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Show feet in diameter, and running up 230 feet without a limb. We expect that it will vanish rapidly now that the Eastern lumbermen have 'turned West, but if California will be careful to protect the second growth, the.' great mountains will be covered anew in fifty 'years. There is no other growth of. pine timber to compare with the forests of the Golden State.'- " :: CALIFORNIA PINES. - A lumberman from Minneapolis has just purchased pur-chased 5500 acres of timber land in Shasta county, California. The Northern pineries are swiftly disappearing dis-appearing and lumbermen are now looking south end west for a supply." There is much good timber in the South, but there is more on one acre in Shasta county than on any fen acres of Southern soil. One can see from a car window trees six,, eight and ten |