The silver star., 1898-04-07
ARsoR DAY PROCLAMATION.
Governor Adams Desig mates April 18Th -
the Time.


Governor Adams Desig nAtcs April 10Th -
the Time.
Governor Adams has issued his an
nual Arlor Day proclamation setting
forth the third Friday In April as tne
day when citizens of the state should
plant at leas, one tree. In few DAYS
Professor Patton. the state superinteh-
dent of public instruction, will issue
similar proclamation to the tenchers
and school children throughout the
stnte. In her proclamation Professor
Patton will suggest to the teachers 'ha,
they arrange II literary ana musi'.i'
program for that day and will ASK me
children to each plant tree. The pro
clamation issued by Governor Adams
reads as follows:
I'm accord with the statutes here
by designate Friday. April 10. as Arpor
Day. l earnestly invoke its Intelligent
observance by every citizen OF Colo.
RADIO. All interests could well aHord
TO suspend for a day their regular avo-
cations and give the time to tree pant
ing: no other investment Will pay IL
more satisfactory dividend.
Tree planting is a question of pun
lie economy-an act of patriotism.
Common sense and selfishness. as well
trees.
'As the teachers give instructions
suggested by The law. n lesson in bird
life would not be inappropriate. y
child that loves and cares for trees,
flowers, birds, will never become bad
citizen.
Groves. blossoms and birds are ma
lures poetry-the music and art of the
fields. In n treeless country you never
hear the celestial harmonies ;hat Long
fellow and Lowell heard the wind
play among the trees. Inspiration. pat
rotism. manhood. are seldom the prod
ucts of a treeless land. No poet sings.
no artist dreams in country upon
which falls the shadow Of neither tree
nor hill. Can we conceive of Il Chaucer.
IA Wadsworth, Il Scott or a Longfellow
without forests?
NO one ever came to n treeless coun
try for pleasure. or remained but from
compulsion.
mo story of liberty that has not lis
trees: they blend with every memory
of life; they are twincd upon the most
sacred of historic pages; they are sym
bols of every faith. Art, literature.
mythology draw from them some of
their riches; beauty.
"All men hunger for n monument;
there may be those more costly. but
none so useful. SO sensible or beautiful
rs Il tree. 1t carries not only Il sweet
memory of him who dropped the seed.
but pays n debt due the past and salts
iies an obligation which every mortal
owes 10 the future. The life of Il tree
touches more remote past and reaches
TO a more distant future than any 9th
al livinV tltinn ..f ,..1nt.,.
of Lebanan have lived through every
age of the Christian calendar. Olives
still grow upon the trees moistened by
the tears of n weeping Christ in Geth-
semane
The destiny OF Colorado will be
strongly Influenced by the science of
forestry and horticulture. With these
are allied the questions of rainfall, ir-
rigation. conservation of water, eli
mate
Every planted acre of forest makes
possible The future irrigation and cui;i-
vation Of several acres now arid and
dcsolate.
THE pleasant horticultural harvest
of 1897 demonstrates that orchard
planting satisfies the spirit of avaricc
as well as sentiment. Trees in Colo
rado are no; only an asset. but Il bless
ing. Il bcnediction.
God has given us valleys as rich as
Eden. mountains. skies and climate
that are Ideal: we need hut trees and
vcrdurc 10 become n home of beauty
and enchantment. II for each one OF
our half million population there
would be planted each year but single
tree, our descendants would soon revel
in n true Edenic land of beauty. hap
piness and prosperity.
In witness whereof have hercunto
So; my hand and caused the great seal
of the state to be affixed this 22d day
Of March. \. ID. 1895.
"ALVA ADAMS.
by the Governor: G. ii. s. Whipplc.
secretary Of state