The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-28


which, in the summer, often envelop
the redwood forests.
In Mcndocno County, private rail-
roads, few miles in length, are used
for transporting the immense amount
of lumber from the woods to the coast
In Sonoma County, an original and
successful piece of railroad engineering
is found. which is nothing less taan a
road-b bed in the trce-tops. Between
Clipper Mills and the redwood forests
is d deep ravine. In order to cross the
rayine the trees are sawed OF ON
level each side, and the timber and ties
are laid on the stumps. Two huge red.
wood trees stand side by side i'll the CEN
ter of the rayine, with their tops cut oil
seventy-iive feet above their roots.
The make q substantial central sup
port and cars heavily laden with huge
saw-logs pass over this bridge in per-
feet safety.
This county also boasts of several ex-
tremely tall tree e., one of which is said
to be fourteen feet in diameter and
three hundred and forty-o.ght feet in
height Another is claimed to be nine
teen feet in diameter and three hundred
and lfty-seyen feet high.
The little Baptist Church of Santa
Rosa, the dimensions of which are fifty
six by ninety-siX feet, was wholly built
from the redwood tree, and many
shingles from the giant were left after
its completion.
The pleasures of camp life are appre-
ciated by numerous Californians, and
an Old redwood stump is sometimes
found very useful as temporary kitch-
en-. A certain person, Writing from one
of these camps, says:
"Our kitchen is redwood stump.
measuring exactly forty-live feet round
and neary twenty-five feet across the
widest part The fire is in the center,
and a right royal campfire it makes at
| night, when we sing to the notes OF the
either, or listen to the owl or wildcats
stirring in the bushes"
| Even larger stumps of redwood than
| this one may be seen as 4 person rides
through the Contra Costa forests, the
| trees having been cut in early days for
| lumber or hrewood.
The great tree, Sequoia-gigantea, Of
| the Sierra Nevada was first seen by
white men in 1852, when a hunter by
| the name of Dowd reached the Calavc-
raS grove ana a-'erWafd ie4 Ie" MI
IeI' 10 liie ,ol' A!thou3h i@I ger Ihall
OAe coast REDWOOD u IS not 50 Aanu-
some Il Tree 'ne pran'HeS Deili@ Shor'cr'
inc spray less graceful ana me species
nowhere forms It FOREST py i'seI' put IS
INTERIM ikea WIN o'ner cohHerouS Iiees'
NANNY sugar pines.
LlShI OF ION OF theSee groves nave
peeh u''.GFrFeo III various countess on
ou1 one ol lNo9e III : "iaFeIaS county
~. so'iic o. IHe i@IS,s 81 trees
me vHe SIdLl-A!lIeF, mas I'''u some
Oh tAeSe hloharchS III me oIS1' ana inc
largest sage can pass through one Oh
me uead grants WHAe puI ohG-ha OF
'he interior q tne Tree mas Oeen cut
away
-, one me Oh tnese lrceS' me MotnGr OF
me oToII' IS stripped OIL us PARK IoF
one hundred ana sixteen rect lrom the
ground anu Is Ihree hundred ana TWEEN
ty-seNen Ieet III hel9hI III was hiuch
larger IN circumference before Iosln 8
the Dark Dut no" II IS seVehty-elgh'
Ieei, anu a parry Oh twenty persons
WIN arms oulS'IelcIeu ana lahus
Join !,;L can Jusl reach around IT, a
paw mon - eiec'Go over 'ne stump %
one S'anl' men mas d diameter o.