Show I I I I OPEN E FORUM I I Communications from the peo pea people lle II arc Invited Letters for this department will not receive at attention attention unless signed with tile the name amine of the writer The signa signature tare ture will not he be used unless re reo requested requested quested qU sled Correspondents are fire re requested requested I quested to Lo limit communications to words If possible I While looking over OC the city I 1 have huc noticed tho the large number of oC box hox elder eldor trees treos growing on every street stroet and In i every orr lot It no clatter which way war I turned I noticed the barlt barl broken brokon In Inmany inmany many places and anal the bees hels taking the from the tho sap which was wa oozing t from the AB As I 1 watched them my mind d was carried back to 10 my mr boyhood boy bor boyhood borI I hood days In tho the early eighties when I i Kansas and anti Nebraska were classed as us usa asa J Ja a new county country count and was being heing heln settled i iby ih by h Eastern East people who came west to get gel homes because b nf of the homestead law which t th them m lie tho land laud free freo I We wore I all people leople with nothing to todo todo I do but buL build out our sod houses break and cultivate at the tho land and aad lUll I raise miRe tho the grains and anI vegetables necessary to i feed ourselves and find animals of or which we nr w hail had very er few There were no railroads near us no nu manufacturing of o any kind klad and Ind as ns a result we had lad no noway noway I way 11 of or earning a dollar and conse consequently con consequently e hind had no money moue The result rosult of oC having go JO ao money looney was WIS that we were deprived of this the luxuries of life and we wc contrived every crO way possible po to 10 j I get some of or thorn and anI one of them I Iwas was maple syrup which everybody I likes liken with the corn cakes of which we wc had hall a plenty Il Wo Wu Te procured it In the l I following manner I Our neighbor we wc an au called cancu I I Don DOll homesteaded a piece of or land through which a l creek crock flowed and andalon j along alon the tho creek a n considerable amount I of timber Umber grow Many of the trees were of the Uie variety arlet referred to In ht the tho I I beginning of o this and In sonic some someway way WI Mr Don discovered that the tho sap sall which flowed freely from front hem Iltem I when whenever ever eor they thoy tho were cut or 01 o bruised brul etl was sweet and sand hp decided to experiment with the liquid with the result that I ho he h got a very er g II i quality of syrup with u t of or capora evaporation evaporation tion Lion Ho made mado It ft n 1 paying proposition Mr Ir Don DOll had bad plenty of syrup rup In Its season and he h did not forget foret to 10 share with hits his neighbors who had no DO trees from from which to 10 draw Now these trees in the thc city have cost their owners a Il great Ical amount of oC money mone and labor and seem of very cr little value aud and the thc question Is Ish Why h doop doe docq not sumo mine quo Que know about these trees at as a l syrup producer and take hold of or the tho proposition Ion and supply sup supply ply ph the tho city cil wRIt with a u splendid of syrup which would he be taken for maple syrup grup In cases out of ten tell and save the people the tho expense of oC freighting KO so 1 much of the product over the Rocky Rock Mountains making It so cheap that every ccrone one could cold afford to lo have syrup Signed Sl ned JAS W EY J j I I Ogden March 12 1 I |