The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-07-21
MARVELLOUS DIMENSIONS.

A hollow cylinder or burnt cavity eX-
ends through the trunk 900 feet, large
enough for d person to ride through on
horseback. Walking upon the trunk,
and looking from its uprooted base, the
mind can scarce conceive its prodigious
dimensions while on either hand tower
his giant sons and daughters, forming the
most impressive scene in the forest The
grove contains ten trees each thirty feet
in diameter, and over seventy that are be
tween fifteen and thirty feet.
In 1853 one of the largest trees, 90 feet
in circumference, and over 800 feet high,
was cut down. Five men worked 20
days in telling it, using large augurs.
The stump of this tree has been smooth
ed eff, and now forms the floor of a house,
upon which 80 dancers can be easily &C
commodated Near the stump lies the
inlmense trunk, measuring 302 feet to its
extremity. Upon this was situated bar
and ten-pin alley, stretching along its
upper surface a distance of 81 feet, af-
fording ample space for two alleys side
by side. @
Abort 80 feet from this stump stand
the 1.-TWO Sentinels," each over 800 feet
high, and the larger % feet in diameter.
The carriage road approaching the hotel
passes between the Two Sentinels." On
hillside to the south stands a tree over
IA feet in diameter, which has been
christened Old Dowd, in honor of the
discoverer 7g
The /" Mother of the Forest " has been
stripped of her bark for 116 feet upward
from the ground. It is, of course, dead,
and the top limbs are beginning to fall.
Near the top a small tree, supposed to be
a sugar pine, has taken root in the body
of the g Mother" and isapparently intent
on coming to something. This tree is 1927
feet high, and without the bark rs feet
in circumference.
The Fallen Monarch" presents the
bare section of his large trunk, which has
to all appearance been down for centuries.
1t is still Is feet in diameter, though all
the bark and much of the wood have been
wasted away by time, what is left is per-
fectly sound but the upper half or two
thirds, which struck the earth with great
est force in its fall has all disappeared, and
trees quite century old are growing
where it struck. The tree must have
been over three hundred feet high and
bVCH hfC 3CCU LII 01dLuCGC1s OedAA
King is the highest standing tree in the
grove, three hundred and sixty-six feet.
/" Daniel O'Connel" and Edward Ever
EFT stand near by. They are young trees
say eight hundred years old-and quite
vigorous 1t would be tedious to enumer
ate each tree with its name and dimen-
sions and we have selected few OF the
most prominent to give she reader some
idea of the grove. There are quite num-
Der of young trees say from ten to three
hundred years old from forty to two hun
dred feet high.-They are all growing
finely, and promise, barring accidents of
wind and fire, to be well brought up
middle aged trees of their kind, in about
one thousand years. We spent several
days IL the valley surfeiting ourselves
with enjoyment and collecting curiosities
for the folks at home The writer was
the recipient of a little big tree, four inch
es high and estimated to be about four
months old. 1t could not have been
weaned, for all his coaxing and nursing
since has been in vain-the poor little
thing has dropped and died.