soil too poor for crops he can cut 1,000 cords of wood per year indefinitely. 

 $2.50 per cord are received on the stump for the crop, thus showing its 

 profitable return. 



The eucalyptus is especially useful for sanitary purposes. When 

 planted in low and poorly drained situations it removes stagnant water and 

 purifies the soil. This property of this most useful tree has given rise to 

 its name, "The Fever Tree" in Spain. 



But of all the varied uses to which the eucalyptus in its many parts is 

 adapted it promises to be most important from an economic point of view 

 to us here in California as the future source of supply of hardwood on 

 account of its rapid growth, the great strength of its timber, the fact 

 that it is as easily seasoned as other hardwoods of its grade as well as its 

 peculiar fitness to the climate of California. These facts all combine to 

 assure a great future to this important timber. 



REDWOOD, CALIFORNIA'S UNIQUE LUMBER 



By E. C. WILLIAMS 



HNIQUE in the lumber industry of the world stands California. She 

 alone of all timber producing lands sends forth to the marts of the 

 world the redwood. This newest of all lumbers comes from the 

 oldest of all trees. It comes from a tree of a forgotten former era 

 In the world's history. Standing alone of its kind, no living repre- 

 sentative is to be found anywhere outside the borders of this State, 

 where it has survived the cataclysms which destroyed all its fellows in the 

 vast tracts of Norway, Sweden, Spitzbergen, on the European continent, 

 and Alaska, Wyoming and Colorado on this. In those countries are to be 

 found the fossils of the cretaceous period which show that at some former 

 age the sequoia had its being elsewhere than on the Pacific Slope of 

 California. 



True there is a tree in Japan which claims kinship to the Sequoia, but 

 the relationship, if any exist, is so distant that it would not be recognized 

 by the lordly trees of the Golden State who rear their heads in the cloud, 

 and send their roots into the soil of past centuries. 



In a belt 300 miles long and twenty wide survive the forests through 

 whose isles once roamed the prehistoric mammoth, the cave bear, and 

 the three-toed horse. What stories could these trees reveal to the delver 

 into the past were but the power of speech given, or better were it to say, 

 could the language of their whispering tops be understood. Who can tell 

 what has passed since the day when this giant of the forest started from 

 the ground a bright green shoot? Nations have changed, dynasties have 

 risen and fallen, human history and earth's geography have been as the 

 rolling waves of the sea, beside the lives of these mysterious relics of 

 the past. 



Here dwells mystery. But the iconoclastic hand of man has torn the 

 veil and commerce is driving back the shade into the regions whence it 

 came, and sending to the busy haunts of man those patriarchs of the 

 tree world with their traditions of the beginning of time. 



Thirty-seven mills, cutting 375,000,000 feet annually, are eating their 

 way into the heart of the great redwood forests of California, and the 

 question is frequently asked: How long will it last? A bit of history may 

 be the best answer to that question. 



One big lumbering company, twenty-five years ago, thought it had all 

 its timber cut, and began to look around for other tracts. That was a 

 quarter of a century ago, and while the company is cutting more than 

 twice as much lumber to-day as it was then the tract is not yet exhausted. 

 Indeed conservative men have gone so far as to say that the redwood 

 forests of California, at the present rate of cutting, will last fully 250 

 years. It is estimated that there is an average of 50,000 feet of lumber 

 to the acre of redwood forest, but it must be remembered that some of 

 these big trees contain even more than that amount. One tree alone had 

 66,500 feet cut from it. 



One of the old stories told around lumbering camps regarding the 



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