BIG TREES OF CALIFORNIA. 



29 



Tulare County — Continued. 



TOWNSHIP 21 SOUTH, RANGE 32 EAST. 



No. of 

 section. 



ma?" claim' Name of owner. 



Residence. 



^ 



, Acres. 

 115 1 I'^O 



Cornelius A. Davidson . . 



San Bernardino 



5 



88 i 80 

 113 ' 240 

 113 400 

 113 : SO 





San Francisco, Gal. 

 Detroit, Mich. 

 Do. 



g 



Estate of John P Fleitz 





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18 



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Do. 









TOWNSHIP 22 SOUTH, RANGE 31 EAST. 



35 113 



400 Estate of John P. Fleitz Detroit, Mich. 



TOWNSHIP 23 SOUTH, RANGE 31 EAST. 



1 



113 



&40 



2 



113 



WO 



3 



113 



520 



10 



113 



40 



11 



113 



440 



12 



113 



640 



13 



113 



480 



Estate of John P. Fleitz. 



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....do 



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....do 



....do 



....do 



Detroit, Mich. 

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 Do. 



TOWNSHIP 23 SOUTH, RANGE 31 EAST. 



6 



113 

 113 

 113 



40 



240 



40 



Kstate of John P. Fleitz 



Detroit, Mich. 

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LUMBERING THE BIG TREES. 



The lumbering of the Big Tree is de.structivc to a most unusual 

 degree. In the tirst place the enormous size and weight of the trees 

 necessarily entails very considerable Ijreakage when one of them 

 falls. Such a tree strikes the ground with a force of many hundreds 

 or even thousands of tons, so that even slight inequalities are suffi- 

 cient to smash the brittle trunk at its upper extremity into almost use- 

 less fragments. The loss from this cause is great, but it is only one 

 of the sources of waste. The great diameter of the logs and, in spite 

 of the lightness of the wood, their enormous weight make it impossi- 

 ble to handle many of them without breaking them up. For this pur- 

 pose gunpowder is the most available means. The fragments of logs 

 blown apart in this way are not only often of wasteful shapes, but 

 unless veiy nice judgment is exercised in preparing the })last, a great 

 deal of the wood itself is scattered in useless splinters. (See Pis. IX, X. ) 



At the mill, where waste is the rule in the manufacture of lumber 

 in the United States, the Big Tree makes no exception. This waste, 

 added as it is to the other sources of loss already mentioned, makes a 

 total probably often considerably in excess of half the total volume of 

 the standing tree; and this is only one side of the matter. 



The Big Tree stands as a rule in a mixed forest composed of many 

 species. The result of Sequoia lumbering upon this forest is best shown 

 bj the photographs. (See Pis. IX, X, XI, XII, XIII.) The destruc^ 

 tion caused by the fall of the enormous trees is in itself great, but the 

 principal source of damage is the immense amount of debris left on 



