Eureka Reporter | 1904-02-19 | Page 7 | 71 and-Year-Old Cedar

lima and year old cedar sal many large specimens of 22 her alar mono til 1111 lii beiji garden of the gods 1 i 1 tt I 1 C lorado prof bessey or of the university of nebraska during p F recent visit to that place made an effort to ascertain the age of some of ane magnificent specimens he was fortinate enough to find the stump of a recently tilt ut tree on which it was easy to astin aish the annual growth rings these were counted for a see tion of the trunk care being taken to a portion in which the rings were of average thickness and on ti Is basis the number of the whole stump wa calculated in this way it WAS found that this particular tree was edween and 1000 1 years old