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office in ISSO, estimated the Redwood standing in forest then at 25,825,000,000 

 feet, board measure, and the cut of the same year at ISG.O.'il.OOO. The same 

 parties, and experts, having knowledge of conditions, ostimato the standing 

 supply of 1880 reduced by the cuts of 1881-2 to about 20,(100.000,000 in round 

 numbers. Some new discoveries of supplies have been made. Supposed to 

 equal the cuts of 1881-2. 



R dwood timber yield per acre is so much larger than that of any other 

 varietj% or any portion of country, as to seem to one, not halving " seen with 

 his own eyes," fabulous — Munchausen like. In the Russian river red wootl 

 groves (Hulburt Canyon), I measured numbers of trees. One girthed sixty 

 feet, five feet above ground. One 'elled tree measured three hundred and 

 sixty-seven feet from ground to topmost extremity. Others standing, were 

 estimated by loggers to be over four hundred feet high. In many portions 

 of this forest the interior was so dense that trees could not be felled to the 

 ground, or in fact any important movement from their natural growing per- 

 pendicular. Cutting and felling is done from the outer borders of groves. 

 A reliable gentleman, mill man, at Guerneysville, informed me that one of 

 these large Redwood trees had been worked up to a maximum of two hun- 

 dred and forty thousand feet of lumber, including all purposes for which its 

 various parts could be used. Bayard Taylor, it will be remembered, rej)orted 

 one of the "big trees" as yielding two hundred and fifty thousand feet of 

 lumber. 



While as yet but little attention is given reproduction of this valuable tim- 

 ber, it is believed by those who have given the subject thought, it can be done 

 as readily as with other varieties. Passing through portions of forests from 

 which all the original growth had been cut, all visible indications were favor- 

 able. Where undisturbed, and fire kept out, young growth was abundant 

 and of rapid development. Some experiments, on small scale, have been 

 made, growing seedlings in nurseries. But, as a rule, the same old condition 

 of affairs seems to prevail where this timber grows nitur.dly and abundant, 

 as in other timbered regions. The value is not appreciated and realized un- 

 til nature's supply is entirely exhausted. 



Eucalyptus. 



The introduction of Australian gum trees — /i''/- '///i>'/— into California and 

 other p.)rtions of the United States, where climate permits, hius given surli 

 satisfaction, and his been fraught with such beneficial results, that promi- 

 inence is here given, indulging and expres.s:ng the belief that tlx' futun- wdl 

 more than fulfill the most sanguine expectations, or predictions. Its intro- 

 duction is of comparative modern date. The more seen and known of it. 

 the more it grows in popular esteem. When in Southern (California two 

 years before, I Wiis interested in ohservations then made, and during my ia.«t 

 visit investigated with renewed interested. 



It was originallv introduced for both .sanitary and ornamenUil use.", and 

 later for fuel. It is called sometimes the " Fever Tree," because posses-scd 



