Six Trees Planted by Daughters of Utah Pioneers The Bicentennial program held April 23, 1976 by the Daughters of the Utah Pio¬neers; flag ceremony and pledge of allegiance was con¬ducted by Deleen Sommers. President Grace B. Kilbourn of the Morgan County Daughters of the Utah Pio¬neers conducted the meeting and welcomed Commission¬er Paul Toone, Mr. Dean Pace and Bert Dickson and all of the Daughters present. "We are very happy to welcome all of you here today to help us in this bicenten¬nial program, I hope you have noticed the Utah State flag flying from the flag pole out there. We haven't had one in the county, so as we bought one, we are presenting it to the county so we can let people know that we are proud of our state and its flag. "Also in response to the request of Governor Rampton that we plant one mil¬lion trees this year and at the request of Kate B. Carter, president of the Central Camp of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers in Salt Lake City, we contacted President Keith Little and Commissioner Paul Toone, for permission to donate trees to be planted on the Stake Center and Riverside Park grounds. "This was granted and we consulted with Lorin Tonks and he designated the spots, helped to sel, and dug the holes for them to be planted. "We chose the BlueSpruce because it is the Utah State Tree. I have wondered why this tree was chosen, I have always associated the Blue Spruce, with Colorado, and I found that I was not the only one who didn't know. After some searching I found the following account in one of our own books, 'Trea¬sures of Pioneer History,' compiled by Kate B. Carter. Quote—"The Blue Spruce was named the official state tree of Utah by legislative enactment February 17,1932. This act was sponsored by the Utah Federation of Wo¬men's Clubs, and brought to the attention of the Legis¬lature by special committee appointed for that purpose. "This beautiful tree is na¬tive of the Rocky Mountains and abounds throughout Utah, flourishing especially in the Uintah Mountains and the southeast portion of the state."—Unquote." The Morgan County camp is donating one tree to the Stake Center, and one to the Riverside Park. The Mt. Joy camp and the Morgan camp are also donating one tree each, . the Stake Center and W liverside Park, six trees in all. Marie Tonks donated the two trees to the Morgan camp. The others were purchased from the Don Anderson evergreen tree farm in Porterville. We are happy to present these trees and the flag to Commissioner Paul Toone who is also representing Pres. Little, and Mayor Durrant who could not attend, so that all of the people in the county can enjoy them and we wish to thank all who have helped in any way to make this event possible. Commissioner Toone ac¬cepted the trees and flag and thanked the Daughters for them and for honoring,our pioneer forefathers. Mr. Pace had kindly ac¬cepted our invitation to bring his chorus to sing for us and they sang two numbers, "Down in the Sally Gardens" and "I Heard a Forest Pray¬ing", which was thoroughly enjoyed by all. A beautiful dedicatory prayer was offered by Daughter Emma Harding and the meeting was adjourned. The two Camp members remained for a special meet¬ing to elect new county of¬ficers. As my term of office is finished, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all who have been so kind to me and helped me in any way while I have tried in my weak way to fill such an im¬portant office.—Grace B. Kilbourn.