Show A HOME FOR THE OLIVE the past five ave years have proved coved that salt river valley to la a natural home for the be olive tree in 1884 B F johbson imported a few olive trees from california and planted them I 1 in a his bia garden at tempo tempe they started well and during the season made a very good growth the second season he was waa called abroad and the party in charge of the garden neglected the trees treed an aa they stood by themselves themi elves and he be not thinking them of any worth they had neither water nor cultivation the he summer through still they lived and made some growth in the spring of 1836 they were moved and roast reset which operation did not seem em to hurt them in the alabon of 1887 with good cultivation they put out limbs fourteen feet long and at the end of the reason in 1888 the he trees treed measured mea aured nsf W feet high with a spread of 15 feet in 1889 they bore their bret fant crop of berries berr iee and have produced regularly ever since increasing the crop year it will be seen that the trees came lorto into hearing bearing at five ave years old and are almost proof against drouth heat and arost since the planting of the first there have been trees planted each year the number gradually increasing until there were about planted the valley last year the trees surprise their owners and california olive planters tell us that our trees and berries are superior to any they ever saw before and are becoming quite enthusiastic over the matter the tree is in a very clean evergreen and never learned to die those planted one hundred years ago at the old mission in california are still alive and doing well notwithstanding the very poor care they have received there is nothing in the line of trees that can be planted with so great and lasting a profit it lives while the planter lives it blesses his bis children his bis grand and great grandchildren and BO on through many generation and furnishes furnia hea profit in the fruit it bears bean there to la nothing so BO much needed as a reliable place where we can look for pure olive oil and I 1 trust the people will be aliva to their interest and plant olive elive trees until we may have oil to season beacon our food with then we may do away with the fat of oxen and wine swine and have our meat and drink of oil and wine very truly W 8 |