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Title: Big trees of California / Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Company. Imprint: San Francisco, Calif. : The Company, c1914. Description: 32 p. :ill., map ; 26 cm. Call numbers: CSL State Lib q 917.94 S7 California Microfilmed by University of California Library Photographic Service, Berkeley, CA Filmed from hard copy borrowed from California State Library FILMED AND PROCESSED BY LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHIC lI SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF | CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 94720 DATE: 3/00 REDUCTION RATIO: 9 PM-1 3'%"x4" PHOTOGRAPHIC MICROCOPY TARGET NBS 1010a ANSI/ISO #2 EQUIVALENT Il 10 =e s 1132 12 goo I kee me all = 0 10 | “ mp a ——— ———— — AI —— ORBEA ro— SHARIA MCRAE SERS CR msm. EE PEERS. ASAE RTO FERC ARCS 1.25 BARBIERI ATTIRED AREA TARRANRINAED AEP RRN BIA REAN i, fe a a The“Grizzly Giant.” Mariposa Grove, near Yosemite Na- tional Park, has a girth of 91 feet at the level of the ground. It differs from most Sequoias in the size of its branches, the first, 125 feet up, being twenty feet around. BIG TREES OF CALIFORNIA A living thing . Produced too slowly ever to decay, Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. William Wordsworth PUBLISHED BY THE PASSENGER DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA A Word About the Giants “ RE JHE BIG TREES, as they are popularly called, are found only 1 nn Q California. Their scientific name 1s Sequoia 1 in honor of Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian, who designed an alphabet for his tribe. There are two varieties, the Sequoia sempervirens or redwood, which grows in extensive forests on the ocean side of the Coast Range, and the Sequoia gigantea, the real Big Tree, which 1s found only on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, usually at an elevation of from 4500 to 7500 feet. Both trees are evergreens, and both bear small cones about two inches long, con~ taining little flat seeds, not unlike a parsnip seed. But the first named reproduces itself from the stump, while the other 1s dependent upon its seeds and grows only where these can find lodgment 1 in the naked soil. The sempervirens or redwood of commerce grows in almost pure forests, while the gigantea stands in clusters or groups in fellowship with other conifers. It forms groves rather than forests, what is called the “Giant Forest” being only a closer succession of groves. The redwood attains a height of 275 feet and a diameter of twenty-two feet, the most accessible grove being near Santa Cruz, about seventy miles south of San Francisco. The Big Tree (gigantea) 1s the head of the family in age and size. There are specimens which tower nearly 400 feet to the sky, and one is said to slightly exceed this, while large numbers of these giants measure from seventy to ninety feet around. The largest found was thirty-five feet eight inches in diameter inside the bark. These trees when fully grown are usually proportionate and symmetrical in girth and height. The bark 1s occasionally very thick and is a bright cinnamon color, soft and fibrous, while the beauty of the tree is enhanced by the flutings which traverse the trunk from base to apex. The root system is too slight to explain the great size which the tree attains and the foliage too thin and inconspicuous to do respiratory duty. It is thought that the bark serves this purpose as well as the leaves, and that the bland and regular climate gives the tree at once long life and great girth. Estimates of the age of the Big Trees vary from the beginning of the Christian era to a period antedating that epoch by 4000 years. The secret of their age has not yet been discovered, but the one great undisputed fact remains: that these trees in all their majesty stand here today the oldest living things in all the world. These 1deal trees, “Nature's Forest Masterpiece,” are thought by J ohn Muir to have been preserved in the places where they are now found, by the topography of the mountains. Ihe great glacial rivers swept past them and left them to our wonder and admiration. They are descendants of trees once existing in great forests widely dispersed over the world, but which perished during the Glacial Age everywhere save in the California mountains. The Calaveras Grove was found by a hunter in 1852; the Mariposa Grove from three to five years later. No one who can spare the few days necessary to see one of these groves should miss the opportunity. In no other region can they be found. They are distinctly Californian. 