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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A MONUMENT TO SEA GULLS 



BY H. E. ZIMMERMAN 



A REMARKABLE monument now has place on the 

 grounds of the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City, 

 Utah. It is a shaft that cost $40,000, and was raised in 

 honor of the sea gull. Because such birds saved the 

 Mormon pioneers from a plague of grasshoppers they 

 are regarded with a reverence almost equal to that paid 

 to the sacred cow in the Orient. It was when the Mor- 



and it seemed that everything would be destroyed, and 

 that they must face starvation. Flocks of sea gulls, how- 

 ever, came from the great Salt Lake and elsewhere and, 

 showing no fear of the people, destroyed the grasshop- 

 pers. At the time the Mormon leaders declared that this 

 was a sign from Heaven that they had come to the 

 chosen land of modern days, and later generations have 

 not been permitted to forget the miracle. The laws of 

 Utah provide severe penalties for any one who kills a 

 sea gull, and they have been permitted to breed un- 

 molested about the inland sea. 



The State would have helped pay for this shaft, but 

 the church declined aid. The sculptor chosen was 

 Mahonri Young, a grandson of Brigham Young, who has 

 studied in Paris, and whose work is known among 

 artists abroad as well as in this country. In recent 

 years he has lived in New York. 



The monument is 36 feet high, and is surmounted by 

 a ball of granite from the Utah mountains, on which 

 a huge gull, fashioned from pure white marble, alights. 

 The square base of the shaft has four beautiful panels. 

 One shows a pioneer camping for the first time in the 

 valley. The second shows him following a plow, in 

 turn followed by gulls ; the third shows a harvest scene 

 with the gulls eating the grasshoppers, and the fourth tells 

 of the miracle of the gulls' visit. 



GOVERNMENT JOBS FOR QUALIFIED MEN 



rPHE United States Civil Service Commission an- 

 *- nounces that the Department of Agriculture is in 

 urgent need of assistants in white-pine blister-rust eradi- 

 cation, at entrance salaries ranging from $1,200 to $1,440 

 a year. These positions are open to men only. The 

 duties of assistants in white-pine blister-rust eradication 

 are scouting for white-pine blister-rust, directing squads 

 of men on blister-rust eradication, and in some cases 

 conducting, under supervision, investigations of methods 

 of eradication of this disease. For these positions cer- 

 tain specifications are made as to education and experi- 

 ence. Applicants will not be required to report at any 

 place for scholastic tests, but will be rated upon their 

 education, training and experience, as shown by their 

 applications and corroborative evidence and upon theses 

 submitted with the applications. Full information and 

 application blanks may be obtained by addressing the 

 United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, 

 D. C, or the secretary of the board of U. S. Civil Service 

 examiners at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, 

 Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Paul, St. Louis, New Orleans, 

 Seattle or San Francisco. 



THE MONUMENT 



For sheer beauty of design and purity of outline, it would be difficult to 

 find the peer of this monument, erected in honor of the gulls. 



mons had first come to the Salt Lake Valley, in 1848, 

 that the grasshoppers visited them. They had much dif- 

 ficulty in irrigating the arid land of the Salt Lake Val- 

 ley, and their food supply was almost exhausted before 

 the time for the first harvest. Then the pests appeared 



RICHARD T. GUTHRIE DECORATED 



CAPTAIN Richard T. Guthrie, formerly Forest Ex- 

 aminer in District 2 of the U. S. Forest Service, now 

 a member of Battery E, 17th Field Artillery, which is 

 brigaded with the French Army, was decorated on 

 May 7th with the Croix de Guerre. Captain Guthrie 

 resigned from the Forest Service early last spring and 

 entered the regular Army. 



