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in Tulare County; and, with mere mention of the better known 
northern groves—the Calaveras, South Park, Tuolumne, Merced, 
Mariposa, Fresno and Washington—we will therefore confine our 
sketch to a description of this region only. 
The first, going southward, and probably the largest compact 
body of all, is located on the south slope of the South Fork of King’s 
River, in Fresno County. It is designated on your map as Con- 
verse Basin Forest. Its location may be given more exactly as in the 
northeastern portion of Township 13 South, Range 27 East, and the 
northwestern part of Township 13 South, Range 28 East, M. D. M., 
the larger part being in the latter township. [Please bear in mind 
that all townships and ranges hereafter given are south and east of 
Mount Diablo Meridian.] The area of this tract is about 5,cco 
acres. These figures can at best be but an approximation. For 
most part, the Sequoia country is so broken, and the variation of 
density of growth so great, and the limits so vaguely defined, that 
an exact estimation is almost impossible; besides, it is likely to be 
misleading from the fact that it represents in some instances what 
might be called a heavy continuous growth, while in others it is 
more or less broken and scattering. In nearly all cases there is 
found mixed with the Sequoia a plentiful growth of other timber, 
principally yellow and sugar pine ( Pinus ponderosa and Pinus Lam- 
bertiana), with a sprinkling here and there of fir, cedar and other 
growths. However, I have aimed everywhere to keep my estimates 
of areas well within bounds. This first forest, together with the one 
next in order, are owned by one of the leading lumber firms of 
California. And, next Wednesday, they celebrate at Sanger the 
completion of their forty-mile lumber flume, connecting their capa- 
cious mills in the mountains with the railroad on the plains. They 
propose to clean up everything as they go along, stripping the land 
bare and moving their mills and extending their fume from point to 
point as the timber supply becomes exhausted. It will probably 
take years for them to reach the Boulder Creek Forest, in Township 
13, Range 29, so named from the affluent of King’s River, on whose 
slopes it is found. The area of this forest and neighboring groves — 
~ Cannot be less than 1,500 acres, probably more. These two already = 
‘mentioned, lie altogether on the waters of King’s River, in Fresno 
County, but the forest next to the south, the Fresno Big ee 
- Forest, is on the divide between the waters of King’s and Kaweah | 
