Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27
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Famous Trees

One of the most interesting sightseeing
places in California for the nature lover 10
Calaveras grove famous for the grandeur ana
age of it's big trees. The grove is privately
owned and is in a small valley near the mead
waters of the San Antonio, at an eleVatlQn OF
ATOP feet In the grove are 10 trees, eacn
so feet in diameter, and more than ~ trees
between Is and 80 feet in diameter.
One of the trees, now down, the father
of the forest" must have been 400 feet
high and 40 feet in diameter. IN 1928 one
of the largest trees, go feet in circumference
and over 800 feet high, was cut down. Five
men worked rs days telling it, using large
augers. The stump of this tree mas been
smoothed off and now accommodates az
dancers. In 1858 newspaper, The Big Tree
Bulletin, was printed there
Near the stump is a section OF the trunk
25 feet in diameter and 20 feet long; beyond
lies the immense trunk as it fell, measuring
3O2 feet from the base to the extremity. Upon
this was situated barroom and tenpn alley,
stretching along it's upper surface for
distance of 81 feet, affording ample space Tor
two alley beds side by side.
At the entrance to the grove were, until
1919 two fine trees called the SentlneIs. only
one is now standing, the other having been
blown down in the great w1ndstorm OF 1919:
South of the Sentinels and to the right OF
the road on the hillside stands tree over
IA feet in diameter, which has been named
Old Dowd in honor of the dlscoverer OF the
grove which discovery was maze IN 1907.
The south grove extends three ana one-naH
miles and contains 1880 large trees. ANY
tree there under Is feet in circumference Is
not considered large tree.
Missionary Profiteers
The Rev. DR.. John Marquis, explorer and
missionary among the Eskimos, attributes
their hardihood, vigor and great endurance
to the fact that they getIsufflc1ent v1tamlnes
through eating almost the whole carcass or
their kill including brain, nerve and glandu.
lar organs Otherwise it is hard to conceive,
he saws, of their being able to make such good
use of an almost purely meat diet, and one
80 freighted with fat. DR.. Marquis says that,
as the white mans white bread refined sugar
and canned goods gradually penetrate into
the far north the white mans diseases are
likely to accompany them.
Not very much is known about the origin
| of the SO 900 or more Eskimos who live IN
region where the temperature reaches ana
remains for long periods at from 40 to 70
degrees below zero.
Almost the only edible plant growth in
this frozen land is the reindeer moss, the
| food of the great herds of reindeer that in
| habit Northern Siberia. This moss and oc-
| casionaI patches of coarse wild grass are not
| considered palatable and are seldom eaten by
man.
But the Eskimo is not particular about the
cut of his meat He eats everything ply
sically possible of a reindeer or fish or polar
bear (and what he does not eat he wears or
makes into houses or tools). Particularly
does he seem to relish the frozen stomach or
the reindeer The stomach, full OF finely
chewed reindeer moss, he freezes solid and
stores away according to DR. Marquis, until
he is vtamine-hungry, when piece is sliced
off, thawed out and eaten as rare dellcacy'