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Show Hundreds Utah Citizens Interesting Themselves In Selecting State Tree against a background of evergreen. The maple family Is bigger than any American family, for It has about seventy members In the world, but sugar maple la by far the most valuable. valu-able. It Is widely distributed- through eastern North America, from Newfoundland New-foundland to Manitoba, and south to Florida and Texaa. SUGAR MAPLES. . The finest and most abundant growth of the sugar maple is found In the New England 'states. New York, northern and western Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and westward through the region re-gion of the Great Lakes to Minnesota. In the southern Appalachians It grows well where climatic conditions are similar to those farther north. Maple appears in fifty of the fifty-five fifty-five industries Into which the uses of wood in the United States are generally gen-erally divided. No other wood haa a record of so nearly approaching unl-veraal unl-veraal use. Mapls leads all other woods of the ITnltrd States In the Industry In-dustry which produces boot and shoe findings. Douglas fir is a true Westerner. It Is widely traveled, adapts Itself easily to varying situations, thrives under favorable condltiona. and la brave and persevering In the face of adverse circumstances. The fir grows throughout through-out the Pacific coast region and the Rocky mountains from British Columbia Colum-bia to northwestern Texaa, Mexico and the mountaina of California. No other important American timber tree is more widely distributed or grows under a greater range of climatic mand of the Continental army. William Wil-liam Penn made bis solemn compact with the Indians In the shade of a great elm. Before the days of the American Revolution American elms were selected for planting as symbols of liberty. The most famoua Liberty trees wars In Boston, Providence. Newport and New York. The American elm Is a tree that many say deserves first place. It is even more beautiful in winter than summer.' When the elm grows all Its life in the open it has a broad, rounded round-ed top, occasionally ahaped like that of an oak, but with more gracefully extended limbs. . The American elm is not only picturesque, pic-turesque, but Is also a large and useful use-ful lumber tree. In the forest It holds Its head aloft on a clean, atraight trunk. Its medium sized flattened top Is composed of many heavy twisted twist-ed branches It Is found growing native na-tive from Newfoundland across Canada Can-ada to the Rocky mountains and aouttt to Florida and Texaa FLOWERS EARLY Flowers of the white elm appear In March or April before the leaves, and are among the first heralds of the coming spring. The wood is heavy, hard and strong-. Oliver Wendell Holmes graphically . describes this quality of elm wood in "The Wonderful Wonder-ful One-Hosa Shay." When the Pilgrims landed, the pine waa the only green thing to greet them, and it became their emblem on the historic "pine tree shilling" and other coinage. The forests retreated HUNDREDS of Utahns are Inter-eating Inter-eating themselves in the campaign cam-paign for the' "election" of a national tree for the United States, typical of America and her Institutions, which has been launched by the American Forestry association at Washington, D. C. Among those leading the movement In Utah la Mrs. Margaret R. Palmer of Farmlngton. According to Information received by Mrs. palmer, thousands of votes have been cast in other states, hickory, hick-ory, walnut, elm, white oak, maple, birch, fir, white pine and cedar receiving re-ceiving the highest number of votes. The voting is being done through schools and clubs. Any kind of written writ-ten ballot may be sent direct to the headquarters of the American Forestry For-estry association In Washington, D. CV and It will be counted there. ASKS SCHOOL AID. Mrs. Palmer has announced tnat she will take up the matter of "electing" "elect-ing" a national tree with educational authorities of Utah In an effort to enlist the assistance of the 'school oaks, and many of the latter have been nominated for a place In the American Forestry association's hall of fame. Our high regard for the oaks does not depend alone on sentiment, since the value of the wood, bark and acorns ranks these trees commercially aa our moat Important hardwood. In the "Faerie Queen," Spencer speaks of "The builder oak, sole king of forests for-ests all," in referring to the use of oak in the enduring structures of past ages. FAVOR CEDAR. Many call the