The Democratic Press

A new grove of giant trees has recently been discovered in California, about one hundred miles south of the famous grove of Yosemite, 6,000 feet above the level of the sea. Instead of being a small cluster of thirty or forty trees, like the Yosemite grove, it contains over 10,000 trees, and covers a section of country six miles square. The ages of the largest are estimated at between 1,200 and 4,000 years, while there are thousands of young ones from 100 to 1,000 years old. Excavations at the roots of these trees have revealed their buried ancestors, some of them thirty feet in diameter, and estimated to be 5,000 years old.