Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-28
A TRAIN FROM ONE TREE
To Be Made at Tulare for Exhibition at the
Worlds Fair.
san francisco Examiner.

San Francisco Examiner.
The Tulare people are going to exhibit
one of the results Of the California eli
mate in an altogether original way.
There is q tree in that county which
is a fair specimen OF what the redwood
can be il it grows enough. 1t stands In
a gorge deep enough to be awful, and
its topmoSt boughs, where the cones are
thickeSt, are on level with the highest
rocks on the sides OF the ravine.
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, ninety-siX
feet from the butt to the first branch,
and twenty-six feet through at the very
base.
A log OF clean, smooth wood that will
measure ninety feet in length and
average twenty 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 il to the benefit of the
Worlds Fair and the glory of Tulare.
The tree grows well up toward the
headwaters of the Kaweah river, and
the great log will be carried or moved
in some way to the railroad at Visalia,
distance Of nearly sixty miles.
1t is a stupendous undertaking. but
the people of that country do not stop
at trifes. Ia all likelihood the trunk
will be cnt 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 tho section.
In many places 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 sec
ton of the tree up the steep.
When finally the giant Of the 1ulare
woods is where it can be moved to rail-
road cars it will have cost hundreds and
hundreds of dollars, and six months will
have passed from the time the axes
started to fell it.
Then the important work will begin.
The log will be made whole by the
putting together Of tho sections. EX-
pert wOodsmen will cut it across in the
middle, making two leng tbs each - feet
long. Each of these lengths will then
be hewn into the shape Of ordinary rail
way passenger coaches.
The rough bark of the tree will be
the roof the car, and on the sides and
ends the natural wood will be left I'M
polished.
The inside will be followed out, win
dbws 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. Plat
forms will be put at the ends and ordin-
airy trucks underneath, and to prevent
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 on but for the fact that the
cars could not be more than the regula-
ton size and get over bridges aud
through tunnels safely. They will be
eleven feet wide and ten feet high.
1t is intended that the men Of Tulare
will take their wives and children to
the Columbian Exposition with the tree.
The cars will be kept on the Fair
grounds, and the delegation will make
them their home. The portions Of the
tree not used in making the coaches
will be cut up and sold as mementoes.