Western red cedar "the world's overcoat wood," because Its wood has extraordinary ability to resist decay. It is widely known in the West as "canoe cedar," because the Indiana of the Pacific roast used it In making Immense canoes. War canoes, made with crude Implements from a single cedar log. were often alxty feet or more In length, eight feet across at the widest point, and capable of carrying a load upward of thlrtv tona oeiure me axe ana Maine aim is called the Pine Tree state. History of the white pine until 1S90 is practically the hletory of the lumber lum-ber Industry In America up to that time. The first house built In America, Ameri-ca, of which there Is authentic record, waa constructed of white pine. In 1890 white pine lumber formed nearly one-third of the yearly output of lumber; lum-ber; ten years later more than one-fifth one-fifth of the lumber used in the United Unit-ed States was still white pine. White pine is native from Newfoundland New-foundland and the northern shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to southern Manitoba. conditions. FIR POPULAR. Lumbermen and foresters knnw this tree under lis accepted , name of Douglas fir, but It is also well known as red fir. yellow pine, Oregon pine and Douglaa spruce. Except the giant redwood, no other tree of our continent attains larger size. The tallest Douglas fir on record rec-ord has a height of 180 feet. Trees fifteen feet in diameter have been found, and single trees have been cut that scaled 00.000 feet, board measure. In the moist climate of British Columbia, Co-lumbia, Washington, and Oregon, it commonly grows from four to aix feet In diameter and 180 to 2S0 feet In height ! American walnut (or black walnut, as It Is often called! ranges from Massachusetts and South Ontario west through the southern half of the Lake states to middle Nebraska, to central Texas and northern Florida, The walnut Is being fast depleted. The family, name for walnut Is derived de-rived from "Jovis Glana," or nut of Jupiter. Thla species is spread over Europe and haa been planted in California. . ... THE L'OBLE ELM. Beneath a noble elm. at Cambridge, Mass Uencrai Washington look, com- cniiaren or the state. As the tree Is to be typical of America and of American Institutions, a study of the most common trees of America has- been made and the following fol-lowing descriptions prepared by the American Forestry association: Hickory suggests strength and elasticity, the phrase, "lough as hickory." hick-ory." having originated from that quality of the tree. Oen. Andrew Jackson was endearingly called "Old Hickory" by hia soldiers, because of his tough, unyielding disposition. This tree grows largely in the Southern states. In the spring gorgeous blossoms blos-soms appear on the tree. It casts a dense shade In the summertime and when nature colora the autumn land-i scape the yellow of the hickory Is conspicuous. . . MANY OAKS. Nearly 100 species of oak are known In the northern hemisphere; about fifty-five are native of North America, Ameri-ca, and more than half of them are commercially important. The oak possesses a sentimental charm for mankind, perhaps because in days of old, it was closely associated associ-ated with worship of the gods, instinctively in-stinctively we venerate Its character aa symbolic of strength, permanence and independence. In Europe and America are xoany historically famous Western red cedar Is the "family tree" of the Slwaah Indiana, for from it they have carved most of their massive totem poles, which sometimes exceed In sise the great columns of European cathedrals. These weird emblems, fantastic family crests, so to speak, are sometimes forty to fifty feet high, and are skilfully hewed Into grotesque figures of men and beasts. BIRCHES' CHARM. At all seasons birches possess a quiet charm that seldom falls to win admiration. - Several kinds furnish wood valuable for lumber and many qther uses. Thick sheets of birch bark served the Indians for canoes, shoes, boxes and coverings for their lodges, says the American Forestry Mugaslne. Twenty-three hundred years ago the books of Numa Pom-pllius Pom-pllius are aaid to have been written on birch bark. Many a country schoolboy who haa been commissioned to cut a switch for his own punVchment "from that sour tree of knowledge now a birch." may not have appreciated the fart that this Is a tims honored use of this tree. The paper birch la the "glad" tree of the Northern woods because It hrlthtens and brings cheer to the dark places of the forest. Its white bark gleams In ctrikin- contrast ' . w |