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Show DESTROYING THE TREES. Under the head of Big profit in Fjr Trees" the Salt Lake Telegram sa s. Local storekeepers are recieving large consignments of small fir pine and cedar trees for Christmas trees. The evergreens are brought from Mill Creek by the farmers, who get an average of 50 cents each for them The business is profitable as the farmers can haul fifty trees, realizing realiz-ing S25. per trip. The trees And ready sale. In the retail market good trees from four to six feet high can be had at 75 cents. For trees from 7 to 10 feet high, $J. is asked, and for those above ten feet, the priccsrange from $1.25 to 2.25 according to' size and symmetry. Now where do you suppose that-timber that-timber agent is that the farmer dnd storekeepers arc allowed to do a business like that with the xyoung trees. In some parts of 'the state people have been brought to book for sawing mature trees into lumber lum-ber and scllingthat, but here we have a profitable business being carried on by the destruction of the trees before they have grown largeenough to be of any use save to minister to the pleasures of the "Well to do." 41 |