| Show CIS sig TREES frees the ilia trill tila tale immediate to t To ilina WASE washington INGTON dec dc 20 26 andrew caldwell Calda ell special agent of the general land office appointed to make gation as to the cant giant trees sequoia Gig gigantes antea in the stockton and visalia land districts in california californi I 1 I 1 rep 0 arts that in the visalia district t t there here is one email and one lari large grove of klant giant trees the letter latter la a virgin virgi 1 I forest and contains over 1200 gla giant t floi n anil and man many more email small trees trees triine me five year s BRO ago a co opera tive colony located about forty entries in the tile neighborhood and are con a road to this timber bait the colony it Is aaser asserted ted numbers about GOO GM members and has recently recent an en grafted i he bellamy idea a as 9 ita lead 7 ice attractions there is danger d anger the agent believes that these people if unmolested will coon soon destroy di etroy this moet most wonderful and r perfect rieca body of y g ganiea danl id in the world in a tibia table riving lying the number and eiza size of trees in the groves visited anly two forty five feet in cir cumfer 0 an and d more measured three feet fra from ce the tile ground are classed ai as gi giants gilt of 01 these 2 were toned found fo forty ty four are over eighty feet in circumference circumference and several are more than a hundred one is fret feet in circumference 0 or more than thirty five in diameter secretary N ihle ble has rt quested the secretary of war to station a COM company of cavalry in the sequoia national park arid and another in the Yo yosemite emite park to prevent depredations on the these mammoth tree proves it is stat stated as d the so called Ball ballamy atily colonists who have in part perfected a tide title to the lands on which these trees stand have expressed their to it tr id their claims in spite of all opposition cin |
