Show THE UTAH BIG TREE Half a dozen miles from where CaptaIn Cap-taIn Calnes troop has been spending the summer Is situated the arlposa group of big trees the most celebrated of all the big tree groups There Is the largest standing tree In the world the Grizzly GIant Not rr away lies prone upon the ground the King or the Forest the greatest of all trees while all around are great trees that would be monarchs 01 the forest in any other land In this Mariposa group many of the big trees have been named after tile varIous state and the names paInted on tin or boards are tacked upon or suspended from them In the past when Utah people have gone through the group looking at the trees named for different states tlmey have looked In vain for one bearIng that of Utah I No longer will they look In vaIn for now one has been named for Utah To I CaptaIn CaIne belongs the credit for this thisI Is pleasant to thInk that in that grove of trees whosO tops have been poInting to heaven for thousands of I years one now bears the name of Utah The Utah was a gIant of the forest long before Columbus dreamed of seeking the IndIes by the western route I stood there baskIng In the sunlight and Warmth of summer and defying the storms of wInter before Erics days I stood there a tree of goodly size when the Child of Bethlehem was b9r Qf no grove In all the wide world can it be more fittingly said that the groves were Gods first temples than ot the Mariposa grove And the Utah tree 15 one of the pillars of the great Mariposa temple |