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10_78 Briceland as high as 500 or even 800. - Nature's scars -- an ascending Madrona trunk bore a series scars along the upper side of it. A Tan Oak tree had fallen by the wind years ago and made them -- In coming down the trunk had sheared a big limb off another Tan Oak tree. The overgrowth of wood here -- in section -- revealed how long since the catastrophe occurred -- viz 8 yrs. - Mott. - Wagner took the gold medal for the best oak-tanned leather at Chicago and Paris. I asked him if he meant to compete at St. Louis and he said jocularly that he thought he ought to give others a chance. And, said he, perhaps I better rest on my laurels! |
10_79 June 18, 1903. - Man in the woods says that it is Chris Erickson of _________ Beach, near Ferndale, who owns the big Madrona above Ettersburg. - Madrona rump often has conical woody adventitious buds in great quantity as has Tan Oak. - A Tan Oak log which is being peeled make a sound that is like nothing so much as the sound of a person who is receiving a cold plunge of water suddenly and says, O-O-o-o-o-o. This is especially the case when a rim comes off whole or half of it and peels easily. |
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