Show I ONLY TAME El WillOW PLANTATION IN WEST I MAY CENTER INDUSTRY AROU AROUND D LOGAN Logan Utah boasts of ot having having- the only tame willow plantation In all 1111 the westBy west By tame tamo willow Is meant a kind of ot cultivated willow which is specially fitted for or making baskets On the outskirts of oC Logan Elijah T T. Pierce an aged agel man has hasa a 3 plantation of some ten acres set et out in inthe inthe the willows and he ho Is cart carrying ln on a n hue flue I basket making business AIr Mr Ir Pierce learned his tra trade e ot of ha basket baskot i maker maler in the days das of Brigham Young Youn- When hen the Mormon leader was starting pioneer industries In Utah b by sending m mn n awa away to the east to learn various occupations occupations It Ml fell 11 to Mr Pierces Pierce's lot to learn basket making lie He went cast east and remained five fi years ear in several lar largo barge e factories and came caine bad bici an experienced d maker of baskets He lie settled settled set set- led in Logan and Is still there thero with Ith hl his family which he has supported by this trade rat e. e The tamo willow 1110 Is a Cl ry f peculiar sp nf or It a altitude a IL certain kind of dirt and a very dry do ry atmosphere Salt Lake L. CIt City Is too I dr dry for tor it H. Other places In iii the cast antoo art an- too high or too low but Logan Is exactly right t. t rhe The sticks on the tho plant are unbreakable un un- un- un breakable The can be bent in any shape without splitting and th that t Is what gives gl B them their value Tho They grow very readily and 6 swiftly new branches br soon filling In iii wh where r r. r the old ones me are cut out oust I Mr 1 Pierce I Is planning to build a large baa fac factory ory In Logan for foi the manufacture of ot hai baskets ets and may mar tIle file articles of Incorporation I I tion lion soon oon Ills sons ar are going In business with him It Is then b believed II cd and probably I with reason that Logan Losan will become the I I cantor of or basket manufacture in In tI the C west i i |