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| Measuring the big trees - Author's Personal Collection |
On January 17, 1892 a special train arrived at Big Trees Grove. The rail cars bore members of the International Press Club League and the San Francisco Press Club.
"The Big Trees were reached in a few minutes, and there the party stopped and inspected the redwood giants for thirty minutes ... Sixteen persons joined hands and were then just able to circle the giant, which stands 225 feet high, and thirty-one got inside of the burned 'General Fremont,' and then the space was not filled."
"One of the Eastern visitors had brought along a spool of silk thread and the tree was carefully measured, and the skein of silk broken off and preserved for reference the size seeming incredible ... "
The 1888 image above shows sixteen people holding hands, including John Fremont and his family. Instead of using thread, this group opted for a photograph to demonstrate the circumference of the Giant.
Source: “On Sight-Seeing Bent – Press Delegates Given a Glimpse of California,” San Francisco Examiner, January, 18, 1892.
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