Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1916 — TREES OLDER THAN PYRAMIDS [ARTICLE]

TREES OLDER THAN PYRAMIDS

Age of Some of the Giants in California Estimated at More Than 8,000 Years.

San Francisco. —One of the wonders of the ancient world, and probably the greatest of them, is the pyramids of Egypt. And yet some of the giant sequoias of California that are now thrifty trees had bark on them a foot thick when Cheops began building the great pyramid that bears his name. Beneath the shadow of the pyramids Napoleon said to his troops: “Forty centuries look down upon you.” There are trees in the grove estimated by scientists, among them John Muir, the eminent naturalist, to be eight thousand and even ten thousand years old. The oldest living things in the world are these giant trees.