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TEANSACTIONS OF THE 



The Third Revenue District comprises that portion of Placer County 

 situated between the Middle and JS'orth Forks of the American Eiver, 

 extendiuii; in length from the junction of these branches to the State line 

 at Lake Tahoe,a distance of about eig-ht}- miles, the average Avi(Jth being 

 about twenty miles. Its surface is uneven, being that of one main divide, 

 having a general descent from what is known as the second summit of 

 the Sierra Nevadas to the junction of the above named rivers, divided as 

 it approaches its southern extremity into some four minor parallel ridges 

 by deep and craggy cartons. These ridges, together with the northern 

 end of the main divide, are again carved by numerous ravines, putting 

 into the rivers on either side, or into the caiions that penetrate the 

 main divide. There is also a small poi'tiou of the district that falls off 

 from the summit to the State line. 



These ridges and hillsides are covered with a splendid growth of pine 

 timber, furnishing the miners with an abundant supply of excellent lum- 

 ber. 



Mineral is the cliief resource, this region being the inost abundant 

 gold producing section in this county. Gold, .as yet, istbe only mineral 

 productof consequence, though I have no doubt that in time silver mining 



" The circiimferenne of the trees was measured above the swell of the roots, about six feet, 

 where the stem takes its proper form. 



" Several measurements, originally made with too high an angle, were taken over again wiih a 

 longer base, so as to avoid the error of refraction in the glasses of the mirrors. 



" We trust, therefore, that the following measurements will be found to be correct : 



Arbor Vitas Queen.., 

 Pride of the Forest. 



Andrew Johnson 



Baj' State. 



Edward Everett 



Henr.y W. Beeeher 



William C. Brj'ant 



Abraham Lincoln 



Mother of the Forest. 



Daniel Webster 



GeneralJaekson 



General Scott 



General Washington. 

 Beauty of the Forest. 



Two Sentinels 



Old Kentucky 



Mother and Son 



T. Starr King 



Trinity 



Sakm Witch. 

 Henry Clay.., 

 Empire State. 

 Vermont 



Granite State 



John Torrey (Nobis). 



Name of Tree. 



(All the above named trees are the Sequoia Gigantea.) 



A Sugar Pine {P. Lrrmhertiann). 

 A Yellow Pine {P. Eiujelmnnn).. 

 Another of same species 



Circum. 

 Feet. 



"The stump of (he " Origin.il Big Tree" measured in si.x diameters gives for mean, twenty- 

 three feet cue and one third inches diameter inside of the bark, which was two feet thick." 



