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Show WILL GROW TREES FOR SUIT LAKE RESERVE Nursery Laid Out and in Spring the Seeds Will Be Planted. W.i Iter B Hadley of the forest service. ser-vice. Department of Agriculture, with headquarters at Washington, D. C . Is registered at the CuUcn hotel, en route to FlagatafT, Ariz., where he will take up forestry work for the Government. In speaking of the work of the department de-partment on th- Salt Lake forest reserve re-serve during the past summer. Mr. Hadley stated that un Immense amount of work had been accomplished and steps would be tuken in the spring to replenish the forests with trees for the protection of the water supply. It is the duty of the men In the department of the bureau of forestry to visit the different forest reserves during the summer and make a careful study of the conditions and report to the Government, Gov-ernment, which in turn takes such action as will be beneficial to the surrounding sur-rounding country, with a view of Increasing In-creasing the ureter supply, etc On many of the ranges timber has been cut down, except upon the inacessible places, the underbrush has been burned and the grass cleaned off every year by live stock, thus leaving the mountain ranges bare and without the vegetation Which is the great retainer of moisture. Studying the Vegetation. The work of Mr. Hadley and associates asso-ciates upon the Salt Lake forest reserve re-serve this summer has been to study the vegetation, of which ten per cent needs replanting or to be replaced. During Dur-ing the summer GlrTord Plnchot, Chief Forrester of tin- d partment, visited the party during the summer and after being be-ing thoroughly satisfied with th- prospects, pros-pects, approved the plans an. i ordered the work to go ahead for the establishment establish-ment of a nursery in Big Cottonwood canyon, at mill D Nursery Is Laid Out. The ground for the nursery whs preparer! pre-parer! and the work of planting the seeds of three kinds of pine trees will start In the spring. The tree6 to be planted upon the reserve are: Douglass Doug-lass spruce or red pine, Er.gleman spruee- or white pine, and the Western yellow pine. About the first of May the Government will send its party to the proposed site of the nursery and a lath house SO by 480 feet and eight feet high will be erected. This lnclosure, whie-h will hae no roof. Is to be built entirely Ol lath, the lath being a lath apart Will Plant Seeds In this lnclosure will be planted the seeds of the three species of pins .'md for which a pipe line will he laid to give the plants the right amount of moisture. The lath house wl be built In sections so that they can be tilt.-d to govern the light and heat from the sun. When the plants have heen in the lath house a year they will be taken out and planted in rows as in a regular nursery where they will be closely watched for two years, at which time they will then be set out 'on the mountain slopes It Ir estimated that several thousand trees will be planted on the mountain slopes of the Salt Lake forest reserve in three ' years from next spring. Entertaining- Talker. Mr. Hadley. who graduated from Yale In 1904 and a distant relative of President Hadley of thai college, Is an entertaining talker upon the subject of forestry He leaves for Arizona within the next day or so, where he will be engaged In similar work for the next two months |