Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1893 — "WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE." [ARTICLE]

"WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE."

An oak tree was felled on the. farm of John Johnson, near Castleton, which, by the circles or rings from the heart outward, lacked but five years of being five hundred years old. It measured fifty-five Inches in diameter at the stump; length of trunk, clear of limbs, was fifty-two feet measuring at the top forty-eisht Inchon. This is equivalent to S.MMfeetof lumber. There was a twelvo-foot log above the limbs. It Is not believed any better timber was ever grown in any State. Secretary Noble has askod that a military force be sent to prevent the threat" eued invasion of the Cherokee strip.