ONE LIVING ONE DEAD 



are visited annually by thousands of peo- 

 ple. It has been my experience when in 

 their presence, with others, to hear ques- 

 tions asked which could not be answered 

 by the guides or other members of the 

 party. 



"Old Grizzly," of the Mariposa grove 

 near Wawona, is undoubtedly one of the 

 oldest of living trees, and I am told that 

 David Starr Jordan puts the tree's age at 

 8000 years; it certainly looks it. 



This monarch of the forest is 104 feet 

 in circumference, which would give a 

 diameter of thirty-four feet. Near this 

 ancient tree is the "Fallen Monarch," a 

 tree of the same family, of great age and 

 which, reliable authorities say, fell to its 

 present position on the ground more than 

 a thousand years ago. I think twice that 

 time for I have proof in other trees that 

 sustain me in this conclusion. I know of 

 a tree that had fallen eighteen hundred 

 years ago, that when cut into lumber, in 



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