and the heavy enow fell of past seasons has trimmed off the 

 limbs of the larger trees. The smaller trees seem to be Tory 

 thrifty and are unocarred except by the marks of the wander- 

 ing boar that has diced the soft bar!: with his claws. The 

 height of those narlrs will make one take an involuntary 

 glance over his shoulder to r.scuro himself that the bear has 

 left that vicinity. 



At various tines pros;ectors have located claims 

 in this vicinity and have claimed these troes, but the claims 

 have boon abandoned and the treos are still on public land in 

 the Tehee national Torost. 'Owing to the c"onco ground cover 

 there is vory littlo, if any, reproduction. One. old pros- 

 pector iiavs that ho hcs looked for seedlings eince 105U and 

 only succeeded in getting tvro, vrhich died \~hen transplanted. 

 The fallen trees ore there tuday i -. apparently the same con- 

 dition as thoy r:cre '"hon found by the earliest pioneers. It 

 is hard to roclize that some of these troos were large before 

 Colunbus discovcrod America and r.re still alive, but c.ny botan- 

 ist Till assure us that it is a fact. 



Tho largo size of the trees In the surrounding 

 forest na'.cos the Big Troos unnoticccblo and c person could 

 p.^82 within r for rods of them without knowing it, unless ho 

 wc-s trying to find thera end know what to look" for. It is 

 not uncommon to find Sugur r.ncl Yollow Pine in this vicinity 

 rith diameters from six to ton foot i nd attaining a height 

 of tvo hundred feet. 



Here the deer roam undisturbed by the sound of 

 , railroad Thistle or the honk of an automobile. The lono 

 hunter is scolded by the scuirrels, '.vithout any fear of his 



f because ho considers them too email to shoot r.t and thoy 

 feel perfectly cafe r.s they scurry up the long smooth boles 

 of trees that TonSain from six to ten thousand feet of cloar 

 lumber. 



Hot being a />oot I cannot describe their majos- 

 tlc grandeur nor write -n ode to the forost primeval, but 

 when riding beneath their spreading branches I have often 

 thought that it IB within the power of any man to plant a 

 grovo of these treos which mi-ht stand as a monument of his 

 industry for centuries to come. Other men have Indelibly 

 vrrltten their names in the hearts of men by various deodc of 

 valor, "jut it r em- ins for us who cro consecrated to the cause 

 of Concorvr tion to protect and preserve for posterity these 

 living relics of r by-ono period, and sprer.d their ^ro^eny over 

 r. vf-sily groater srea that rill some day redound to aur credit 



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