St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-03
OUT OF ONE TREE.

California Will Send a Novelty of
Its Forests to the Worlds Fair.
The Tulare people are going to ex-
| hibit one of the results of the California
climate in an altogether original way.
says the San Francisco Examiner.
There is Tree in that county which is
fair specimen of what the redwood
can be if it grows enough. 1t stands in
a gorge deep enough to be awful, and Its
topmOst bOughS, where the cones are
the thickeSt, are on a level with the
highest rocks on the sides OF the ravlne.
1t is not cut yet, so the measurements
so far taken may be at fault bit one
way or the other. but they are near
enough the truth to make safe betting.
The tree is 800 feet high, SO feet from
the butt to the first branch, and 70 feet
through at the very base.
A log of clean. smooth wood that will
measure 90 feet in length and average
20 feet in diameter can easily be cut out
Of it.
That is what the Tulare people pro-
pose to do, and having the log they will
utilize it to the benefit of the worlds
fair and the glory of Tulare.
The tree grows we'll up toward the
head waters of the Kaweak river, and
the great log will have TO be carried or
moved in some way to the railroad at
VisaIia, distance of nearly sixty miles.
1t is a stupendous undertaking but
the people of that country do not stop
at trIfIeS. In all likelihood the trunk
will be cut in sections lengthwise, and
then the sections will be put on trucks
and taken over the log road. Ok teams
will do the hauling. probably score OF
span to the section.
In many places a road will have to be
cut through and built up. Crooks and
turns and PERCEPTIONS slantS Will have
to be avoided, and often when the road
is uphill it will require the combined
strength of all the oxen to haul one sec
ton of the tree up the steep.
When finally the giant or the TulaTe
woods is where it can be moved on rail-
road cars, it will have cost hundreds
and hundreds of dollars, and six months
will have been passed from the time
the men with axes started to fell 1t.
Then the more important work will
commence.
The log will be made whole by the
putting together of the sections. Expert
WoodSmen will cut it across in the mid
die, making TWO lengths, each fOrty-fiye
feet long. Each of these lengths will
then be hewn into the shape of ordinary
railway passenger coaches.
The rough bark of the tree will be the
roof of the car, and on the sides and
ends the natural wood Will be left I'M
polished.
The inside will be followed out, win
dows and doors put in, and the interior
finished after the fashion of Pullman
cars One will be buffet and dining
car, with apartments for bath. barber
shop and kitchen. The other will be
sleeper with an observation room.
Platforms will be put at the ends and
ordinary trucks underneath. and, to pre-
vent the transformed tree from falling
to pieces under any circumstances,
heavy bands of iron will be put around
the body of the car.
The tree would have been left with
the bark all OH but for the fact that the
ears could not be more than the regula-
ton size and get over bridges and
through tunnels safely. They will be
about eleven feet wide and ten feet
high,