Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1907 — Monarch Pine Now In Lumber. [ARTICLE]

Monarch Pine Now In Lumber.

What is said to be the tallest c<?rk pine that has been converted into lumber for twenty five years was recently in Chippewa county, northern Michigan. The lumber it produced aggregated 4,116 feet. Aftdr this fine monarch had been leveled it cut foiif logs fourteen feOjt long and t*o feet long. If the trunk had been left uncut there would have been one log 124 feet long. The' bottoiri * cut of the tree measured' fpttyfbtir hi dihmeter, and the but from the top was twelve infixes thick.!’ Itj was nearly btie hundred feet from the roots of the tree to the first limb, it was clear of crotches or large limbs, nearly the whole it being clear lumber. ' it sold for ISO a thousand feet. The big log was cut in the Merchant timber camp near Strongville.