Coalville Times | 1897-04-30 | Page 6 | Tree Changes Its Quarters

TREE CHANGES ITS QUARTERS ku lrci It Turk Tlirre rrk < la Max II Sills reel An unusual feat In the transplanting linn was aicompllthnl rectntly here i is the Plltshurg Dispatch An vim Ire llfty feet high nnd with n trunk olghliin Inchon In diimetnr wllh roots and nil woo motrd llfly feet The trIo Is I tlir proiKTty of Mrs 1 William Thnw not stood on the linn o f the Heechtrood iHiiilitard whine It irntots Ira 1 haws property nt Ilflli uteniii near Shady nunue Mrs 1 Tliaw denlinl to ante the tree and Contranlor John Hmhlea undertook to mote It A circular cir-cular mich war dug around tho eat at u distance of ten feet from the trunk A a depth of six nt the workman unraveled under the tree bracing Ibo earth ahote with limber The mew of earth twenl feet scrow and six feet deep In which were Imbedded the rice slut 118 note waa then blineul 1 In wills plank Strew were placed be nexus the whole ma raliml smut place h on roller and motwl silly feet to where n great hole hnd been prepared I pre-pared for Ito reception It WM lowered l nlo place earth fllliil In a Ihe screw e were remoted and II slmM as llrm ne It U had grnnn there Time tree avna malnlnlned In an tiprlghl tunltlon by thin weight ot earth ut the root The whole mesa ulghcd sttenty tons Tho work occupied about three tvock and n number of photograph of tho tr awhile a-while In transit were taken I