a a. veteran when the he Roman legions were withdraw n from Britain to leave lea t the savage y you ou e et tribes of those Islands to fight out t their differences difference and was more than n 2000 years old when Columbus sailed Into the Atlantic to begin his voyage of discovery The tree was one of a number of ur f t-s t s kind In a tract pf ot pine timber D purchased purchased pur pur- chased by William Edenborn some som ee e years refused t e ago to a and permit when I ert tt It 1 logging and I tree three began ot others her no e s almost as large to be fr felled although o J fa at fl the giant contains I approximately r 23 23 T feet fet of lumber It is is peculiarly s sit sk situated for one of ot its species for while the cypress usually s grows o In s swamps mp the Edenborn Edenborn specimen m stands ra s ss In a hollow between hills One of the three cypresses left standIng standing stand- stand Ing ins with It was felled by a storm some months ago Mr Edenborn has offered of offered of- of the aged giant and Its two companions companions com com- i nt to the c conservation s aa o department et t t tto to do with them as it sees fit so long longas as none Is Injured The department Yh plans r construction 0 tf of 1 a alt highway lt W tc to them 8 BO so that the spot may a be visited It more easily by tourists and home folk |