THE TWO OLDEST TREES 



of his determination to go and find it and 

 see for himself. 



In the month of August, 1913, I started 

 out to find that tree, going by the way of 

 Visalia, Exeter, and finally bringing up 

 at the little town of Sanger, Fresno 

 County. I had decided to make the camp 

 in the General Grant Grove of Big Trees 

 my headquarters. While at Sanger mak- 

 ing arrangements for transportation, by 

 a singular coincidence I met the son of 

 Thomas Hume of Muskegon, Michigan, 

 who is the vice-president of the Hume 

 Lumber Company. We had not talked 

 long before we found much in common, 

 both as to friends and former business as- 

 sociates; we were both from Michigan. 

 Of course I asked him about the route I 

 intended to take and sought of him ad- 

 vice such as I needed, mentioning the 

 object of my travels. Imagine my sur- 

 prise when he quietly remarked: "We 

 own that tree; we call it the 'Boole Tree' 



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