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Sequoia National Park

a region made public property in 1890 in order to safeguard the splendid groves of sequoia trees which are there found.

The number of groves in this park are twelve, and the number of large trees exceed 12,000, having a minimum diameter of 10 feet. The park was established by the acts of Sept. 25 and Oct. 1, 1890. The area includes 161,597 acres.

The valleys, rivers, and forested slopes in this park combine to make up a picture of great beauty. Tourists in great number visit it each year, coming by way of Visalia, on the Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé railroads, and then to Lemon Cove, going 40 miles by stage coach to the park. The trees belong to the Sequoia genus that showed themselves first in the cretaceous beds of Greenland and in the American Potomac group, as well as later in the Tertiary of Europe and America, resembling those still extant in California. They are collaterally related to the Swedenborgia of the Jurassic, which grew to great heights in earlier ages. which it is separated by the Save and SERBIA (Jugoslavia), formerly an independent kingdom of eastern Europe; bounded N. by Austria-Hungary, from