Grove of Giant Redwoods to be Franklin K. Lane Memorial

To honor the memory of Franklin K. Lane, former Secretary of the Interior, who was the first President of the Save the Redwoods League, a magnificent redwood tract at Kettintelbe, Humboldt County, will be dedicated as the Franklin K. Lane Mernorial Grove on Sunday, August 24th, at 2 p.m, Simple and appropriate outdoor ceremonies unden the ancient trees will mark the dedication of the grove. Governor Friend W. Richardson has been invited to attend, as has also Secretary ol Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the Franklin K. Lane Memorial Committee. who is now in California. Mrs. F.ranklin K. Lane, now a resident of San Francisco, and members of her familv will be guests of honor at the ceremcinies. A bronze tablet set in a natural granite boulder dedicating the grove to the memory of Franklin K. Lane will be unveiled as a part of the exercises. Invitations have been sent out to tha 5.000 members of the Save the Redwoods League, to public officials of the state and nation, and the pubtic generally is cordially invited to attend.

The Franklin K. Lane Memorial Redr,r'ood Grove is one of the finest tracts of timber in the Redwood Belt and contains some of the largest and most symmetrical specimens of these trees,, many of them close to 2,M yearJ old. It contains practically 20O acres at the present lime and was purchased by a fund established by the friends and admirers of Franklin K. Lane, headed by E. E. Ayer of Chicago, a Councilor of the Save the Redwoods Liague. A fuither fund for the purchase of additional area and for the improvement and upkeep of this grove and the public camp ground in conjunction with it, it is expected, will be raised,

Arizona Has New Retail Yard

A new retail lrrmber yard had beeftstarted at Phoenix, Arizona, by JVIr. S. H. Gowdy and Wm. Whitney, both old lunlherrnen from Kansas City.

The yard is located near the Fair Grounds at Six Points.

O'MALLEY SELLS WILLCOX YARD TO LEWIS

The O'Malley Lumber Company, operating a string of yards through Southern Arizona, has sold their Willcox yalq-lo Mr. R. G. Lewis, rvho has been operating a yard at Willcox for some time, and who will, it is undersi6od, consolidate the two yards into one operation.

although the grove as it now stands is a complete unit. This memorial grove has. been deeded to the Staie of California to stand as a part of the Humboldt State Redwood Park.

The Franklin K. Lane Memorial Grove is located on the Redu'ood Highway at Kettintelbe (the old Indian name of the place^-for' years known as Phillipsville), Humboldt County, 228.6 miles north of Sausalito and 65'miles south of Eureka. It borders the South Fork of the Eel River.

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