. Our country: West. nk like othertimbers, since it contracts from the ends and not from thesides or edges, as is usual with other varieties. * Specimens of these trees are not allowed to be taken bytourists from the National Reservations. Not even a twig, orshrub, or flower is permitted to be plucked. Policemen andguards are stationed throughout the parks to prevent spolia-tion by tourists. There live, however, upon the reservationlicensed parties who have for sale the seeds of this species ofwonder-wood. Foreigners are usually the heaviest purchasers. Many young trees of the Big Tree .specie
. Our country: West. nk like othertimbers, since it contracts from the ends and not from thesides or edges, as is usual with other varieties. * Specimens of these trees are not allowed to be taken bytourists from the National Reservations. Not even a twig, orshrub, or flower is permitted to be plucked. Policemen andguards are stationed throughout the parks to prevent spolia-tion by tourists. There live, however, upon the reservationlicensed parties who have for sale the seeds of this species ofwonder-wood. Foreigners are usually the heaviest purchasers. Many young trees of the Big Tree .species have beenstarted in various parts of California, and are now growingthriftily. They are found in the streets of lyos Angeles, SanBernardino and other southern California cities. Though itmight be supposed that a tree whose age is reckoned so greatwould be of very slow growth, the young Sequoias are foundto grow quite rapidly. The Californians of one thousandyears hence may see them in their full prime. M. V. The Lumbermen of the Sierras. The Lumbermen of the Sierras. Travelling northward among the mountains from Glen-brook on Lake Tahoe, we were appalled by the desolationwhich the lumbermen have left in their wake. Clearing atract of every sound tree, they remove to another locality, onlyto leave behind them again the hastily-built shanty which hassheltered them, and a litter of chips and decaying boughs. We rode for days through regions stripped bare, andstrewn with fragments, where broad forests once and there a pine or fir, that has been rejected bn accountof its infirmity, stands alone, and seems to grieve for its lostcompanions. As often as they move, the lumbermen build a new houseand furniture, taking only the cooking utensils and beddingwith them. The old house is left open to be blown down bythe wind, crushed by the heavy winter snows, or occupied byanybody who comes along. Both the house and furnitureare frail, and the latter consists in most ca
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