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Show SYRUP FROM THE CITY TREES Whllo looking over tho city I have noticed the largo number of box elder trees growing on every 6treet and in every lot, no matter which way I turned. I noticed thy bark broken in many places and the bees taking tho 6veet from the sap which was oozing from tho breaks. As I watched them, my mind was carried back lo my boyhood boy-hood days, in the early eighties, when Kansas and Nebraska were classed as a new country, and was being settled by Eastern peoplo. who came west to get homes because of the homestead law, which gave thm the land free, ' We were all people, with nothing to do but build our sod houses, break and cultivate the land, and raise the grains and vegetables necessary to feed ourselves and animals, uf which we had very few. There were no railroads near us, no manufacturing of any kind, and, as a result, we had "no way of earning a dollar, and consequently conse-quently had no money. Tho result of havlug no money was that we were deprived of tho luxuries of life, and we contrived every way possible to get suine of them; and one of theni was maple syrup, which everybody likes with the corn cakes, of which we had a plenty We procured it lu tho following manner: Our neighbor, whom we all called Don, homesteaded a pleco of land through which a creek flowed, and along the creek n considerable amount of tlnibr grew. Many of the trees were of the variety referred to in the beginning of this prticle, and In some way Mr. Don discovered that tho sap which flowed freely from them whenever when-ever they were cJt or bruised was sweet, and be decided to experiment with the lhuld, with the result that he got a very good qualify uf syrup with a reasonable amount of evaporation. evapora-tion. He made it a paying proposition. Mr Don bad plenty of syrup in Us season, and be did not forget to share with his neighbor who had no trees from which to draw. Now, these trees In the city have eoi-'t their owners a great amount of money and labor, and seem of very little value: and the question is: Why does not sme one know about these tres us u syrup producer and take bold of the pioposltlou and supply sup-ply the city with n tplcndld uqallty of syrup, which would be taken for maple eyrup In nine. cass out of (en. and sae the people the expense of f relenting fo much of the product over the Rocky Mountains, making it so clu-ap that every one could afford to have svrup? (Sliced JAS W. H AWLEV. Ogden. March |