The San Francisco call., 1904-03-14
Collection Devoted Principally to Commercial Importance of the
Great Wealth of Counties Rich in Trees
California Forestry Department Exposition
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their entirety was considered, but for
the general reasons already given
abandoned To illustrate with the pine
family: The genus of forest trees
known botanically as "pinus" comprises
eighty classified species. These are dis
tributed unequally over the north tenn
perate zone in both hemispheres. OF
the eighty only twenty are found in
Eurasia, an aD2ellation given to a re
gion extending 5000 miles east and west
and comprising the temperate latitudes
of Europe and Asia, while sixty of the
eighty are found in North America,
extending over a region only 5000 miles
east and west, and of these sixty
twenty-five are found on the Pacific
Slope, that is, west of the Rocky Noun
tains, and of these twenty-five twenty
are found in California.
1t will be seen that California, alone,
possesses as many varieties of the
pinus family as all Europe and Asia.
OF the sequOia. which may be said
to be Indigenous and peculiar to Cali
fOrnia, we have but two classified Vari-
cites - the Gigantea and the Semper
Nirens; or, in common parlance. the
Big Trees" and the Redwood" Every
commercial aspect of these two vari-
eties of seqUoia will be presented from
beautiful and striking cabinet forms
which will illustrate their use in pub
lie and domestic architecture. to broad
planks, siding, rustic, shingles, burls
and curley redwood specimens.
SPLENDID EXHIBITS.
The floor space in the forestry build
ing at St. Louis is divided into sections
separated from each other by aisles:
these sections are 30x103 feet One-half
Of one of these has been assigned to
California's forestry exhibit, so that
Ia g1o1. IL
15xl03 feet. The authorities have per-
mitted the erection of a partition down
the center of this section. This partf-
tiOn will be constructed of vertical
planks and will be sixteen feet high
and will of itself constitute a splendid
exhibit of the four leading commercial
woods Of the State, namely redwood.
white pine, sugar pine and fir. The
partition will be 103 feet long by six
teen feet high, and the planks compos-
ing it viii be the very finest CONNER
cial specimens that can be obtained.
1t viii be surmounted by a beautiful
cornice. affording an opportunity for
other expressions of the commercial
woods.
A beam and panel ceiling twelve feet
square. made of the finest specimens OF
redwood obtainable, surmounted on
four beautiful columns, highly pol
ished. will stand at one corner
of the exhibition space. classical
facade, twenty-six feet long. compris-
ing five arches. surmounted by an
artistic entablature and cornice and
composed Of the two species of sequoia,
will stand on the aisle lying at the
center of the space.
The other corner of the space will be
occupied by a sugar pine log "cut
alive" that is. with the bark left on
the edges of the planks, and reproduced
as log by placing sticks equal to the
thickness of the saw kerf between the
blanks: with the exception that the
center plank, which is seven feet wide.
twelve inches thick and sixteen feet
long. will be displayed by sticks twelve
inches in thickness. thus completing
the circular form of the original log
and this center plank will be placed
edgewise on top of the log so recon-
structed.
AS a companion to this notable ex-
hibit. a yellow pine log (now known as
white pine) sixty inches in diameter
and cut alive will be reproduced as AZ
log.
SPECIMENS IN VARIETY.
Accompanying these will be the very
best commercial specimens Of redwood,
sugar pine, white pine and fir, en-