Show WOODS OF THE NORTHWEST nowhere else in the world Is there such a forest as this A few steps I 1 in any direction from the roads of the loggers bring one at once to the beval wood turn to the north A thousand and five hundred miles you may wander if you will and never escape the en closing silences of this wood across the british possessions through end less reaches of mountains snow capped inaccessible and onward to alaska nothing but trees and trees cedar fir hemlock pine spruce turn to the so ith for a thousand miles of sierra through the heart ot of california where grows the sequoia the monarch among frees rees to the very deserts of the mexican border and you will find this forest still covering all the hills thick silent and all but undisturbed A continent long is this wood facing the pacific here miles wide from the water s edge across the hights bights of the cascade and the sierra there narrowing to a thin straggling yet persistent growth along the mountain tops I 1 this tree beffie you rising feet in air straight and strong thick coated with brown bark its mighty base setting firmly in the earth its roots gripping deep was nas growing be fare columbus saw america five hundred years has it been standing there raising its head to the sky what storms has it bent before under what ages of sunshine has it gained strength what lightning strokes have threatened it what sweeping fires and still it stands with the sublime majesty of age and strength fearful of nothing and the sound of axes knocking in the valley below bat lona long before the seed of this hoary giant was sown in the wind forests forests were nere old on these hills for 50 years and more have tl ese mountains been forest clad one tor for est rising in years from youth to maturity sinking away in ripe old age and giving room to another gen aeration of trees deep in the earth today to day lie some of these ancient for ests changed by slow chemistry of the ages into coal and now at last beginning to give out for men the sunshine which they stored up cen before the beginning of hs h s tory century magazine |