Times Independent | 1932-05-05 | Page 6 | Gavel Constructed of Wood Oddly Preserved

gavel constructed of wood oddly preen A gavel made from ildved to be the oldest living H fled wood on the american t has been sent to dr walter afi vs hams president of the university fi missouri the history of the p goes back to a time some of years ago when a volcano baas forth at a about miles ea of eugene ore and in the high acte cades A lava stream gradually tia up a dam at one end of a dea cannon in the bottom of which pa tall douglas firs As the canyon falle f with the cold mountain water a hh was formed and the trees derew rounded and covered by this wate of unchanging temperature evha the wood was cut from one of th trees for the gavel it was contain all its natural juices and U the pungent odor of freshly cat tin ber montreal herald