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Time Honored
,T HE SUGAR PINE pictured in the cut to I the left ctands on a ridge direcdy above the Madera Mill, where, for several decades, it has calmly viewed one of California'c pioneer lumbering operations.
This noble Sugar Pine, which ic over gix feet in diameter and more than two hundred feet high, antedates the discovery of America; the invention of printing by movable type; the burning at the stake of Joan d'Arc; the writing of Villiam Shakespeare's drama; and the use of 6rearms.
ft has been much photographed, and an engraving of it was long ago adopted as the Madera trade-mark, which is recognized the world over as syrnbolic of all that ic best in Service and Quality. As time honored as this tree is the dependability of Madera Sugar Pine.