Show r I II It I t Deciding on The Place PlaGe The The bottoms are arc we- we wa water weter ter excellent timber sufficient the soil good and well adapted to the and grasses suited to such BUch BUchan an elevated region These words declared Charles M CharlesM Harvey put Utah on the map the assumption being that this do- do de description ion of Fremont's influenced Brigham Young to lead hl hi hia people to the Great Basin Atlantic Mon Mon- Mon Mon- Monthly Monthly Vol ol pp course this is is an simplification over over of the question but it is significant At an any rate it is a fact that Fre- Fre Fremont's monts mont's monts mont's ont's report of his Ilia two expeditions to the Rocky Mountains and California and Oregon was wag received received ed cd by the Church and studied by I Brigham Young and the Council of the Twelve in the summer of 18 1845 5 After a months month's review of ot this re- re report report re report port and examination of all aU avail avail- available available available able maps and charts a full page account of his experiences around Great Salt Lake appeared in the September issue of the Nauvoo Neighbor The people had gradually been prepared for this thia full report by various short references reference to it and by Register extracts taken from Niles Nibs Regis ter and from other sources In fact everything concerning this thia far way section was eagerly read More and more was it becoming evident that the Mormons could not live at peace with their neighbors in themore the them themore m more re settled west but must move to some more remote and 2nd isolated part of the trans-Rocky trans Mountain west The practical wisdom of Brigham Young led him to look witha with a pre pre- prescient prescient pre prescient e eye e to some more undesirable undesirable undesirable able section he he could build buildup buildup buildup up Zion unmolested It seems at this early da date the Salt Lake Basin was beginning to impress him as The Place In fact he do- do declared de declared dared he saw aw in a vision in the Nauvoo temple the valley Into which he later larer led his persecuted people For the time however the picture was no doubt still rather vague ague So by every means possible he sought descriptive information about it One thing was WIlS clear the next move was waa not to be a mere shift from one selected spot to another in this section but a migration beyond the con con- confines confines con confines fines of or the United States as then defined for be it remembered the Grat Basin California and all the region the boundary line fixed by the treaty with Spain in 1819 belonged to Mexico while the Oregon country was in dispute between the United United- States and Eng England England England land As a solution of the latter question Joseph Smith had once suggested d he be should like to lead one hundred thousand men into Ore Oregon Oregon Oregon gon and take the country by force Moreover as previously noted he had urged the appointment of a to explore California and the whole Rocky Mountain west This imperialistic nationalism wa was wasa a patriotic commitment to the doc doc- doctrine doc doctrine trine of the Manifest l Destiny or of the United S States tes Another chap chapter chapter ter will give more details of Brig Brig- Brigham Brigham Brigham ham Youngs Young's part in carrying carrying out the design hero here indicated The fifth article by Dr Wm Win J Snow will appear next week weel I have 14 telephone for each population while Canada has bas 11 Denmark 8 Sweden 7 7 Norway 6 Australia G 5 Germany 4 Great Britain less han 3 France less than 2 Omaha has more telephones in proportion to population than MY any other city in the world having 30 telephones to every inhabitants In the development of this im- im important Important Im Important public utility at least it appears that the principle of private vate ownership has been amply vindicated |