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Show GREELEY PLEDGES SAFETY OF SEQUOIAS (Special Dispatch.) WASHINGTON, .Ian 2S. "No llv-- llv-- Ing aequ'ilax have over brcn cut by tho i ui est service and no one need fear jthat the sorvKo will consent to the tiacrlfice of a single tree of thla species for commorclHl or utilitarian pur- posos. ' This Ntatenient was made today by Col. W. B. Greeley, chief of the forest service. I'nlted States department of iprli ulture. It Is a reply t recent edl-torlals edl-torlals that are npproheni e of the lute of certain glunt sequoias In California, Cali-fornia, which pending legislation proposes pro-poses to turn over to the administration administra-tion of the forest eervlco. I "It Is not generally known." Col. Greeley continued, "that already several sev-eral thousand members of this royal itrco family stand within the national forests of California. The Sequoia forest contain! many splendid specimens. speci-mens. East of Hot Springs, Cal., Is group representing the most southerly south-erly occurrence of tho species. This grove is unique in that it contains all stages of growth from seedlings to i lofty eterans whoso age probably antedates an-tedates the Christian era by 1000 years "Long ago the forest service decid- ed that these trees, the oldest of living liv-ing thine contribute moro to human progress and welfare In their present condition than they could possibly contribute as lumber It has therefore there-fore been the Invariable rule since the creation of the forest service 17 years igo that no sequoias shall be cut from n.itlonal forest land " |