. Elementary woodworking . the world. They both Ijelong to the cone-bearing(coniferous) group, and the needles are only three quar-ters of an inch longr and the little cones an inch. o The wood is reddish, as the name implies, not unlikered cedar, but is softer and is used for many purposeson the Pacilic coast. The big trees are now cArefully guarded by thegovernment. One grove alone which contains sevenhundred of these fine trees, called the Mariposa Grove,has been reserved as a national park, and is watchedcarefully to keep out forest fires, etc. Many of the best known of these trees are giv
. Elementary woodworking . the world. They both Ijelong to the cone-bearing(coniferous) group, and the needles are only three quar-ters of an inch longr and the little cones an inch. o The wood is reddish, as the name implies, not unlikered cedar, but is softer and is used for many purposeson the Pacilic coast. The big trees are now cArefully guarded by thegovernment. One grove alone which contains sevenhundred of these fine trees, called the Mariposa Grove,has been reserved as a national park, and is watchedcarefully to keep out forest fires, etc. Many of the best known of these trees are givennames. One is called Uncle Toms Cabin, because ofa peculiar opening at the base. The most famous perhaps is the ^^ Grizzly one is ninety-three feet in circumference at thegroimd, and its first branch is two hundred feet abovethe earth and eight feet in diameter. It is consideredthe largest tree in the world. We can get some idea of what these figures representwhen we know that it takes five men tiiree weeks to. 128 THE BIG TREES 129 cut one down, and that the cost of felling one of thesemonsters is five hundred dollars. A stump of one of these trees is so large that danceshave been held on it, and on one very large one a ball-room has been built for this special purpose. As one Californian has said, The redwood forestsare apparently imperishable, except through the ax, asthe trees are rarely injured by fire. The redwood isthe only lumber that can take the place of the whitepine, answer as a satisfactory substitute for mahoganyand black walnut, displace oak for railroad ties, cypressand cedar for shingles, and surpass all other woods fordurability when in contact with the earth or whenexposed to moisture.
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