The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-05-06

Carlos Cunanan, ranger in the bureau of for
estry of the agricultural college at Laguna, p. L.
has registered the planting of Seeding he took
from the Sierra Madre mountains and brought
to Los Banos to acclimatize it. The tree has
now been planted in the lowlands and is doing
fine, he reports.
Paul E. Nilsson of the American school at
Talas, Turkey, has registered the planting of
eight trees, and at his suggestion and that Of
Ambassador Crew. the American Tree associa-
ton has sent the bicentennial tree planting
message and its Forestry Primer" to more
than d score of schools in Turkey. These schools
include the Constantinople Womans college,
Robert college, the American Academy for Girls,
the American Boys school, and Ihsan Bey,
chairman of the council of education at Ankara.
Ambassador Grew says there is a keen inter-
est in tree planting of all kinds in Turkey.
There has been more than hundred regis
trations from the Boy Scouts in Hawaii, and
the library of the department of agriculture,
Kyoto Imperial university, Kyoto, Japan, has
asked for the bicentennial tree planting posters
and printed matter for display.
On April % the date on which Nebraska cele-
brates Arbor day, the fame of one of her dis
tinguished citizens went far beyond the borders
of that state For April %, 1882, was the GEN.
tennial of the birth of the Father of Arbor
Day. and a special commemorative stamp is
sue by the United States government, well
as special observances of the day in many parts
of the country, recalled to all Americans their
debt Of gratitude to ]. Sterling Morton.
Morton born in Adams, jefferson county,
N. Y, on April %, 1892 When he was two years
old his parents moved to Michigan and there
he grew up, attending private school in Mon
roe and then Methodist seminary in Albion.
In 1850 he entered the University of Michigan
and remained there for most Of the course,
but withdrew in his senior year and was grad
uated from Union college in his native state
In 1854.
In the same year he was married to Mich
igan girl and the young couple decided to "go
West and grow up with the country" They
settled first at Bellevue in the territory Of Ne
braska, but moved later to what is now Ne
braska City, where Morton was member Of
the town company, which surveyed and estab
lished that town. Adjacent to the townsite he
preempted a tract of land half mile square
and upon that site he built his home which he
called "Arbor Lodge"
Morton was the founder and first editor of
the first newspaper in Nebraska City, the Ne
braska City News and was prominent figure
in Nebraska during its territorial days In 1853
President Buchanan made him secretary of the
territory. and upon the resignation of Gov. Will
liam A. Richardson he became acting governor.
He was, however, more interested in other mat
tiers than in politics He was an original men,
Der of the Nebraska territorial board of agricul-
ture and the Territorial Horticultural society,"
Coming from two heavily-wooded states, New
York and Michigan. Morton was struck by the
bleakness of the "treeless state as Nebraska
was called at that time
The result was that at meeting of the state
board Of agriculture on January 4, 1872. Morton
introduced a resolution setting aside April 10
for tree planting so that Nebraska would be a
-treeless state no longer. More than a million
trees were planted that year and several mill
lion more during the following years
In 1885 the Nebraska legislature. wishing to
further honor the man who had originated the
idea Of Arbor day. passed an act changing the