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Excerpt from Report on the Climatic and Agricultural Features and the Agricultural Practice and Needs of the Arid Regions of the Pacific Slope, With Notes on Arizona and New Mexico, 1882: Made Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture
In the winter of 1869 J. T. Stratton planted 43 acres of E. Globulus or blue gum, and two of E. Viminalis or red gum; seedlings of same season, 8 by 8, or to the acre. Cultivation given at first, but no irrigation. The trees are now from 80 to 100 feet high, the tallest 100 feet, and 2 feet in diameter 3 feet above the ground; some larger have been cut down. No damage has ever been done by frosts or northers. The past season 20 acres have been cleared; their yield was 600 cords of cord-wood, 130 of butts and roots. In 1876, the Central Pacific Railroad Company got 40 ties for trial, and the telegraph company bought 800 poles for trial. The wood has not proved durable for these uses.
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