arm ballf MT tal THEIR LIVE AFTER it Is gratia ica though not at all unexpected to discover that ilia feasible fen sible luen among our colorado visitors alt acknowledge the importance of tho labors 0 our old settlers in laying the foundations of this greatness and kiy a high tribute to the wisdom and farsightedness those labors aero thero was reason to anticipate antici pite eliat the present excursionists would prove exceptions to the hundreds hun dreda of thousands of visitors who sinco and even detoro the advent of railroads paused in this groat garden in the of a greater desert to admire tho thrift and industry of people and so far from overlooking tho important fact wo find thern in their over the conquest which roan hag hero made over nature and foil of and kindly for the veterans works tell po grand a story A moro eterina and forbidding for the home of an agricultural people than these valley n were forty two years ago it would be to find anywhere on he globe the soil to all appearances was as dead as the set marks alio deepest depression of tho bocky mountain basin it aruin bled lilo lil o abes under the feet of the pioneers and its vegetable cowing consisted solely of the gray and scanty sagebrush alie streams where large found their way by irregular and stony to the lake where small thirstily fily soaked up by the parched land as soon as they issued arora the hills incept alio narrow fringe aloni tho river channels and in the foothills not a treo or meadow or green tiling of any lind relieved tho dry and desolate prospect which met the eye the country looked as though it were still suffering under a curso as blighting and eternal as that which overtook the ancient cities of the plain but with alio bordi this is the place the weary travelers ceased their march every drop of water was husbanded hus banded and irrigating ditches were marked out here and on the surface of the land alie brush was cleared off and where desola ion had ruled an air of busy life and well directed energy began to reign the early ditches gave way to canals cities grew up extensive farming districts dotted the valleys and trees threw their grateful shade and bore luscious fruit alie transformation in all its perfection can be seen today to day it has not been tho work of a year or a decade it has not been due to the capital or the brains of one man but it is the result of foty toilsome ears and the united unremitting labor of an industrious dust rious frugal community if we should forget the cost at which our prosperity babben bas ben bought we would be In grates of the basest kind and it a stranger who comes among if belittles the efforts of the or begrudges to tho old inhabitants the honor which their record has earned he is a stranger to justice and should be an alien to friendship in the day when men shall be rewarded for their great and noble deeds we have no fears that alie early settlers of utah their kotlier faults may be will fail of that hiigli commendation belongs to thoe out of a dreary desert a land pleasant as a parada