$99.40 FOR ONE TREE 



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Oleander and Palms, 

 the great masses of the oleander bushes grow along hill and road sides in great profusion. 



along hill and road sides in the utmost 

 profusion, of rose bushes over houses 

 and garden, abloom all the year. 



All told, these are intimate and 

 comprehensible little islands, a land 

 of diminutive plants, houses and dis- 

 tances, along whose bright by-ways one 

 bicycles or rides, for autos are taboo, 



in Summer flannels, and returns with 

 the sense of quiet approval with the 

 hospitality of a peaceful land, richer by 

 acquaintance with new forms of in- 

 finite nature, and entertained by the 

 history of towns and harbors redolent 

 with the traditions of conquest and the 

 romance of the sea. 



$99.40 FOR ONE TREE 



THE government has received 

 $99.40 in settlement for a single 

 sugar pine tree which was cut 

 in trespass in the Stanislaus 

 National Forest, in California, and 

 which yielded more than enough actual 

 lumber to build a good-sized suburban 

 frame house. The tree scaled 18,933 

 board feet and was valued at $5.25 

 per thousand feet. 



Not many trees contain enough 

 lumber to build a two-foot board walk 

 nearly two miles long, and this is 

 believed to be the first case on record 

 in which a single tree felled in a National 

 Forest was valued at almost $100 on 

 the stump, although National Forest 

 timber is frequently sold at considerably 

 higher rates. 



