El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-14
REALTY MEN IN
TREE CAMP AIGN
Movement Started to Have
ALI Property Owners Plant
Trees on Property.

Real estate men OF FL Paso have
taken up, with enthusiasm. the propo-
sition OF the Real Estate board 10 in
augurate and push 3 tree planting cam
paign- The committee appointed at
Tuesdays luncheon of the Real Estate
board decided that Wednesday being
ArbOr day. was an appropriate time to
launch the campaign. The committee
was out Wednesday lining up the real
estate dealers and property owners OF
the city.
We are meeting with every encour-
agement," said Edgar y. Park, secre-
tary Of the Real Estate board, and We
expect our efforts TO result in the set
ting out of several thousand trees in FL
PasO this year II is little late to
start tree planting, but We can get
quite mum Der set out this month and
get property owners and home builders
to place orders for several carloads OF
trees for next winter"
r Z. Shermanthinks it one Of the
best moves the local rear estate men
have made Had every home builder
planted four trees when I came here.
four years ago, FL Paso would have been
much more beautiful today. This city
is building at the rate of 600 homes a
year. and four trees for each home
would mean 2400 trees planted this
year. Shade trees make FL PasO more
beautiful because Of their contrast TO
our environments, the somber bray
mountains and the WIDE. treeless
mesa"
Make FL PasO Beautiful.
IF the Real Estate board viii stay
right behind the movement and push
il, FL Paso will be the most beautiful
city west of the Mississippi in six
years" said Frank Coles. t.and do
not bar anything in California. I am
for the tree planting campaign and
the real estate men are in a position 10
make it GO
W. X. Ramsey. vice president OF the
Real Estate board was out yesterday
talking tree planting and said. IF the
owners OF vacant lots would plant trees
on them, II would greatly Increase the
value OF the property by making the
lots more attractive for building pur-
poses. Shade trees viii make even an
ugly spot look attractive. If We sue
coed in our undertaking, FL Paso win
be city OF beautiful shade trees in
five or six years and people passing
through will remember II PasO ever
afterward as a beautiful spot in a
lovely valley surrounded by sandy
plains and bleak mountains"
lis Splendid Effort
1t is a splendid effort" said j. l..
Mari, and should be pushed without
pause or relaxation. That We have
here some of the prettiest shade trees
in Texas, is proof positive that beauti
ful trees Will flourish mere, II given
proper care 1 do not think il viii be
difficult to persuade home builders
that il is to their own interest 10
plant trees"
Every Tree to Add beauty.
A II. Anderson, president of the Real
Estate board. doubts If property owners
could be forced by action Of the city
council to plant trees, and he says that
in some locations II would be unjust 10
force poor people to plant trees where
they would have TO blast holes and
create a soil for trees. But there are
very few spots in FL Paso where trees
cannot be grown at small cost. and II
the movement is pushed il win no doubt
result in the planting Of thousands OF
shade trees in the city. Every tree
planted will add 20 the beauty of Fl
Paso and make more attractive and de-
sirable the homes surrounded by shade
trees"
The owner Of every residence now
being erected in FL Paso viii be called