REDWOOD CANYON DEEDED TO 

 UNITED STATES 



A M< >ST public-spirited gift to the 

 ** Nation has come from William 

 Kent, of Chicago, win has just deeded 

 to the Inited States _>' 15 acres of pri- 

 meval redw 1 forest on the southern 



slope of Mount Tamalpais, about six 

 miles from the city of San Francisco. 

 The land \vas deeded to the C,;ivern- 

 ment with the approval of Mr. Pin- 

 chot. Chief of the Forest Service. The 

 papers have now gone to the Secre- 

 tarv i if the Interior, and a proclamation 

 declaring the canyon a National Mon- 



ot reilw 1 timber alone i- now val- 

 ued ,-it more than SI;<>.<HK.) , ,\\ tin- 

 market, besides other timber worth 



$5O,l " I >. 



The canyon- ,,f Tamalpai- which 

 drain into San Franci-co l'.a\' \\erc 

 cut clean \ear> ago. and the redwond 

 obtained from them went into the coii- 

 >tructiou of the old San I ; ranci-co. 

 The giants on tin- tract e-caped the 

 axe, hoxvever, chielly becau-e the out- 

 let is on the ocean side, instead of the 

 bav side, and also because the varion- 



its six or eight years old 



ument will be signed at an early date. 

 This means that more of Califor- 

 nia's redw 1 giant- will be -aved for 



the scientific study and pica-lire of the 

 whole country, in fact, the whole 

 world,, for the great sequoias are found 

 nowhere except in the ('.olden State. 

 This grove given to the * '. >vernmc'K 

 by Mr. Kent is one of the few tracts 

 of redwood fore-t to be found in the 

 natural state in California to-day. T 

 land is said to have cost Mr. Kent 

 $47.000 some years ago 5 but its stand 



owners of the land have', for s 

 tal rea-on-. jealously guarded the lim- 

 ber from harm or destruction. M . 

 ern methods of log-ing would make 

 short work of the timber, and would, 

 beside-, put a handsome profit in tin- 

 hands of tin- owner-. 



It i- tlii' intention to name \\\\< Na- 

 tional Monument the Muir \Voods. 

 after John Muir. the noted naturalist. 

 Redwood, or I'iu Tree, i- the dominat- 

 ing S] . towering hi-h above every- 

 thing else, and forming fullv thr. 



