TREE 2500 YEARS OLD.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1410, 26 June 1923, Page 2

TREE 2500 YEARS OLD.

The third oldest known living thing in North America is a giant cypress tree in what is known as the Edenborn Brake, in Winnparish, according to Carleton F. Poole, of tiie Louisiana State Conservation Department. The age of the tree has been placed at 2500 years by Professor Herman Schrenk. of St. Louis, and other scientists who have examined it. According to records, it is exceeded in longevity only by the Santa Maria del Tule cypress, near Oaxaca, Mexico, 5000 to 0000 years old; the Aragon tree at Orolava Island of TenerilTe, 4000 years old; the Redwood tree. California, 4000 years old, and the Baobab tree, Senegal, 4000 years old. The Edenborn cypress was budding into life when Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar. It was a lusty young sprout when the battles of Marat ban and Thermopylae were fought, when Assyria was at the apex of world dominion, and when Rome was a village of mud roads and hovels. The tree was one of a number of its kind in a tract of pine timber purchased by William Edenborn some years ago, and when logging began he refused to permit it and three others almost as large to be felled, although the giant contains approximately 23,000 feet of lumber. It is peculiarly situated for one of its species, for while the cypress usually grows in swamps, the Edenborn specimen stands in a hollow between bills.