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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from Charles Willis Ward 



NO HEAVIER STANDS OF REDWOOD THAN SHOWN IN THIS ILLUSTRATION CAN BE 



FOUND IN THE REDWOOD BELT 



The tree in the left foreground is 18 feet in diameter and contains 100,000 feet of mer- 

 chantable lumber. These trees if preserved will soon produce more profit each year for the 

 State than can be obtained temporarily by their destruction, and they will prove a source of 

 increasing wealth to the State with each passing generation. 



