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Show ' some united action agreed upon, .future disaster may be a vert-led. vert-led. ' , j I Tho Latter-day Saints ought! : not to be governed by pu. eiy sel-. j fish motives in the use of their I ! landed inheritances. The nam-! ! 1 ber among us who have convert-1 led a single acre of our farms in-! in-! to forestry must ba extremely ! small, and yet it is a duty which 1 j we owe to ourselves and to those J who have the right to rely upon ! us to give this matter our earnest j consideration. The cultivation j of timber lands will in time be remunerative;, but we are so ac-'customed ac-'customed tolcckft-r immediate 1 returns that we insist upen an I early harvest, for all that we do, J 1 The policy of living for today is . not only destructive of oar mat-! erial interests, but it, begets, a! selfishness harmful to . religion I acd discreditable to patriotism. 1 No ward or branch of the! Church can long remain free! PLANT TREES- , 7 In the current number of the , -enile Instructor President, someth. , . . , would n?1-! Smltb bas a Wel1; ten article on the planting, ""rees which is well worthy of , drama . , . , .. r-rr anyth.ful consideration., Se re-( fuce the article and hope itj Sir i,e o-erierally acted upon: brought o" I still has tir it ! -esaor Fernow. of the De-: from a public interest without j endangering its spiritual and the i spirit of progress. Public interests in-terests are necessiry to protect ; us against the elements or social j tnd material decay. Evidences .of the truth of these, principles J i&re abundantly manifest in those i communities where public spirit j hss.. been wanting and public improvements im-provements have net been undertaken under-taken for years. The wise and active president of : a -stake or bishop of a ward will not fail to appreciate the value of a public, spirit and a united effort - in the accomplishrne"-.'--E. .- omp-ary omp-ary a "3 -aa carry'ns supplies to -triiVg for the use of the great "Dragon" himself. Not only did those No o.5ient of Forestry at Wash- ?erfPton, declares that at the pre-tne pre-tne J . . .ent rate of consumption our "supply of timber suitable for manufactured lumber will not 3ast thirty years. If it were true 1 "that our lumber supply was like- to be exhausted within the mext hundred years, it would j still be a matter of alarming con- cern to the people of this coun- The nseof lumber is not! he only serious question in vol v-Our v-Our trees aid the precipita- Bpi ' mo!sfcure and store it! Spay for its gradual distribution I ing the hot summer mouths. Th . may i time is not distant in UUh the trouble-ole will be' compelled is not so. ;r QWn jumbD ,. audacious sea rovers attack these boats, with their rich treasure of merchandise and food, bu "ip-tured "ip-tured them every ov " wiping ' ' ' we0?fre, trae'refbre ' suggest thl ... one of the public duties which ; every Latter-day Saint owes to ; the Church and to his country is the extension of valuable timber J j forestry upon both, private j lands and public domains. ' I No, it wasn't a pSJi.fr away out in Kansas or Arizona, but the Boston Herald that said, "Mr. Sankey is now out of sight." fall ample, but- some day; the 3regomans will demand a cessation cessa-tion of their forest ... destruction. destruc-tion. : The next Utah Legislature -sbould take some steps looking o tne increase ot our lorestry resources for the future in Utah; Trees do not mature in a year or two, and we must take some ac-&ioTi ac-&ioTi or Ut ill will be in a deplorable deplor-able condition through scarcity ml lumber before many years. It 5s said that there are some thirty! J Through the decision of the state supreme court, there will' now be a clearing out in th office of the county clerk. Mr. I ;A; L. Farrell will retire in t'avcr , of Mr. J.N Larson of Paradise. ' tf.o-asana saw mil's m tin 3 country coun-try and tiiat they are cutting at rate of forty thousand billion feet a year. Steel may do much to supply-former uses of timber, -bat there is no likelihood that it wiilsocn -nake any perceptible -xiecrease in oir enormous dc-.Riand dc-.Riand for lumber. 'We owe something some-thing to future generations and 5liose that declare "plenty more "Twiiere that came from" are reck-'3ssly reck-'3ssly indifferent to the gravest responsibilities. It is the business of presiding -authorities in stakes and wards -'if the Church to study thought-'ally thought-'ally and to forward the interests inter-ests of the people. It is to be .oped that these authorities inis will remove all Democratic Demo-cratic habitues of the county i court house except Sheriff Rigby, as it is expected .Clerk Larsen will appoint a new deputy depu-ty " and assistants- Mr. Farrell has been a capable and courteous !clrrkand his many friends wi1 wish him success , in whatever 'occupation he may embark. Mr: Larsen is a capable and intelligent intelli-gent young gentleman and .will ' be a first class clerk. He is re-' ceiving the xongratuiations of his wide circle of friends on hi entry. inco the office to which they believe . he was rightfully j elected. . j '-will look into the matter of es-"fca&ushing es-"fca&ushing the forestry industry -lid see if something can be done "ititfaeir sections of the country - 3K inaugurate the planting of rees on private estates for the -aepply cf lumoer in years to "come It would be commendable in the highest degree to the Lat--er-day Buiuls il they vsould set apart here and there a small -acreage of Iheir land to tree cul-"r. cul-"r. If this matter wete if ken This years's wheat h&rvst in Kansas' -was "a record breaker and well deserved the attention-' accorded to it in the August Review Re-view of Renews where an illustrated illus-trated article by Philip East-' mar describes the up-to-date machinery used by the Kansas farmer m harvesting and thresh-' mg his crop, and gives - an insight in-sight into, an almost beatific state of social and industrial content, where college pradn-' ft-s 'oied iJe by h;o wi c.j ' ' ;"'.:'-:- '-a : g.d i.ev una bounkrurtare. " j |