THE TWO OLDEST TREES 



trunk passing up through the roof. It has 

 a diameter of about nine and one-half feet 

 and an age of fully 1800 years. 



The oak trees growing there are of the 

 black oak family. They are numerous, 

 some of very large size and of great age. 

 They have furnished annually for cen- 

 turies, acorns, which are gathered in their 

 season, and used as an article of barter in 

 exchange for the pinon nut, by the Indians 

 of the valley with the tribes that live up 

 on the higher mountains, and on the east 

 side of the range. 



It was my pleasure to meet and know 

 Mr. Chris Jorgensen, the famous artist of 

 Carmel, and while discussing with him 

 the tree life of the valley, he told me of 

 a Sequoia somewhere in Fresno County 

 near the Kings River, which was much 

 larger than the grand old "Grizzly" of 

 the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, or of 

 any other known tree in California; also 



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