Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1915 — One-Hundred-Doliar Tree. [ARTICLE]

One-Hundred-Doliar Tree.

The government has received $99.40 in payment for a single sugar pine tree that a trespasser cut in the Stanislaus National forest in California. It yielded more than enough actual lumber for a good-sized house, or for a two-foot board walk nearly two miles long. The tree scaled 18,933 board feet, and was valued at $5.25 a thousand feet. Officers of the forest service believe that although national forest timber is frequently sold at a higher rate a foot, no other tree ever felled in a national forest has been worth so much. —Youth’s Companion.