10)7/ 7) F77 AD gent 94 The Way To See the Big Trees Contrary to the usual idea, the Big Trees of California are easily accessible, and in every case the journey itself well repays the traveler for his time. The Santa Cruz Grove 18 only a two-hour-and-a-half ride from San Francisco, through a beautiful spur of the Coast Range covered with pine trees. It 1s six miles from Santa Cruz, seventy= three from San Francisco. Tickets between Los Angeles and San Francisco are good for passage via the Big Trees, without extra charge. The Big Basin, now known as the California State Redwood Park, a grove of 3800 acres, 1s seven miles from Boulder Creck station and sixteen miles from Santa Cruz—a delightful drive. It was purchased by the State in 1902, to be reserved as a public park. In it are found some of the finest redwoods. The grove in Calaveras County is reached by Sierra Railway from Oakdale to Angels, thence by stage. The train leaves San Francisco in the morning, and pas- sengers connect at Angels, same evening, with stage for Murphy's, remaining overnight. There 1s a good hotel at Murphy's called Mitchler's. The next morning's drive of fifteen miles reaches the Trees. On the verge of the grove, stands the excellent Calaveras Big Tree Grove Hotel. Six miles south is the South Park Grove, containing over 1380 trees. One of the principal features of the trip to the Yosemite National Park is the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees. Commencing May 1st, until September 1st, daily through Pullman sleeping car service is established between San Francisco and the Yosemite, arriving at El Portal, the Gateway of Yosemite, at 7:00 a. m. Stage coaches leave El Portal after break- fast, reaching the Sentinel Hotel at 11:30 a. m. A daily train for Yosemite Valley leaves San Francisco in the morning, reaching El Portal in the evening, after a delightful ride along the Merced River, the night being spent at Hotel Del Portal instead of in the sleeper. There 1s sleeping car service from Los Angeles every evening, connecting at Merced with the Yosemite Valley R. R. following day for the Park. Stage coaches leave Sentinel Hotel daily after lunch for the Mariposa Grove, ar- riving at the excellent Wawona Hotel in time for dinner. The Trees are visited early the following morning, passengers returning to Wawona for lunch and arriving at the Sentinel Hotel or El Portal the evening of the same day if desired. It 1s advisable to remain over and take a full day for the Trees, which will involve no extra charge for stage service. The General Grant National Park is reached via the Southern Pacific to Sanger, thence by auto~-stage service. At the southern entrance to the park lies Sequoia Lake where there are excellent camping grounds. The California Grove 1s reached by rail (Southern Pacific San J oaquin Valley line) to Visalia, thence electric line to Lemon Cove where arrangements can be made for horses or stage beyond. The time from Lemon Cove 1s six hours. A camp 1s maintained at Juanita Meadows. There is good fishing in the Kaweah River. This grove lies in the saddle between Grant National Park and the Giant Forest and 1s a discovery of recent years. From July to mid- September the air of this whole big tree belt 1s perfect. Giant Forest—same service as above to Lemon Cove, where similar arrangements can be made for the trip to Sierra Camp, Walter Kenney, proprietor. Season July to September. 167898 5 This 1s an example of the group habit of these wonderful trees. They cluster about the graves of their ancestors. Ch a EA aan cate EL] The groves are usu~ ally composed of groups, and all grow In a delightful air along the middle heights of the Sierra. The old “Grizzly Giart” represents a solitary survivor of his immediate kin, or grew apart in the solitude of his own originality.” John Muir thinks this Sequoia 1s a ma~ ture tree, verging to old age. 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Photographed by Charles Weidner, San Francisco These are the lusty “Tw a S of Calaveras in Grove, just over 300 feet high and about 3000 years old. EE aE . Th The tree has two kinds of leaves, those on young trees and lower branches, and those on limbs that have borne flowers. ARC ML son Es Photographed by Charles Weidner, San Francisco In the hollow of this tree in the Calaveras Grove a hunter and guide lived for nearly three years. It was his “roof tree.” Photographed by Charles Weidner, San Francisco It is a one-room cabin; 18 sixteen by twenty-one feet and wassometimes shared with his horses. The “simple life,” and no rent to pay! J | | | The treeand theauto! It is a far cry from the birth of the tree to the motor car. A gap of probably fifty centuries. 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SI ES The Santa Cruz redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are cousins of the Big Trees of the High Sierra. MMi. pnt gf gat ot va 0] Almost as great in height and girth, they produce the redwood of commerce—lum- ber both useful and ornamental. Information about fares, tickets, sleeping car reservations, train service, etc., will be gladly furnished upon application to any of the following representatives of the Southern Pacific Passenger Department : Chas. S. Fee, Passenger Traffic Manager....... ....San Francisco, California Jas. Horsburgh, Jr.,, General Passenger Agent. cesses eases...San Francisco, California F. E. Batturs, General Passenger Agent.. .....Los Angeles, California John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent. . . Portland, Oregon H. R. Judah, Assistant General Passenger Agent. . ...San Francisco, California E. E. Wade, Assistant General Passenger Agent... San Francisco, California F. C. Lathrop, Assistant General Passenger Agent. . San Francisco, California E. W. 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