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called " Oregon pine." When lumbering is 

 going on in the best Douglas woods, especially 

 about Puget Sound, many of the long, slender 

 boles are saved for spars; and so superior is 

 their quality that they are called for in almost 

 every shipyard in the world, and it is interesting 

 to follow their fortunes. Felled and peeled and 

 dragged to tide-water, they are raised again as 

 yards and masts for ships, given iron roots and 

 canvas foliage, decorated with flags, and sent to 

 sea, where in glad motion they go cheerily over 

 the ocean prairie in every latitude and longitude, 

 singing and bowing responsive to the same winds 

 that waved them when they were in the woods. 

 After standing in one place for centuries they 

 thus go round the world like tourists, meeting 

 many a friend from the old home forest ; some 

 traveling like themselves, some standing head 

 downward in muddy harbors, holding up the 

 platforms of wharves, and others doing all kinds 

 of hard timber work, showy or hidden. 



This wonderful tree also grows far northward 

 in British Columbia, and southward along the 

 coast and middle regions of Oregon and Califor- 

 nia ; flourishing with the redwood wherever it 

 can find an opening, and with the sugar pine, 

 yellow pine, and libocedrus in the Sierra. It ex- 

 tends into the San Gabriel, San Bernardino, and 

 San Jacinto Mountains of southern California. 

 It also grows well on the Wasatch Mountains, 



