3 Tas asaoee Sy APOE Coa Copyright N° COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT: vw 7 igs eer.) : 7 a yee oa ° S oe 2 Hib, , - on es - aa ie ae ie Pe he a n - a =-(% © 7 i ean’ eee see hea a i 5 7 ar | ry or A ee ea Te al Gg ea. eh : bitaee Pb aris a : au i rae wean ete Po, 7} re ) rr Sere Af jie "US Cees he ara ie ; — Me) mm og, Pos we STUDIES IN EUCALYPTUS Compiled and Edited by W. E. GRAVES 1910 > - ©3.4256952 Py OB 7 > > * a oe ” < * ser 3 se ats " Pic Sees oo Sh on A oe at Nee 1909 2 Oy i) Graves, Dec .E. I GROVE OF L. MICHEAUX >hoto by W Gaile 5 years and 8 month ’ Compton s. Age, Diameter of tree in foreground, 18 inche Height, about 85 feet. Ss. See opposite page ) ( 37 Photo by W. E. Graves, Dec. 23, 1909 This is the six-acre Grove which Mr. L. Micheaux cut during May, 1908, at 64 years of age, and sold the crop for $8,626.00 net, for cord-wood and telegraph poles. Sprout growth now 19 months old; diameter, 3 to 4 inches; height, 25 to 30 feet. “BIULOJI| B iy yu J “JO9J YOT OF O8 ayo ‘BpJoLlany, Jo {ysloH ‘SoYOUL PT ‘loqovel Sj9e1}S UO SUI MOI) ‘sp Jo 1ea4 uo] LU “SIULOOIJ910 J, a si THAXTER GROVE (Eucalyptus Globulus) Six miles from Los Angeles. Nadeau Station, Watts Car Line. Sprout Growth. Eleven years old, third crop. Height, 90 to 120 feet. Easily average 100 feet. W.E. Graves standing on log cut down. This log was measured three different times by W. E. Graves for absolute accuracy. Height, 115 feet. Diameter at base, 18 inches; diameter 30 feet up, 13 inches; diameter 60 feet up, 9 inches. Two tall trees center of photo, 17 inches diameter, breast high. Age given to Mr. Graves by Mrs. Thaxter, owner of the grove. She owns thirty acres; sells it all for cordwood at $10 per cord on the ground. Cutting costs her $2.50 per cord. 43 re Ce Ne 2 tae SEES THAXTER GROVE (E. Globulus ) Sprout Growth. Eleven years old. Height, 110 feet. Diameter of tree by W. E. Graves, 20 inches *f center tree, Sie * tree on left, i 3a Measurements taken breast high. Diameter of group of 5 in rear growing from one stump two 15 inches and three 14 inches, breast high. 45 a y, Photo Fall of 1909 EUCALYPTUS ROSTRATA (Red Gum.) Sprout growth, 7 years old. Diameter, first tree, 10 inches; two rear trees, 13 inches each; height, 80 feet. In Davis Grove, San Fernando Valley, 10 miles out of Los Angeles. AT Measurements by W. E. Graves, Dec. 22, 1909 Twelve-year-old Eucalyptus growing on property of Eucalyptus Timber Corporation at Pixley, Cal. Diameter at base, 26 inches; breast high, 23 inches. Photo by Pierce, photographer, Los Angeles (W. E. Graves in picture.) « ’ EUCALYPTUS GLOLUBUS (Blue Gum. ) “Lucky” Baldwin’s Ranch, 18 miles east of Los Angeles. Seedling growth, 15 years old. Diameter 22 inches; height, 110 feet. Trees in this row range from 18 to 25 inches in diameter. Tree contains 1500 feet of lumber and is worth $37.50 on the stump. 51 ey Wy : 7 re | e. i 4 Photo, 1909 EUCALYPTUS TERETICORNIS. Age 20 years. Diameter, 3 feet; height, 125 feet. Murietta, Cal., 75 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Photo by Pierce. Measurements by W. E, Graves, Dec. 19, 1909 “ROMONA ACRES’’——Los Angeles Eucalyptus Globulus planted by W. O. Stevens for wind breaks. About 12 years old. Height, 75 to 90 feet; diameter, from 7 to 17 inches. Tree No. 1, 7 inches diameter; No. 7, 14 inches diameter; No. 20, 17 inches diameter. Fair growth only; about 90 feet to water. 79) The Eucalyptus forest, with its straight trunks, fawn colored and silver gray, bearing pendant strips of brown bark and crowned with shining foliage, is as beautiful as the northern birches and on a grander scale. Orange trees on the left. “Old Baldy” in the background. Near Los Angeles. pec inate am Photo by Pierce. Information by Mrs. Loyd, an old resident of Wesley Ave. Eucalyptus Globulus, formerly growing on corner of Wesley Ave. and 36th St., Los Angeles, Cal. Age when destroyed, 20 years; height, about 125 feet; diameter, about 24 feet. 59 A Twenty - five-year-old Eucalyptus, three miles out of Pixley. Diameter, 4 feet. EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS. This row of trees 23 years old. Average diameter, about 36 inches; height, 125 to 150 feet. Will cut from 1500 to 2000 feet of lumber to each tree. Value on the stump, $25.00 per 1000 feet. Mills are pay- ing this price. These trees are growing on Melrose Ave., South Hollywood, Cal., just out of Los Angeles. ONE OF THE NUMEROUS EVIDENCES OF ‘“Why you owe it to your family to buy Eucalyptus ”’ On the afternoon of December 25, 1909, I called at the residence of Hon. Elwood Cooper, twelve miles north of Santa Barbara, Cai., for the purpose of verifying the numerous statements made in Government Bulletin No. 35, and also the Forestry Society Bulletins regarding the wonderful growth of Eucalyptus on Mr. Cooper’s ranch. Notwithstand- ing it was Christmas day, Mr. Cooper very cheerfully consented to ‘‘show me around’’ and give me any desired information. Mr. Cooper is very proud of his trees and justly so. We were admiring the cluster of 30-year old Globulus (seedling growth, see accompanying cut), lifting their lofty heads 160 feet in the air, occupying ground space not to exceed 6x30 feet, if that, when I turned to Mr. Cooper with that proverbial American query, ‘What will they bring?’ I quote his reply herewith: “Well, there are sixteen treesin that clump. The third one on the right is 2} feet in diameter and measures over 2000 feet of lumber. It is safe to say the trees will average fully 1000 feet each. This would make 16,000 feet of lumber. I can sell the lumber any day, F. O. B. ears here, cut and cured, at $100 per thousand feet, which would make the trees bring $1600.” “That is, of course, taking both the grower’s and millman’s profit, Mr. Cooper, would you not sell those trees just as they stand on the stump for say $1000 cash?” “No, I would not, for I have quite a large acreage of Eucalyptus on my ranch, and I intend putting ina sawmill next year, and it will not cost me anything like $500 to cut and cure 16,000 feet of lumber.”’ Should Mr. Cooper sell these trees at the price which we publish in our literature as that which the grower will undoubtedly obtain — viz., $25 per 1000 feet on the stump this clump of 16 trees would bring $400, or an average of $25 per tree, the buyer to do the cutting. Think what an acre of such trees planted in proper forest form would bring: 500 trees 30 years old, at $25 each, $12,500, from an original investment of only $250. It staggers the irnagination. Regarding the possible correctness of the information furnished by Mr. Cooper here and elsewhere, I wish to say that Mr. Cooper is a gen- tleman of large means and much learning. He has a library that would be a credit to some of the best college men of the day. He is a man of possibly seventy summers. Has no Eucalyptus lands whatever for sale, and the statements made by him are absolutely above ques- tion. W. E. GRAVES. Growing on ranch of Hon. Elwood Cooper, Santa Barbara, Cal. Diameter, 18 to30 inches; height, 160 feet; age, 30 years.The trees here are planted en- tirely too closetogether for good development. See opposite page. 63 Eucalyptus ‘‘Monarchs”’ RANCH OF HON. ELWOOD COOPER, SANTA BARBARA, CAL. Thirty-five years old; height 175 feet. (Height measurement taken recently by the Government Forestry Bureau. ) Diameter No. 1 on left, breast high, 3 feet No. 1 “ right, “ ‘** 19 inches No Dy oe se se ee 33 ee No. 4 ee oe oe oe Sy (Diameter measurements made by W. E. Graves, December 25, 1909. ) These ten trees will average 2000 feet of lumber each, which, at $25 per 1000, would make the trees worth $50 apiece on the stump. If cut and cured the lumber would bring at least $90 per 1000 wholesale, which would be a total of $1800 for the ten trees. The Hughes Manufacturing Company (the largest cabinet factory in Southern California, doing interior work for banks, office buildings, ete.), stated to the writer that they would be glad to enter into a con- tract to take all the Eucalyptus lumber a man could supply, properly cured, at $90 to $100 per 1000 feet, F. O. B. cars at point of production. W. E. GRAVES. 64 Growing on ranch of Hon. Elwood Cooper, Santa Barbara, Cal. Diameter, 19 to age 35 years. 36 inches; height 175 feet See opposite page. ————=__ EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS. Flowers and seed pods. Note the long tapering leaves characteristic of this species. Another characteristic feature of the Globulus is the con- tinual flaking of its bark. 67 eg # ' E b3 4 3 4 6 4 4 s 3 s ¢ 3 California Eucalyptus Sawn and Piled. Photographed by W. R. Wheaton, Dec. 15, 1909 Interior finished in Mahogany Eucalyptus New Bank at Alhambra, Cal., 10 miles from Los Angeles. Finish as exquisitely beautiful as man by The Hughes Manufacturing Co. W. E. Graves in picture. could desire. peyst[dutosoe aq [| IM S}[NSel IWS ‘suvak a AY -f1UaM UI Sjsalo snydAyTwong poyeary[no Usepoul ur ‘JOJUIVIP Ul JoaJ GaIY} 0} OM} S901], “plo SIBeA papuNyY [Blades pooMpey BIUAOJI[VD SUL S307 al ‘uotyelodiog Jequiiy, snydAjvong ey} Jo slaquieur ayy Aq paumMGO ‘Jaquin, snydAjeong uo Surjesedo ‘sajasuy sory ‘Auedurog [[TW snqid & I Bony ay} Jo que[q 73 ‘sojasuy SO'T “AIOYOIY YYMOALS puodves 0} JoWedns you Jt tenbea A[[nj patepisuoy ‘Aueduio) [A snjgdA[vony ayy Aq sninqopy snydAjzeongy wWodJ painjorjnueul se[pueH Yolg pur saasjapsurg Ke hede ‘ netnsonnnny ti i: Sane ey 75 = — ee 2 e Shay eel a | GIANT SEQUOIA. Twenty feet in diameter at top of the opening in tree. Probably a thousand years old or over. A striking example of the “‘Big Trees’’ of California. f 6061 ‘Iaquis.0q o104g BIULOJI]VD UJaYyINog UI pUNOL JveA ayy aSeI[OY pues SIEMO]T (8) Interior Southern Pacific and the Gross Building adjoining finished in Eucalyptus, imported under the name of Australian Mahogany. The Grosse Building has now been completed for three years, and the Southern Pacific much longer. I examined the wood work of both buildings, December, 1909. They are in perfect condition. Not the slightest sign of warping or checking. — W. EF. 