A GIANT FIR-TREE.
The latest find in Snohomish County t Washington, eclipses all previous records of big trees discovered in the Washington and Oregon forests. The giant tree is a yellow fir. It must be very old, for there are many tree stumps near by that have from one to five hundred rings, each said to represent a year's growth. These neighbouring trees are from thrqe to six feet in diameter. The^ newlyfound monarch of the north-western forest is sixty-three feet irTcircumference at the butt and one hundred and twentyeight feet tothe'first limb, which measures one hundred and nine inches in circumference. The estimated height of this fir tree is three hundred feet. A log can be sewn from it that will be two hundred and fifty feet long by fifteen feet at the butt and six by six feet at the small end. If this log can be put into salt water in one piece it will be the largest stick ever logged in the State, and probably in the world.
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 3 April 1914, Page 3
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172A GIANT FIR-TREE. Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 3 April 1914, Page 3
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