Show A tree A few days aso ago an article appeared in the baws on the subject of arboriculture c 1 al suggesting the propriety of more extensive efforts on the part of people generally lin in the direction of gand cultivating different kinds ol of trees for the purpose of increasing the product of the territory in timber shade and fruit trees in considering thle the kinds to be planted there is one indigenous to this country that should not be omitted i e the box elder tuese these trees were round in tile the canons and along the water courses of salt lake valley when the pioneers first came here in 1847 and make very tine shade trees grow to large size and the timber being a it light bt colored hard bard wood takes a beautiful win satin finish and I 1 is well adapted tor for the manufacture of atte I 1 furniture 1 inlaid work etc X abair bair sample ol of this tree can be seen on the wilkinson corner cor nerone one block east eti 91 the court house ab about eighteen years ago agot brother 0 i merkley Mer klev of this city pulled up a small box elder sapling which had grown I 1 I 1 from the seed since he be planted his orchard and set it out on the fronting his bis lot as a shade tree today the heavy branches extend over ever i breadth of sixty feet and it extends extend gi like distance towards the zenith while at a point three feet from the ground the trunk measures eight feet in cir cum ference well exclaims the reader there are many such trees in this city I 1 isee sec nothing remarkable about aboul that perhaps not but the remarkable fei feg ture tare in this connection is that the tree is not only intrinsically valuable as ag I a sha shade detree tree and for the amount of vil dable timber it contains but also lot io its saccharine properties from www the proprietor makes sugar equal h appearance n ce and flavor to maple sup made tw way ay down in malve maine a sample of which was exhibited in this office I 1 1 and pronounced by all present a no i 1 article at the proper season sonic some time in february the tree is tapped in ic much the same way that maples are and the juice boiled down to the proper consistency for fer granulation into sugar of course from a single try tree the amount obtained Is limited but were a large area planted with such trees the proprietor would te be com COB 1 ively independent of the autti trust or adulteration by glucose the tree from which this sugar is ii obtained is alf situated hated on the north side of north temple street opposite no west on the north side of the street it is is said that the peor poor indian finds in stones and good it everything but brother merkley to is undoubtedly undoubted lj the first in this locality to find sugar in box elders |