 Three thousand fence posts, sufficient to support a wire fence around 8,000 or 9,000 acres, have been made from one of these giants, and that was only the first step toward using its huge carcass. Six hundred and fifty thousand shingles, enough to cover...  Pamphlets on Dendrology - Page 851907Full view - About this book
 | United States. National Park Service - Birds - 1912 - 914 pages
...huge carcass. Six hundred and fifty thousand shingles, enough to cover the roofs of seventy or eighty houses, formed the second item of its product. Finally...cords of firewood which no one could use because of the prohibitive expense of hauling the wood out of the mountains. The upper third of the trunk and... | |
 | California. State Board of Forestry - Forests and forestry - 1912 - 698 pages
...huge carcass. Six hundred and fifty thousand shingles, euough to cover the roofs of seventy or eighty houses, formed the second item of its product. Finally...cords of firewood which no one could use because of the prohibitive expense of hauling the wood out of the mountains. The upper third of the trunk and... | |
 | Ellsworth Huntington - Arid regions - 1914 - 390 pages
...second item of its product consisted of 650,000 shingles, enough to cover the roofs of 70 to 80 houses. Finally, there still remained hundreds of cords of firewood which no one could use because of the prohibitive expense of hauling the wood out of the mountains. The upper third of the trunk and... | |
 | California - 1916 - 698 pages
...huge carcass. Six hundred and fifty thousand shingles, enough to cover the roofs of seventy or eighty houses, formed the second item of its product. Finally there still remained hundreds On their way to the big trees. ated only for the protection of the General Grant tree, a monster sequoia... | |
 | California. State Board of Forestry - Forests and forestry - 1919 - 132 pages
...huge carcass. Six hundred and fifty thousand shingles, enough to cover the roofs of seventy or eighty houses, formed the second item of its product. Finally...cords of firewood which no one could use because of the prohibitive expense of hauling the wood out of the mountains. The upper third of the trunk and... | |
 | American literature - 1912 - 1222 pages
...huge carcass. Six hundred and fifty thousand shingles, enough to cover the roofs of seventy or eighty houses, formed the second item of its product. Finally...cords of firewood which no one could use because of the prohibitive expense of hauling the wood out of the mountains. The upper third of the trunk and... | |
 | Literature - 1912 - 1092 pages
...huge carcass. Six hundred and fifty thousand shingles, enough to cover the roofs of seventy or eighty houses, formed the second item of its product. Finally...still remained hundreds of cords of firewood which iu> one could use because of the prohibitive expense of hauling the wood out of the mountains. The... | |
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