Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-11
The Giant Grove Of Mariposa.

CLARK's Station, AIariposa County, is
the point at which staging ends and
horseback riding begins ON the trip to the
route. II is also the point from which
the Mariposa Big Tree Grove is
visited, the distance being but five
miles. Clsrk's is one of the old
est stations on any of the routes. Mr..
Clark settled here in 1857, and lived en-
tirely alone for ten years, his nearest
neighbOr being sixteen miles off The
trail to the Big Trees is good one, and
the ride through the balmy forest of mag
niticent pine-many of which are four TO
six feet in diameter and $50 feet in height
is alone worth the trip up here, even if
there were no other or larger trees to be
seen. The grove contains 600 trees, about
dozen of which are $50 to 275 feet in
height, and have circumference of seventy
FIVE to nearly a hundred feet. Grizzly
Giant" is perhaps the largest in circum-
ference, but the skyward height TO which
he once lifted his hoary head has been
blasted, Nothing can produce more won
der and veneration than this magnificent
old veteran of the forest who has crossed
his immense limbs in these mountsins and
sung his II Dlian songs in every storm for
calculation which has been made of the
az e Of the largest trees, some estimates
placing it at 2 800 years. One ofthe limbs
OF the Grizzly Giant" was as large as the
majority of pine trees. The smallest tree
would not attain height of more than 30
feet in the longest lifetime of man. If not
pruned, they will tlolrish n thousand years
hence, when even the remembrance of us
will have been lost in the declying dust of
tens of generations yet to come Ii these
feelings produce awe, the fact that nearly
every tree in the grove has been damaged
many of them fatally-by the ravages of
fire, produces sadness. | was glad to learn
from Mr. Clark, however, that most of
this damage occurred before white settle
ment. The Indians willfully made fires
to sweep off the brush, with the object of
making hunting better, and their trails
easier. 1t would not have Iuflled the
solidity of the Indian nature if all the big
tree groves of the State had been swept of,
so long as his hungry man was more easily
provided for One cannot look up to the
top Of the big trees without throwing the
head far back or lying down. They soar
aloft with an aTTow-like straightness, and
receive tn morning suns greeting, viii e
yet the loftiest pine tops are IN compare
tive shade.-COT San Francisco BuHetan.
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ONE of the characteristics of hotel
clerks is illustrated in an incident which
occurred in Saratoga Gen. Sherman
arrived at midnight at prominent hotel
dressed in an old soiled duster buttoned
close TO his throat, with his struggling red
beard radiating in thousand separate and
distinct directions, and without giving his
name inquired if he could have room.
The clerk in the blandest manner informed
him that he had just one left, rear room
in the fourth story When the clerk had
read the name of the distinguished guest,
he had no difficulty in finding a splendid
room vacant on the ground iiJor in front.
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Some idea of the amount of money
expended for tobacco may be formed from
the fact that In New York city, during
1870, nearly 1900 900 pounds of tobacco
were sold, and more than 5000, 600 pounds
beside were shipped TO foreign ports
making total of nearly 20 000, 900 pounds
as the transactions of one year in New
York alone. In Great Britain, il is esti-
mated that Al 600 900 pounds of tobacco
were consumed in 1859 the latest year for
which there are official returns.
"A Cold Cut-The White Mountain
" Notch T" in winter.