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Show Poplar Tree Worth $1,500. The cieat value of limber is shown In the mm of n tree recently cut near Wajnosvllle, X. C. Tho giant of tho Alleghany mountains was a curly poplar, pop-lar, so Urge that twelve horses wcro required to haul away tho butt cut, which was twelve feet long. Tho lowest low-est limb was eighty feet from tho giounil. This slnglo troo contained 25,000 feet of llrst-clnss lumber, most of It useful as encoring, and Its valuo was $1,500 The slni.-le troo was worth nioro than the entire mountain farm ' upon which it stood. |