Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — New Jersey Forest Being Moved. [ARTICLE]

New Jersey Forest Being Moved.

From the place where they have grown from small shoots into giant trees, C. Ledyard Blair, a New York banker, is moving a forest a distance of six miles so that the grounds surrounding bis country house near Piapack, N. J., may be beautiful. The trees have Stood for years in Somerset county, N. J., but now they are being transplanted in Morris county. One tree is removed each day and 14 horses and a truck weighing six tons are used to carry them. The roads traversed bad to be specially prepared and the several bridges to be clossed are double-planked and braced. The contractors guarantee that 95 per cent of the trees transplanted will live.