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(o.6) (6,6) THOMAS HUGHES Ce | AD WADE vice PRES LESTER L ROBINSON seéecr GO G HUGHES Gent manaaae CROOKSMANK racas aT Die ™ oe , 4 ee : Xs Z ED 2 P ¥, % ¢ F pat SASH, DOORS & GENERAL MILL WORK, PHONES. SUNSET EXCH 27 HOM EXCHANGE 287 MAIN OFFICE & YARDS Mr. W. E. Graves, St. Louis, Mo. Dear Sir:-- Replying to your inquiry as to our experience in the use of Eucalyptus, will say that we have used it to considerable extent during the past three years for inter- ior finish, cabinet work, etc. We would use it much more extensively, were it possible to procure the lumber. We did the Grosse Building of this City in euc- alyotus imported from Australia. We have just finished the new Bank at Alhambra, in California-grown eucalyptus, (mahogany finish), and you could scarcely imagine anything more beautiful. I believe the wood is fully as strong as oak or hickory. When properly cured, it is as free from warping or checking as any hardwood we have. In fact, in view of the scarcity oak, and the many uses to which eucalyptus is adaptable, it will doubtless become the hardwood of the future. We have recently finished a Directors' table and set of chairs in eucalvotus, and it will compare most fav- orably with tne best mahogany. Very truly yours, HUGHES MN¥G. & LBR. CO. LO slr Los Angeles,California.eBecomber 22,1909 Mr. W.E.Graves, C/O Eucalyptus Timber Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri. Dear Sirse Referring to your recent visit to my eucalyptus grove and your request for a certified letter from me reviewing the information which I cheerfully gave you, or which I would be glad to tell any reputable busi- nese man interested in the gevelopment of eucalyptus, will say that I have kept careful records of the proceeds of my various cuttings as a guide to future care and salee I have a thirty acre tract of eucalyptus three miles North West of Compton, the major portion of which has been cut the third time. I have sold it practically 911 for cord wood purposes, cutting the timber at about five,six and seven years of age. Last year I cut six acres of cord wood, (sprout growth), at six end a half years of age and sold the same for #2726200 on the ground. This was Net, cost of cutting having been deducted. I left 500 choice trees for telegraph poles standing and sold them to the Los Angeles & Redondo Ry.Cc. for {£800.00 cash. They to do the cutting and hauling. This averaged me $5«60 per pole on the stumpe In addition to the foregoing I cut about 300 cords from this six acres when thinning my trees, realizing {7.00 per cord ,net. This, you will see, has brought me a revenue of $8626.00 on six acres from a six and one-half years growth, or an average of $1427.00 per ecree Eucalyptus is like everything elses Soientific treatment will bring double resultse As to the value per acre I could hardly say, es but little acreage has ever been on the market, but the following will give an idea: As explained to you I expect to go back to the old country some time soon and am disposing of my propertye I sold recently 120 acres near Santa Ana, California, for $700.00 per acre straight. It contained groves at two,three and fours years of age. I have a five acre tract adjoining my ranch heuse which is now four years and eight months old and the trees will undoubtedly average from 8 to Yinches in diameter. Theme a number of trees on the tract 12-14 and 15 inches in diameter. Adjoining this is a six acre grove, sprout growth, 61/2 years of age, end the trees will average from 9 to 12 inches in diancter. While you were here we measured quite a number 15 inches in diameter. I think my grove will make e better showing than the ma- jority as I have given it considerable care. My Compton grove contains trees from nine months to five years of age. This property is in good condition and I hold it at {200.00 per acre. I have no personal interest in any company whatsoever and am giving you this informetion purely in a spirit of good will to you and your friends,and trust that it will be of some benefit to youe Very truly yours, Xo