Show D D E irl 4 40 A A 4 F e ra A 1711 fP or bif eva it HOEVER has been in call calf fornia and has not seen the big trees ought to go back the tallest ot of living things Is te tite sequoia tens the largest of living things Is the sequoia well atonia doth both varieties are known commonly as redwoods from the soft red wood under tha thick and fibrous bark some of the tall trees are feet in height boire sowe of the big ones nearly forty feet in dl drometer dip meter ometer and moat most of them are estimated to be fully years old that means they were sprouting about the time the pyramids Pyram lda were being built and abraham waa wait tending his socks flocks upon the mesopotamian plains the most famous of the trees la Is in the Ala mariposa Marl posa grove A road runs directly through the trunk of the arboreal giant and ll 11 Is a novel ex perle peri ence to drive through this unique tunnel in a wagon agon or carriage these trees are older than socrates or buddha they are older than but for all their superb strena the big brets show some of tho the elpa ot 01 a waning family so far from h 1 ing disposed to block stock new now areas wid seedlings thay are not even ream fluting their own groves with thing like profusion or comple tene neu in the talaveras Cala veraa veras tract beyond a la fel trees some forty years old there I 1 said to be no evidence ot of the same 13 1 true of moat most of the athe gloves except the stands on tim south fork of the kaweah and t tin tula rivers where there is yosa growth in abuD dance and of ejiri age unfortunately however this U region will not suffice tt hand down the species inasmuch u m the mother mothes trees whose protection ll 11 so important to tho survival ol 01 tit tho young ones seem in a it ar far f way tob to I 1 cut down I 1 ily fly tar far tho ho irrea greatest test number ot ol til big trees are held in private owned ship u and unfortunately ta tm by lumber companies of whid about stout fifty arc are at work in part 9 it all t e YA A 57 any human empire and any revealed reveal cd 1 religion it Is probable that some of tho the sequoias as the finest big trees aro are called aro floo years old nowhere elso else in the world orld are there living things eo so aged interestingly enough the sequoias in this world are found only in california part of their extraordinary age ager sas a writer in tho the worlds work 1 Is due to theli thelt own vigor and the favors of tho the climate but part also to tb tt r natural immunities in most western forests and no less so in those of the sierra many trees are killed by fire and fungus thu first eats out butts or sweeps through crowns or bakes tho the soil and tho the sec ond end lodges in broken limbs or tops or scare the bark and gradually rots backward into the wood but the sequoia though it la Is very commonly burned out at tho the base has a thick fibrous bark which la Is nil nit but fireproof and without which the innumerable visitations of tho the past would certainly have destroyed it IL in th same way the wood Is practically impervious to decay fungus Is said to be unknown to it and even eveh old windfour wInd foU burned and w erred and exposed to every sort of evil influence have lain sound for or hundreds of years individually sequoias are in deed almost imperishable least on sequoia timber holdings include tho the sequoia and tind GO grant national at lonal parka parks of jol 2560 acres respectively but betge them they contain 1172 acres of v w private claims probably located III law heart of the best timber besides be side 1 sawmill apiece eo so that being ra rat hard to reach they are anad inadequate eau a parks except of 0 course from w standpoint of which in t casp case ought to overrule every 0 tho the one grove thoroughly sec la Is the mariposa Marl posa which Is owned a protected protect td by the state of it iq 1 o visited by touris to tho the yosemite valley and it V somo some very larce trees the department of agriculture recently been informed that ce cartall cill ltd publications dealing with euw seve f 1 tua have bem misquoted by companies interested in selling ISO la for instance circular 97 of tho the for FOCI service has been misrepresented sa ing ng that california will la in 3 i ear ears be tho the only source of 0 hard hardic supply in tho the united states the department exports believe tl there ie Is promise promse of considerable cess in the cultivation of eucalypt trees in many parte parts of C california 1 estimates of profit and 0 of f growth t IA been attributed to the depart which aro are |