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first visited Nebraska, on the invitation of my old school- 

 mate, J. Sterling Morton, I thought it had every element 

 of beauty but trees. This great want, as I have repeated 

 my visits year by year, I have seen supplied. In my 

 shooting trips, as I have sometimes rested in the shade of 

 Arbor Day trees, I can assure you that it has been none 

 the less grateful to me because I knew that the trees under 

 which I reposed were the product of a happy thought by 

 a dear friend. 



If it be true, as has been said, that the man was a pub- 

 lic benefactor who made two blades of grass grow where 

 only one grew before, what may not be said of the bene- 

 factions of the man who has made trees grow where none 

 grew before? Yours truly, 



WIRT DEXTER. 



FROM J. M. WOOLWORTH. 



OMAHA, NEB., April 9, 1888. 



DEAR SIR You have laid me under obligations by 

 asking me to join my fellow citizens in bearing testimony 

 to Mr. Morton's services to the cause of forestry. Those 

 of us whose memories go back to the days when the foun- 

 dations of social and civil order were being laid in 

 Nebraska will never forget our sense of loneliness as we 

 looked out upon the treeless prairies. Ever since those 



