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Show SPARE THOSE BEAUTIFUL TREES. ' We are opposed to the uproot ingf any of our beautiful shade trees: Ave arc opposed to any order by the city officials which, if enforced, en-forced, would leave many places exposed for years lo the heat of the sun and rob many homes of one of the greatest comforts a shady rolrcal in the warm days of .summer. Working to a plan for the beautifying of Ogden ,it may be necessary nec-essary to cause certain trees to be planted on designated streets, but no shade tree that is not a nuisance should be cut down until ther is a tree to take it.s place. : if we must have new trees, let us wait for the young trees to grow to a size sufficient to afford shade before applying the ax lo the wide-spreading, vigorous box elder. Here is a communication on this subject from one of our most prominont business men that has our unqualified endorsement: "Ogden, Utah, September 5th, '12. Editor Standard: In last evening's news, I noticed an article headed, "Uprooting of Shade Trees Ordered," and from the article 1 would lake it, that all poplar, box elder, locust and cottonwood trees arc to be ordered uprooted; that is, in the parked district!, of tho city. It will not be a great while before the entire city is curbed, guttered and parkod and if this order is given to the uprooting of trees named in the parked districts, it seems to mc ;t will almost destroy de-stroy all of the shade trees of the city. 'I am personally much of an admirer of shrubbery and shade and I think that to remove all of the trees named in the districts, mentioned! would have a tendency to make our city look stripped and impoverished and would detract from the many charms it has today. I want to advance with the city as it advances and am very much in favour of improving the appearance of the city, where this, can be done without the destruction of property and it seems lo me it would be a good thing to begin improving by taking down undesirable unde-sirable and shabby billboards, broken down and dilapidated fences and compelling every person in sewer districts to modernize their homes and connect with the sewer, insisting on cleanliness about every ev-ery person's premises, seeing that all garbage and offensive substances substan-ces arc removed from back yards, and T would not object to the taking tak-ing out of some undesirable trees such as cottonwood, poplar and crooked and improperly placed box elder and locust trees and compelling com-pelling people to conform to some standard height of trimming all box elders, but T am opposed to the wholesale uprooting of the beautiful beau-tiful box elder tree. It is a native of this country and is one of the. most desirable shade trees lhal we have. Besides there are many persons in our city who arc getting near the 50 mark, who have been cultivating trees of this sort about their residences and lo compel them to take out those trees and plant hard wood trees to conform to the city ordinance would deprive them of shade during the balance bal-ance of their lives. "Personally, I have been cultivating some box elder trees for tho past thirty years. They have now reached the point where they give me a beautiful shade for my residence and it is not infrequently that a passerby admires them for their beauty and the shade they afford, and I would seriously object to having them taken out. Some use the argument that they drop their leaves every day in the summer, therefore, are not desirable. For my part, I do not see that they drop their leaves much more than other trees that arc suggested to be planted in their place and they do not drop their leaves but little during the certain months of the year Avhen they provide the best shade and any industrious man about his premises can, with very little ef fort, remove the leaves daily from his premises. "The writer was showing a San Francisco merchant about our city a very short time back and the merchant could not help, almost on each block of our city, admiring the beautiful foliage of the box elder tree and he expressed himself, as objecting strenously to the removing of almost any kind of shade tree, claiming that nothing beautifies a city more than beautiful shade trees. "Let us all take an interest in beautifying our city, be willing to curb, gutter and sidewalk the same; be sufficiently enterprising to pave important thoroughfares and periodically park the center of the blocks, but for one, I am personally opposed to the wholesale uprooting of the beautiful box elder tree (Signed) JAMES II DOUGLAS." |