"D.*n-Redwood" Forest Found In China

The San Frarrcisco Chronicle has just published a series of first-hand reports on the discovery of a forest of "darvnredwood" trees, in the hitherto unexplored fastnesses of China. The reports, with pictures, come from Dr. Milton Silverman, scientific writer for that paper, who is in China with a rvorld-famous botanist and scientist. Dr. Raloh Chaney, of the University of California.

Buried in the rocks of various parts of the earth, scientists for the past l-rundred years have been unearthing 'fossil remains of both animal and tree life that existed at least one hundred million years and more ago; the dinosaur age. Certain of these fossil tree remains have been classified, and are rvell knorvn to science. They are called the "darvn-redrvoods," being a race of redwood trees that existed r,vhen the tvorld \\ras young, but rvhich were sllpposecl to be extinct at least tlventy million years.

Trn'o years ago on a scientific expedition to Cl-rina, Dr. Chaney found and inspected three trees on the far reaches of the Yangtze Kiang, that he found, to his consternation, to be actual "darvn-redlvoods." Reports had it that far inland there u'ere forests of these supposedly longlost trees. So, r.vhen l-re organized an expedition recently to search and investigate, Dr. Silverman rvas sent along by his paper, to cover the story. And what a story it turned out to be ! Various Chinese scientists went with them. They found a lost valley about a hundred miles inland from r,vhere Dr. Chaney had seen the first three redr.r,oods tr,vo years ago, a valley that looked like it was still in the prehistoric age. And here they found, investigated, photograpl-red, and sampled these great redr,voods of the dinosaur age.

The individual trees are not very old, five to six hundred years, and 80 to 10O feet high; but they represent a race of trees thought to have been extinct countless years. In a hundred mile overland trip, these scientists rvent back one hundred million years historically.

The San Francisco Chronicle made a grand story of the matter, a staff artist producing drawings of how the ancient "dawn-redtvoods" must have looked, rvith dinosaurs all about on the ground, and the great n.inged pterodact1'ls flying overhead.

The American party with Dr. Chaney and Dr. Silr-errnan made the trip by air from San Francisco to the interior of China, then by boat up the Yangtze, and on foot over treacherous mile-high mountains into the great valley of the "dawn-redrvoods."

Until they made their recent discovery, science believed that all the living things of that age, both animal and \-egetable, had passed into the unknown countless millions of years back, and existed today only in scattered fossil remains. So the dinosaur age of trees is norv knolvn to still exist in the shape of several hundred "darvn-red\Yoods."

H. H. Bcrg Returns From Philippine Islcrnds Visit

Henry H. Barg, of Barg Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned recently from spending six weeks in the Philippine Islands, where he visited the mills and woods operations of the Valderrama Lumber Manufacturers Co., Inc., of Bacolod, in the island of Negros in the Central Philippines.

Barg Lumber Company has represented this manu{acturing concern since 1934. Tl-re company has four mills rvith a total daily cut of 70,000 board feet of Red Lauan, White Lauan, and Apitong. Two shipments are on the rvater for Barg Lumber Company, the first one due the third week in April on M/S Bougainville.

NIr. Barg also spent a r,veek in South China, 'rvhere he r.isited Hong Kong. Canton, Srvaton', and Macao.

Sqcrcmento Hoo-Hoo Club

Adolfo Dominguez, Mexican Consul, was the speaker at the dinner meeting of the Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club, held in Sacramento, on March 17. The subject of the talk rvas "Mexico Yesterday and Today." President John McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis, presided.

Refreshment host for the evening rvas California tsuilders Supply Co., r.vitli Art Williamson in charge.