Show THE BIG TREES OF the editor of the he aia Ala gazette makes the following foli owing report from actual measurement and observe observation a tion the grove is about three quarters of a mile in length and nearly half a mile in width containing over two hundred reee frees rece two thirds of which are over eighteen feet in diameter out oat of twenty two trees measured the smallest was sixty five feet ia a cli cil cum ference the larrest largest of the group measures one hundred and two feet and a third onehundred one hundred feet another which had been blown down and the top broken off and burned measures eight feet in diameter at the llie broken or small end remaining which is one hundred and ninety two feet from the base or roots of the trees on a single acre there are ar twenty three trees the smallest of which mea 1 eighteen feet nine inches in diameter A bout og oae e mie mile faulb of these there is another group containing about 30 trees i |