Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1903-07-15
BIG REDWOOD
AMERICAS TALES
TO LUMBERM.

mEniSN y lHIEIS
TO LUMBERM.
Chance for Second CT
tion by Bureau Of
That Young Shoots
Grown and the r:
What is to be dona
Of the Pacific Coast Is
has not only agitatet
is of sentimental cone
nation. The Bureau
tacking the problem
practical spirit, has W
clusions that should az
able at once to the Il
cut redwood on account
o.al value, and to those
ancient Snd marvellous
growth preserved:
The results Of this str
a bulletin by R. T. Fisl
sued by the Department
The redwood forests
merchantable yield, pro
est oil earth, many stant
900 board feet to the scr
logging represents the Ii
ment of the numbering
has ever been attained
coast. The total supply
estimated to be 100000
amount cut in 1900 was <;
with d value of S3,645,
only one-tenth ST the
United States is owned
according to the last ce
of the redwood is in tht
the stands they own are
est and most valuable In
belt.
Seems boolned TO Ex
Ever since the Spaniai
cut redwood along San F
the range of its growth h
inishing; 1t now occupies
about 1000 sduare miles:
last so years several hundl
acres Of timber have bee
and the good lands put int
or turned into pasture: As
the redwood forests have
has come to be pretty 6,
leved that the tree is doc
tinction.
The popular idea that t
has no chance of survival
founded. The studies of the
Forestry have proved that !
of a new growth of redwoo
old trees have been remov
cellent: Given half d chant
wood rtproduces itself Ijy 81
astonishing vigor. Measrrer
by the bureau on cut-over
that in 80 years, in a fair
dense stand, trees will be
inches in diameter, 80 feet /
ing 1000 feet board measl
acre.
Hope for Future Grow
Realizina-tlAAA--t,---1ef'n
/ attempts to check the cuttint
| itself to proving that it is W.
| TO the lumbermen to do less
the young trees in logging '
wood lands, and to hold such
a. second crop. The study
Germs itself with young seco
rather than with mature Il
timbered areas rather than
virgin forest. Where atte
giyen the old forests and I
lubering, it was only that
knowledge might be gained
growth and how to deal wi
The redwood of California
a genus of which the big
only other species now aliv
allied to the cypress; and tt
is often called by the same
they are botanically distinct
other. They do not even c
same situations. The big tire
scattered bodies on the we'
i. the Sierra Nevada, while t
forms dense forests on the
Of the Coast Range.
Il TaIIest American 7
IS The redwood grows to
n height than any other Ain
II but in girth and in age it
id by the big trees Of the :
it the slopes 225 feet is abo'
32 mum height and 10 feet
diameter, while on the fat
the conditions, it grows to
OF high, with a diameter Of
ne of the redwood cut is frol
90 years old. After the tree
al the oge of 500 years, it us
he to die down from the tor
,al off in growth. The olde
IN found during the bureaus
had begun life 1873 years
The bark of the tree o.
,es remarkable resistance to
tly cept under great heat it
tho bustible. 1t is of a reddis
nts fibrous in texture, and
lies grown redwoods, a fiutct
are Moisture available for
soft the first need of the red
.ich hilly tract of forest
The Wherever a small gully,
, a basin is so placed as to I
common amount of seeps
ever a creek flows by, 7
Sig are sure to be largest. "
en- of the soil affects the d
the the redwood, moisture
an phere regulates its dis
who limits of the sea fogs are
hy- limits Of the tree. The FOL
saws tered by winds, flow inl'
ated mountains. Western eXl
sible most of the mist they
/ to those higher ridges abo
SUBJ which support, in conse
scattering growth of re
The trees vitality is
1ann dures so many vicissitu
tates from so many accidents
Tho of its existence, that [