Show A WISE PROPOSITION PR N THE TE THE COUNCIL should by all means L make the appropriation of ot re requested requested requested quested by the Utah Forestry association atlon for the purpose P of planting tim timber timber ber her seeds and cuttings In City Creek canyon can n and the other canyons which surround the city Forest fires have wept swept most of the th canyons until they are practically denuded of vegetation of every kind except wiry grass and sagebrush Their sides are unsightly sightly u and barren but the aesthetic side sid of the question may ay be left out ut of any consideration of the matter Timber and s shrubbery rubbery are needed in inthe Inthe inthe the canyons nyons c if 1 for tor nothing else than to hold back the snow from which the city draws Its summer supply of water It is a well recognized fact tact that where there is no timber and no undergrowth the snow melts much more rapidly than where the condi conditions condItions are reversed It is easy enough too to understand und that the shade cast ast casti by i y the trees and the bushes protects the snow from the rays of the sun and conserves it for gradual use as It melts It will take years Y ars of course to re restore restore restore store the canyons to their wb om wealth of timber but the appropriation appropriation atlon asked by the forestry association atlon will make a beginning that can cannot cannot cannot not be undertaken too promptly It would be difficult to imagine an ex expenditure expenditure of public money which would return a higher prospective dividend than this We hope the work will be started at t the earliest practicable moment |