Show I v L Utah's First Firs Arbor Ar or Day Jay Present 1010 than half a century og-o og Young second president of or the Mormon church and find pioneer I lender leader planted this tree in lit Libert Liberty park Since his death I ill in Il August 1877 his descendents have ha cared eared for fori I Ij j i it t. t i js Luc Lucy Luey Stillborn u Il g of Y U is here seen plastering ing U up hol holes in the mammoth old tree with concrete She is lS a daughter laughter of Mrs Ers Jo Joseph A. A A Sunburn Sanborn of Portland OreS Ore who was a n babe in II arms when the Ilic sapling was placed ill in the tho ground I A 1 I AAA kf V fl Jim M Mis is I f t I C 4 y I k 4 4 y r I J rg f D I Doctoring Tree Her Grandfather Grandfather Grandfather Grand Grand- father Planted Half Century Ago By Joe Fell Fehr s conI-s of oC seagulls were soaring S SCORES playfully over the city yesterday to remind as It were verc that hat toda today will bo ho a holiday for Cor man and bird bin beast and plant haired Gray-haired men and women were reminded that the an ancestors ancestors ancestors an- an of or these very cry birds saved their crops from total destruction and th thereby there reby re- re by made mado It possible for Salt Lake Lako City to grow and thrive and prosper I ver in the tho city people will wilt make gardens and plant trees a thing that has been done annually ever er since 1847 and which has turned a valley alluy of or sa sagebrush Into a veritable forest It was lom Young Youns' the thc founier or of Utah's commonwealth who first t saw the need of lIr trees In Salt Lake When I ho mapped out the city of or today he could see nothing nothing- but several hundred thousand acres of oC dry land covered with sa sagebrush to be rooted up But I by bv and b by he convinced his hla followers of the tho need of or fruit trees and shade trees and year ear b by year ear hundreds ot of I young oun tree saplings s were Imported Impelled and t planted In orderly fashion along alons- the streets In the tho northwest corner of Liberty park Is a grove grovo of stately trees that thai Brigham Young Youns- planted when Salt Sail Lake was still an oasis of oC the great American desert Later ter he planted u a grove rove of mulberry trees for the culture of or silk worms which thirty years ago ngo was a successful business here D By the I time he died his love for trees and gardening had become the ardent desire desire desire de de- de- de sire of or tho the community Hence today tollay old folks and children will spend theda the tho da day beautifying their home premises for or the thu ensuing year ear and thus helping to make Salt Lal Lake e really the City Beautiful of oC tho the country Amon Among tho the definite pro programs arranged arranged ar nr- ar- ar ran ranged ed for today toda will be tho the ceremony at the Capitol grounds when Governor Bamberger and other state officials will plant cypress trees and Norway maples Practically e cr every public school in in the elt city will have havo a tree planting function tills this morning at which all the tile teachers and pupils will take part |