Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — A Glant Oak Cut in Indiana. [ARTICLE]

A Glant Oak Cut in Indiana.

An oak tree, six feet in diameter at the butt and fifty-two feet to the first

limb, was felled near Coatleton, lud., flu other day. Above the first limbs wa» made a twelve-foot log. It produced 0,000 feet of lumber, and, reckoned by its rings, is 500 years old. It is thought to be the finest specimen of its kind a the country and will likely be taken to the World’s Fair.—[St. Louis Repobbcu