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BIG TREE FOR BIG FAIR.

St. Louis Exposition Managers Will Transplant a Giant Red Oak, Roots and All.

Special to The New York Times.

ST. LOUIS, July 31.—For the Louisiana Purchase Exposition an effort is to be made for the removal of a huge tree, root and branch, by water more than 1,000 miles from the wildest section of Arkansas to Forest Park. The tree is a red oak, 100 feet high and 12 feet in diameter at the base. It stands in the forest about two miles southeast of Elgin, Ark., and one mile from tho bank of Black River.

The first thing to be accomplished is the construction of a double tramway with the tracks thirty feet apart from the tree to the river, where it will be floated and towed to St. Louis. It is estimated that this will occupy six months. The tree will be dug up by the roots instead of cut in the usual manner, and none of its branches will be trimmed, but will be put on exhibition just as it now stands in the woods.

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