Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-10
GIANT TREES.
Enumeration Of the Great Trees OF the
World and Their Location.

! In British Columbia there is a stump
of a giant tree in which a family of five
persons have their home. Other Z
| statements about large trees: % The
! largest tree in the world is the giant
/ redwood in the California forest called
| the General Grant tree. 1t is los feet
in circumference at the base. It's
bark is nearly two feet thick, and the
trunk is free of limbs to hight OF LA
feet. where it is still eleven feet in
diameter. The tree stands on Mt. Rob
Roy. These giant trees are not con-
sidered old until they are 5000 years
of age. CD Grizzly Giant, in the
Mariposa big tree grove, Yosemite val
ley. National Park. California. is IS
feet 10 inches in girth five feet from
the ground: hight. 800 feet (3) The
tallest trees in the world are the Aus
tralian eucalyptus, reaching total
altitude of $50 feet. One is 494 feet.
The biggest are the mammoth trees Of
California. some of which are 276
375 feet in hight and los feet In cir
conference at the base. Cd The hight
and circumference of the big trees of
California are about 325 feet and 100
feet. respectively. for the notably large
tree in the world is in California Cir
conference six feet from the ground.
154 feet s inches diameter more thar
81 feet. High not given, but If its
proportions are i'm the same ratio as
other great trees OF the glacial epoch
it is 555 feet above ground-thc exact
hight of the Washington Monument.
Only five such trees remain. and they
are likely to be destroyed by lumber
men. They are bored with augers aud
riven with powder and dynamite, each
blast destroying thousands of feet.
60 A large Baptist church which
stands in the city of Santa Rosa. Cal,
was constructed entirely from single
tree. That includes the woodwork OF
the structure. The tree from which
the timbers, lumber and singles were
cut was a giant California redwood.
considerable quantity OF the lumber
was left over after the church build
ing was completed. This building has
a spirc seventy feet high: an audience
room capable of seating 800; parlor
capable of seating eighty; u pastors
study 14x20 feet, a vestibule and toilet
room. The building is 35x80 feet. 90
In the churchyard at Tule, neas
Oaxaca. Mexico, is q giant cypress. ii
is asserted that the distance around
it's trunk. six feet from the ground, -
IA feet and 2 inches DIR. Kuntzc IN
his long account of the present condi-
ton of the tree, says it is remarkably
vigorous and wears the weight of forty
centuries almost jauntily. If this tree
is not the largest in the world it at
least exceeds in thickness all trees OF
which measurements have been tax
en-. De Candolle's measurements gave
the diameter as ffty-seven feet. The
diameter of the seruoia, which photo
graphs have made familiar by the
wagon road passing through it, IL
thirty feet, not much more than hat
that of the Tule cypress The largest
baobabs and other African giants are
from ninety-six to 112 feet in circum-
ference, girthing only about two
thirds as much as the Mexican tree
There is considerable discrcpancF.
however. in the figures of the circum-
ference of the Tule tree 120 to loi
feet) owing. Dr. Kuntze explains, 20
different ways of measuring it. Some
persons merely extend tape arouno
the tree. while others include all the
cavities and prominences of the trunk
in their measurements.-St. LOUIS
Post Dispatch.