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Proud ol their "cqtch," Iogtgyers ol Weyerhaeuser Timber Compcny's operctions necr Longview, Wcrsh., show off the huge butt log. It is 16 leet long cnd 124 incheg in diqmeter at the larger end; sccrled 10,670 bocrd leet; weight estimcted 80,000 pounds. .[,n entire rqilroad cor will be required to hcul it out.
' Eleven fine logs. Enough lumber to stock a small retail yard. And at that more than 6O feet of tree up there beyond the 196 feet wasn't merchantable. But for 196 feet the Big One was practically sound despite itS 675 years of age. The loggers had come in time to save this tree and America had benefited thereby. Soon it would be converted into lumber to build countless structures for u'ar and peace. It was a better, kindlier, a more realistic fate than that of the fallen giants around it-giants that had grolvn for hundreds of years only to die and disappear in the forest-unseen, unused, unsung.