ONE LIVING ONE DEAD 



These trees, as stated before, I feel sure, 

 are direct ancestors of the trees of today, 

 and as to their age when alive it may in- 

 terest you to know something definite. I 

 have used great care and a strong magni- 

 fying glass in counting the yearly growth 

 of these trees, and my examination shows 

 that on an average one is safe in using 

 eighteen rings, sixteen rings and twelve 

 rings as the representation of an inch 

 growth of the diameter of the cedar, the 

 cypress and the pine trees. You will not 

 go far astray when you come across a 

 cedar log twelve inches in diameter near 

 the butt if you declare that it was 108 

 years old. A cypress of the same diam- 

 eter would be 96 years old, and a pine 

 of the same diameter would be 72 years 

 old. This is the result I have obtained 

 by carefully counting polished sections 

 of these different trees which I secured 

 where they now lie exposed; the same 

 rule applies to larger or smaller trees. 



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