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Photograph by W. A. Fishbaugh 



ONE REDWOOD TREE AS A SOURCE OF BUILDING MATERIAL 



An order for 100,000 feet of lumber is not to be disregarded by the lumber dealer, for 7(H), 000 feet is a good deal of merchandise in his line. To a giant 

 redwood, however, it is nothing at all. In this picture may be seen Luther Burbank leaning against one of the patriarchs of the Ah Pah tract. This par- 

 ticular tree is eighteen feet in diameter and would easily yield 100,000 feet of merchantable lumber. The Ah Pah tract in Northern California, owned by 

 Charles Willis Ward, contains many of these giants, and it is unlikely that heavier stands of timber can be found in the Redwood belt than those in this 

 oeighborhood. Among these trees there are veterans which were well grown at the beginning of the Christian Era. Some of them are 3OOO years old. 



