Sequoia 711 



In the British Museum of Natural History there is a section taken at about 

 18 feet from the ground, of a tree felled in 1892 at Fresno. The annual rings show 

 that it was 1335 years old. 



In Garden and Forest, v. 541-547, there is an account, with two excellent 

 photographs, of the felling of a large Sequoia from which a specimen was taken for 

 the Jesup Timber Collection in the Natural History Museum at New York. 

 One of the pictures shows the tree in the act of falling ; the other shows the 

 stump, which at ground level was 90 feet in girth, and on its bark and outer edge 

 fifty men are standing, and there is room for a hundred more. Mr. Moore, the 

 Superintendent of the King's River Lumber Company, on whose land the tree 

 was cut, estimated its contents at 400,000 feet, board measure, equal to about 

 40,000 cubic feet. (H. J. E.) 



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