Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1891 — Big Tree to Be Exhibited. [ARTICLE]

Big Tree to Be Exhibited.

It has been determined to send to the World s Fair at t hicago, as a feature of the Government’s exhibit, the largest specimen that can be obtained of the famous big trees of taliforuia. A tree thirty feet iu diameter .will be selected and cut off thirty .feet from the ground. The trunk will tnen be sawed into sections and the outside pieces only sent to Chicago. On arrival at the exhibition the pieces will be put together, so that the outside p rtion will show just as it did in the forest. It is proposed to place it in the center of the rotunda of Government Building. The inteiiorof the tree wiil be decorated with cones, leaves and other attachments of the tree, divided into rooms and the whole affair illuminated with electric lights.