200 Seguoia Forests. [ZOE 
rivers, partly in Fresno and partly in Tulare counties. It lies in the 
contiguous corners of the four Townships 13 and 14, Ranges 27 and 
28. Its original area cannot be computed at less than 2,000 or 
3,000 acres, but so much of it has been stripped of its timber that its 
limits are hard to determine. Here have been the principal milling 
_ operations in Sequoia for the past twenty years. Four sections of it, 
containing what is known as the ‘‘ Fresno Big Trees,” have already 
been reserved by the United States Government, it being the only 
reservation ever made in these southern forests for the purpose of 
saving the Sequoia. This is the reservation recently confirmed by 
the Hon. Secretary of the Interior, and containing the famous big 
tree known as “ General Grant,’ said to be forty feet in diameter. 
Passing on to the west side of Township 14, Range 28, we find 
along Redwood Creek a forest of some 3,000 acres. This most 
magnificient growth has also passed from the possession of the Gov- 
ernment to private ownership. Farther south, we next come to a 
forest on the North Fork of the Kaweah River in the northwest por- 
tion of 15-29 and extending northward across the line into 14-29. 
There are here upwards of 1,500 acres of Big Tree forest still owned 
by the Government. The whole township is timbered and well 
worth preserving, aside from the Sequoia. 
A few miles southward brings us to the Sequoia tract, known as 
the Giant Forest, located in the contiguous corners of Townships 
15 and 16, Ranges 29 and 30, where there is found an area of some 
2,300 acres of Sequoia. This, although still in the hands of the 
Government, is claimed by individual locators, by reason of their 
locations having been made in good faith and filed previous to the 
withdrawal from entry of these townships, as explained hereafter. It 
is generally thought that they will substantiate their claims and 
acquire the land, and public sentiment seems to favor it. Passing 
to the Middle Fork of Kaweah River, we find several groves, some 
of which are still in the hands of the Government, but there exists 
on this branch no Sequoia tract that could properly be called a 
forest. : 
Southward, on the East Fork of the Kaweah River, we come 
_to what is designated as the Mineral King Forest, from a mining 
_ district of that name, comprising, with the detached groves, some 
- 3,000 acres; the main body is in Township 17, Range 30, the 
township whose recent restoration to entry gave rise to the move- 
