Show Price of a Tree The owner oW r of an nn house apartment-house was ordered to pa pay 03 65 for tor a maple tree which he ordered cut down not knowing that It was city property Expert Expert Ex Ex- pert testimony determined the cost of replacing the tree When a tree Is felled and cut up Into logs its Us commercial value Is easIly easily easily ily calculated but the worth of a standing tree tree especially especially one within the city it limits limits limits-Is Is hardly to be determined determined deter deter- mined except for the very practical purpose of penalizing Its destroyer Time The earl early settler with the forest to contend with proceeds to clear the theland theland theland land about his home so that not a u sapling survives Towns In the midst of what a n generation ago was Michigan's Mich Mich- igans igan's timber belt are ure treeless or practically so and summers summer's sun and winters winter's wind find no to their violence Yet In cities trees are appreciated It must be that our eyes were vere Intended Intended intended In In- tended to receive more green ra rays 8 than any other since trees are turf turl are tire absolutely absolutely absolutely ab ab- necessary to save an any prospect from bleakness s. s Every ery tree In Detroit is precious and It is reassuring to learn that one cannot be felled without without without with with- out due action from the authorities Detroit News |