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Show j TO BEAUTIFY L0-y L0-y GAN AND CACHE COUNTY The Agricultdral Collcgo of Utah nt Logan' through the Iilrticultur.il department, hai laid extensive plans for the bcautlflcatlon of Utah by furnishing expert advice on the establishment es-tablishment of city parks, into camping grounds, street plantings, and by preaching the doctrluo of more beautiful bonne (rounds to the ' yeoplo of the state. Sereral pari , aad nufo camping grounds have al ready been constructed, some are in the process of consb tictlon, ;d the-werk the-werk of making flak more beauti-,ful beauti-,ful is well uder ry . Jj Mr. Kmll Hansen assistant !.i thi rtfJiepartmcnt of hon juUur aa superintendent sup-erintendent of erauai and green-"houses green-"houses at the college ,1s In charge ft of the work. Mr. Hansen Is an cx-i cx-i pert landscape gardener, with many years of practical experience In Denmark Den-mark where he serrcd as landscape gadener for the royal family, In Salt Lake City, Portland, Ore., and Hie college. According to Mr. Hansen and Dr. J M. C. .Merrill, profowsor of hoi'ttul-J hoi'ttul-J turo at the Agricultural Collage. I there Is a big move on In the staff J to beautify parks, farm homes and ,1 Indeed wholo cities and towns are M becoming aroused to the need of es-V es-V tabllslilng auto camping grounds, jj "The movement Is widespread," saja Ji Dr. Merrill, and wo look to see uo-jl uo-jl mendoous activity In this direction fl in tho next few joars." 1 In the last )car Mr. Hansen ha i planned four parks, tho grounds for $ the threo tabernacles and churches. T three high school grounds ,two col- lege grounds, one auto tourist cam? 1 and threo public school grounds. I These with tho size of the grounds and tho towns In which they ate located lo-cated are as follows: s Lorln Farr park, 47 acres, Ogden Fayson Memorial park, S acjea. Tayson. , noosovelt Memorial park, C acu-3, ItosevelC JUtah l' Tabernacle, 10 acres, nrlgliani j City, Utah. Box Elder High School, Brl&hani I City, Utah. I i North San Fete High School, 1" acres, MtJ Pleasant, Utah. Mjfe BcavcfCounty High, Schoool, Mll-I Mll-I 7? lord. Utah. i Branch Agricultural College, 2P acres, Cedar City, Utah. Dlxlo Normal College, 10 acn'8. St. acorgo, Utah. Tabernacle, G acres, Faro wan, Utah. -, Auto Tourist's Camplilg Ground, , Farowan.JUtnh. I Tubllc School, 10 acies", Faro wan, Utah. i Jefferson School, S acres, Preston, II Idaho. Central School, 2 acies, Fre'.'on, Idaho. Fourth ward Church, 1 aero, Tit-v ton, Idaho. Memorial park, Freston, Idaho. 1 A. Tho Memorial park at Preston is jMflP have an $8,500 monument dcdl- Jfff calcd to tho soldiers and Bailors from p' that vicinity who nerved under the colots. Tho Memorial park nt Pay- san la tho only onn of.Tts'klnd.lu tho' t t state? and there Is but one other HU it In tho United tSatrs. It Is uniquu iin Hint nil of tho 200 trees in tho park wero planted by returned soldiers sol-diers and sailors, with tho exception of a fow which were planted by tho relatives of. soldiers and sailors who lost their Hvcb In service. As an indication ofthe trcmendquH interest .which the people of the stale ro taking In the "More Beautiful 1 K ?Vi-ir.J"! Utah" movement, Mi. Hansen le-celves le-celves letters every day, requesting his help In planning the grounds of homes, churches, town layouts and city parks. Ho "recently planned a layout for tho town oi Delta, Utah, which it in aimed to make a model town. . Tho varieties of stree. tiecs fir tho town wero selected icoit lug to soil conditions of tho Ylclnlty. The streets are' 96 feet wide. The side-walsk, side-walsk, which are five fett wld, are placed S 1-2 feet from the property linos. There Is a distinct of tun feet between the sldewa K ao I tlio prqposed curbing, thus making tho parking on cither side of '.lit street 18 feet wldo and leaving tlu st'eet sixty feet fiom curb to cut'. Two thousand trees will ho planted plant-ed this spring. They will be of tlio following varieties: Cork I3lm, Ash, Norway Maple, Mulberry r.i.fl.'iib. Elm, Locust, Carolina Poplar, Sycamore, Syca-more, Black Willow and Bollcana Poplar. These trees aro to bo planted plant-ed 25 feet apart and with but o..o variety on each street. No comoi' trees aro to be planted. In addition to the trees for streqt planting' there are n'miinlof'-ot trees In different varieties to be pltntc-I In a city park, according to plat's submitted by "Mr. Hansen. Mr, Hansen has won natlua .vide repute through his woik at Do'ta and through tho otato In general. Ho recently received letters from ihs U. S. Depaitment of Agrlcultui. l&yklye & resume.' of Ms activities and the city of Palestine, Texas, !aj llso asked for assistance In' a civic im piovemenf piogtam. Directly due to Mr. Hansen's ef-foits ef-foits in communicating with S "pheii Mather, diiectoi of national parks, U. S. D. A., Washington, D. C, Zlon's paik lu southern Utult has been made a national park. Auto Tourljt Cait.pi would help greatly In beautifying the Ilee Hto state, and also bring many i.mie tourists and pleasuto setxera heio than now conin In (liu opinion ci Mi. Hansen. 'I wjuld suggest plenty of shade trees an 1 among thorn tables and ol.ul.'j Thcro should ba small tents for lent, at jeasonablo rateb, by tho day or wxk. Plenty of light is dtlia'!s nisi electric el-ectric coooklng fnellltitfi.'. Hydrants and drinking founts would hu scattered scat-tered about the grounus Mid It would be a great convenience o Irnvders to have a cement wash lank for nti-, tomobllcs. j "Every city on the main lino lliiu tho state should havo an u .o :ourist camping ground," said Mr. Hansen. "Tho time Is coming w hen all of them will. This Is but one small part of oun.plai to oca,utfy Utah,-and Utah,-and tho aidor with w'uv tho moe-ment moe-ment Is being taken up asscits the success of what promises 'o be a big thing for. tlio state. Cauipj along tho main tinveled toads would ioivo to advertise our towns, bine mere cars through during tho 3eu.ni when tourists are going to the coast anil to Yellowstone park and Utah would forthe travelers frjM aU'rar's of the country to admire. ' |