Show 6 y s There has b cn a pilgrimage to I Rapid City made up of ot a great assort assort- assortment assortment assortment ment of ot humankind Wonder If any of the eastern visit visit- visitors visitors ors to the summer White While House have thought of ot the changes which have ale alet t come to this western country in the past pSt half halt century Mayer assigned to the high school cadet corps from Irom the regular army said that in 1877 he drove from Bismarck westward to the tire Black Dlack Hills Hillsand Hillsand Hillsand and In a distance of ot miles did not see one habitation of a white man I That was W S in the days das of the Black Hills mining excitement c. when trains of freighters with their big prairie schooners and oxen and emigrants with their covered wagons would stretch out in one long line extending as far tar as 20 miles mlles In those days it was Dakota terri tern territory tory and the roads were nothing more than trails would Accompanying the travelers bt be b a company of ot soldiers to guard attack by the Indians tI MT M f. r Those ct r I t prairie schooners with their 16 t l t 1 t 1 20 yoke joke of oxen have disappeared Even the covered wagon wason has gone I The bull bult whacker Wh has gone with them and 10 so o have have- nearly all the pio plo neves The days days- of western roughing It have passed The west as an inheritance still has some of ot the good fellowship of ot the thelong thelong long ago but not that rich hospitality which made every stranger welcome and denied no one a place to sleep or ort t something to eat 1 It would not be possible to ke keep p the wide open house today that mats mack ma ed cd every ew ry log cabin in n the west vest in th th the days when white men f uM the sav sav- savagery savagery agery of ot the hills and plains and felt the need of comrades John Mule Muir u ii when whan he he was In fn the Sequoia forest of ot California found a never ending source of study of ot those giant trees which he ne declared c aced unless un un- unless unless less destroyed by y man live on indefinitely until burned sundered by light light- lightning lightning lightning ning or cast down by the storms They seem em to be Immortal He examined the rings to determine the age of ot one colossal c monument and counted over on which he made this comment The rings showed that this tree was ras rasIn In its Ita prime swaying in the Sierra winds when Christ walked on the earth No othe tree in the world has looked down on so many cen centuries or opens such impressive and suggestive views into history Raymond Gery of the forest service who has made a study of ot the trees of ot Utah tells of ot the timber In the Wasatch Wa range He lie says Lying to the cast east of ot Og Og- Ogden Ogden Og- Og Ogden den is the Douglas fir and practically all of sufficient size for tor saw timber has been cut Possibly 15 to 20 mil mil- million million million lion board feet teet have been removed cd I He quotes H H II Spencer as stating that the more extensive cuttings were j commenced in the early seventies se Then he gives these figures From to feet were cut each year jear ear from 1874 to t 1900 at the Billy Wilson Wilon WIl on mill mm in Ogden canyon From two to three million feet were cut t In North Ogden canyon from l 1374 1874 to 1884 About 11 1 million feet were cut In Wheeler canyon prior to 1814 1874 From 1878 to t 1883 two to three million feet were cut along the creek emptying into th th South Fork al Beaver creek About one million feet were cut cu en cn the South Fork from 1878 to t 1883 and two 1 million feet on Beaver Deaver from 1878 to 1883 Mr tr Spencer further states that thit some rome six million feet were cut from the east slope of cf Monte Cristo from 1872 to 1880 This timber limber was brought I to Ogden by ox teams and sold at 30 30 per thousand I The men hauling the timber were paid 12 per thousand in timber or orI 9 to 10 in cash c I Three of ot the sawmills were oper open operated seed by water wheels and the others by steam Two up and down saws were used the others being circular N u lar tar I It would be a fine piece of work to labor to restore some of the timber taken from the headwaters of the streams east of ot Ogden Ogden-In In the Wasatch range In the meantime an automobile road Toad should be built bunt to the summit of ot Monte Cristo so as to make that land lane landof I of far tar vistas of ot forests and aud streams and tops mountain and deep canyons canons a part of ot Ogden's s outdoors Tourists dining in the Hotel Bice- Bice Bicelow Bigelow low are attracted to the exhibition of I paintings by Utah artists to be seen on the mezzanine floor noor The paintings are by b John Hafen end nd Lee Green Grcen Richards The exhibit Is in charge of J J. J A A. A Packer the sculptor and he Intends to sake nake the mezzanine known as the I Continued on Page Two i I l NEWS NEViS AND VIEWS VIE Continued From Page Paje OrA One Hotel art gallery gaUer to which the public Is Invited The purpose of the display is to ac acquaint ac- ac acquaint acquaint quaint local people as well as visitors with the works of Utah artists and en encourage en- en encourage encourage courage the purchase of works of art Each month throughout the year different artists will have their paint paint- paintings paintIngs paintings ings in the gallery gallery- Utah has a number num r of most capable painters President Coolidge has authorized the building of a greater navy with the rushing to completion of eight cruisers That is an answer to Great Britain's failure to accept the American terms of disarmament given at Geneva Now that the start has been made there should be no bluffing The The United States within a few years year ear should have the strongest navy afloat t. t The world bows to the powerful and turns from the weak Let us prove that America has leadership Never had America commanded so much deference as has been given ln since the World war Prior to that time Europe and even Asia and South America thought of Americans as money makers too soft sort for the strenuous things of life le and they laughed at et our assumption of greatness America if only for a n day should have the mightiest of navies na What has made Edison the great Inventor that he he heIs is The answer may be found In Jn the statement that be he is tireless in pur pur- pursuit pursuit pursuit suit of an idea He Is a man over 80 80 and though aged he sets himself many a task which young men would reject Recently he became interested in making America Independent of for for- foreign foreign foreign eign countries in the obtaining of rub rub- rubber rubber ber and so he started to study the subject of rubber He spent days in the e library of the New York Botanical gardens reading on rubber and he had an assistant give abstracts of foreign books on that subject Again one Is reminded that genius is in great part enthusiastic devotion to a II purpose Edison is proving that a man is never so old as liS to be useless |