THE FIGHT AT THE TIMBER-LINE 



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Asahel Curtis 



TIMBER OUTPOSTS ON GUARD IN TATOOSH PARK 



In the background rises Mount Rainier, the pride of the State of Washington, impregnable 



to the attacks of the tree hosts. 



death grapple on the eery slopes of high 

 mountains do the trees have to make their 

 last stand so far from the summits that 

 are their objectives as in the Himalayan 

 war zone. 



COMMUNIQUES FROM THE HIMALAYA 

 BATTLE LINE 



There are many sectors and salients in 

 the timber-line of the Himalayas, and it 

 will be interesting to epitomize some of 

 the communiques that come from them. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Workman, in their "Two 



Summers in the Ice-wilds of Eastern 

 Karakorum" and their ' 'Tee - bound 

 Heights of the Mustagh," give some in- 

 teresting pictures of the marching hosts 

 that carry the warfare of the trees into 

 the clouds. At Kapaln a rajah took them 

 into his garden and showed them a walnut 

 tree only two feet high that already was 

 in bearing. That year it had produced a 

 crop of three walnuts. 



At another place they found evergreen 

 trees, mostly cedars, boldly clinging to 

 positions in niches in the vertical or 



