Are you sure?
This bookmark will be removed from all folders and any saved notes will be permanently removed.
Buying the Big Trees
New York Sun
Representative De Vries of California, has introduced a bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to buy the "mammoth tree grove" and "South Park Grove of Big Trees" in Calaveras County, Cal., which are now owned by private persons. The idea is to make national parks of them. By far the largest of these big tree groves is in Mariposa County, and it was a part of the public domain when it was granted to California by Act of Congress, to be held for all time as a place of public resort.
If the two groves which the California congressman wishes to turn into national parks do not contain as many trees as some of the others, they have the compensating advantage of showing the biggest trees of them all, and they were also the first to be discovered. The first the world heard of these giants of vegetation was in 1852, when a white hunter named Dowd reached the larger of the Calaveras groves and found a cluster of ninety-two of these great trees covering a space of fifty acres. When he returned to civilization and told his story, he was credited with being an uncommonly talented liar.

May 24, 1900 issue
View Issue-
The Lectures
with contributions from C. H. E. Boardman, Judge Wolcott , L. F. Sutton, George C. Heberling, James D. Sherwood, W. S. Perkins
-
Mr. Howe Speaks
Charles M. Howe
-
MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
-
Appendicitis and Imagination
Editor
-
Among the Churches
with contributions from E. D. W., Lida S. Stone
-
Christian Science Again
Alfred Farlow
-
My Prayer
John G. Whittier
-
A Financial Demonstration
BY E. K.
-
Science and Health
BY T. H.
-
Letter to Mrs. Eddy
Lewis B. Coates
-
To Mother
BY W. F. C.
-
Testimony of a Commercial Traveller
W. H. H.
-
Found Health and Happiness
Lucy A. Stratton
-
Several Cases of Healing
M. F. Doak
-
A Speedy Recovery
C. H. Barnes
-
A Little Girl's Testimony
Hazel M. Wood
-
Religious Items
with contributions from T. L. Cuyler, Channing