Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — A BIG CEDAR. [ARTICLE]

A BIG CEDAR.

I* Was Four Hundred Feet High and Seventy Around* G. A. Dyer, of this city, has the largest tree on exhibition'ever shown In the State says the Tacoma (Wash.) News. It is a cedar, cut near Ocosta, Wash. It took eight men twenty-four days to cut and load it on the car. The part exhibited consists of fourteen feet of the butt, together with sections of the roots. The marked features of this tree are that it was solid to the base. After it was felled it was split into sections that could be handled and the center taken out. It is now set up, so that from the outside it appears In its original state, but within it is hollow, into which entrance is made through a door. Mr. Dyer says the tree was 407 feet in height, and that it measures seventy feet in circumference. This includes the “ins and outs" of the base, while at an elevation ot thirty-three feet its diameter was fourteen feet It was sixty feet to the first limb, which is said to be seven feet In diameter. The first 300 feet was fifteen feet in diameter at the butt tapering to one foot at the top. Some one estimated the board measurement at 100,000 feet If this is correct the tree would have cut 10,000,(MX) Star A shingles, or 100 carloads. The tree will be taken east for exhibition.