| Show PLANT TREES the one thing wanted to make this valley beautiful is trees randolph and woodruff are not very inviting in appearance and would deter many people from settling in these towns who would otherwise do so it trees were a more prominent feature A treeless home exposed to the glare of the hot sun in summer and an d every cold blast of wind in winter is riot not the most pleasant home in the world what is more grateful and pleasant after a hard days toil than to sit and commune with bour your wife and family or with yourself under the hade bade of beautiful trees their beauty is pleasing to the eye and restful to the soul in I n the summer time the good wife can have her washtub under their shade and the tiresome washing will seem a pleasure to her song birds of which we have so few in utah will come and dwell with us and make life more pleasant with their cheery music this can all be done and now is the time to begin it is useless planting such trees as poplars and balm of gileadi gi leads their soft bark renders them unfit to stand the rigors of winter here cottonwoods Cotton woods and where water is abundant black willows are of sure growth the latter growing rapidly and making one of the best shade trees imaginable trees could be planted alongside of our canals on one bank only so as not to interfere with the work of dredging and cleaning them out in many places where the canal banks are liable to break the roots of the trees planted would make the banks stronger and less liable to break it if we want this valley settled as it should be we must make it beautiful and pleasing to the eye many home seekers would turn aside from a dreary cheerless looking treeless town and settle in a more beautiful spot even though they had to work harder to earn a livelihood |
