Show BURIED 30 YEARS YEAR IN A TREE Telegraph Bracket Completely In In- closed In Wood Is Found In 1 California 1 telegraph Thirty six years ago n a bracket and Insulator was nailed to o n Douglas fir fil tree near Arcata Cat CaL A Afew Afew Afew few years later a falling branch badly It and the wire which it had been supporting was removed The tree freo was growing thriftily adding I c Cry every ry summer to Its diameter a new hi layer or of ot wo woody dY material and this growth gradually pushed out around the bracket et on all nil sides Ides leaving It buried buried bur bur- In the tree trunk At the end of 20 3 years cars the tip of the glass Insulator finally disappeared from sight and the only trace of lOt it that thai could still be seen was a n scarcely no lump which looked like nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing more than a n healed healed over o er branch stub A few weeks weeks' ago ngo the tree a was felled and the wood manufactured Into nto barrel staves sta The screech of or the saw which happened to graze the edge of at atthe the glass called attention to this unusual un usual fossil On splitting open the sta stave e bolt bott the HiP whole story became clear in all nIl its de de- rails The clearly defined annual rings ring of lOt the rapidly l growing trees form an unimpeachable historical record The wood of ot the Insulator bracket brackel is still sun In good condition and the oa oal of ot which it was made has bas received an nn unintentional preservative treatment being thoroughly impregnated with tin the resin of or the surrounding fir The In Interesting specimen can cnn now nov be seen In to Inthe the wood collection of or the forestry dl vision at nt the University of California American Forestry Magazine |