• A carpenter straightened Himself wearily from the planing, and the last shaving wafted to the ground.
• At the same time, figuratively and half across the undiscovered world, a cone bearing small brown seeds
• dropped to the rich soil of California's coastal plain.
• The man was Jesus of Nazareth,and one tree which grew from the cone of seeds is that though which you
• have now passed
• the redwoods are the tallest trees on the face of the earth.
• Fifty nine years ago Jim Allen was fishing on the famed waters of the Klamath River in Northern California.
• A sudden rain squall rose, and Allen sought shelter in a "goose-pen" tree...one of those forest giants which fire
• had burnt nearly hollow some time in the past, but which still lived. A sudden thought struck him as he waited
• out the shower.
• "Why not,"he mused, "a house from one of these?"
• The tree which Allen selected years later was not hollow when it was cut.
• After spending over a month going through the forest to find that was suitable and one that could be
• taken out of the woods without to much damage done to the bark, the tree was found at last on the property of
• the Georgia Pacific Lumber Co., Near Eureka, California. The tree was 14 feet in diameter at the stump cut, 267
• feet high and 1900 years old.
• This is the fourth log that was cut from the base of the tree.This log is 33 feet long, 8 feet wide and 9 feet
• 4 inches in height at the larger end. The end you just came through is cut 65 feet from the stump cut, after the
• tree was felled.
• After the log had been cut it was taken into Eureka and then the gigantic task of removing the material
• from the inside of the log.
• Working around the clock for over four months with drills,chisels, and foot adzes over 11,000 board
• feet of lumber was removed. Enough material was removed to have built a five-room home but it could not
• be saved.
• The walls were sanded and rubbed down by hand, then finished with a clear varnish to bring out the natural
• grain of the wood. The case work and cabinets are all built in of redwood material but not of what was taken
• from the log.
• The entire tree contained 74,000 board feet of lumber,enough to have built six modern bungalows.
• From the time this exhibit was started until it was completed it required the work of two men a little over one
• year.
• More than 85 natural parks, spread over 60,000 acres, have been preserved for all time by the California
• State Park system and the save The Redwoods league, open to all the world for camping, fishing and swimming
• in the many beautiful rivers and streams, for hiking and just resting. Nearly all have camping facilities, many
• with cabins and tent-houses.
• Some of these giant redwood trees measure 30 feet in diameter. The tallest known tree, last measured several
• years ago, towered 365 feet above the ground. This redwood is located at Dyerville Flat, Humboldt County,
• California, and each year at Christmas it is lighted for its full height to become the most awesome and fabulous
• Christmas tree in the history of the world. The tree section though which you just passes, grew in this same
• general area of the famous redwood Empire of Humboldt County,California.
• The oldest cut tree by actual ring count, had witnessed the passing of 3,126 years. There is no record of one
• ever having died of old age.
• The redwood is slow to decay, is fire resistant, and is distasteful to termites, making it one of the finest and yet
• economical home-building materials.
• The coastal growth belt is 35 miles wide by 450 miles long, with the Redwood Highway coursing thorough the
• length of it to make the world's ,most magnificent scenic drive.
• The tree home completed by Jim Allen is probably the oldest wooden residence in existence,outdated only by
• the stone and clay of the ancient world before Christ.
• It has lived through the time of Bethlehem, of Rome and of the Crusades; through the glories of storied Cathay,
• on and on through 20 centuries and countless generations of mankind.
• And its regal companions and descendants will go down through the ages, with or without us.

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