Show FIRST PIONEER TO BE HONORED MONUMENT NT WILL BE ERECTED TO ORSON PRATT WAS SCHOLAR ANO AND SCIENTIST orson pratt was the first of the pioneers to enter salt lake lahe valley valle the fol following loving appreciation of 01 oron on pratt the noted scientist qt lon on lection with the mormon church churi h in the early das of iti existence ei tenee kept him h 11 in from the fame he will be read with interest int crest it irp earcil in the herald republican I 1 ast in tarda memo memon N of first pioneer who blazed the trill ino info salt like valley alley and looke I 1 out upon the sagebrush from the hill tops while the first bano bana of were cre still toiling through the mountain passes fir back a monument is to be erected to orson pratt the first sage enge of the wasatch va Na satch scientist scholar and philosopher beloved of his own people and recognized by the grei greatest test scientific body in the world as an eminent genlue orson pratt has lail icare in an obscure grive grine in the cit city cc eci tr with only a wooden slab for headstone boft no in belated recognition of their progenitor his descendants aid ed ti by the mormon church have hae plin ned a mashie marble that will take the place of the little wooden board and N will ill bear testimony to one of the greatest figures in his tore too september 19 1911 will b bo the one hundredth anniversary of this birth and if all pins go right the monument will be unveiled with ofa cial cerni cernin carmn n nn n that lay day it will be of plain polished marble without decoration on one will A ill be placed the legend orson pratt the first pioneer on the other will read mi M body dieth for the moment but my testimony cn en dureth foren forever er which were his last words nords pronounced on his death bell bed orson pratt gisborn s is born in washington a county newy ork S september I 1 11 1811 ile he developed de elored in earla carev life a 1 marked genius for astronomical and s lenti fic studies of all sorts turning west ard in quest of fortune he become identified with the early of the mormons cormons in mis alis soun and illinois A personal friend of brigham young and other leaders of the churchie church he assumed a nigh place in their councils and was has one of the first advocates of the plan to cross the plains and build a home in the untracked wilderness that stretched be bond the rocky mountains when the first exodus began out of nauvoo he was in the vanguard ind and as the westward match march progressed reseed he took upon himself the duties of pilot 11 he e marked the way across the plains and by his excellent ec ellent knowledge of engineering gi and curvo surveying ing provided remarkably mar kably apt in selecting the route thit hit later become the trans continental highway and finally the roadbed of the union pacifist r with erastus Snow Pratt found and entered the passes of the whilo while the main bode of ami migrants were several days behind following by meins me ins of stakes blazed trees and noti notices zei left b the intrepid pair that went ahead down through echo canyon into the valley of the wi ber chev came up eit cit canyon and to the top of the divide I 1 in lal migration cin from where jhc thc look ed cd first upon this ille the two scouts hid had h id one horge between them thel rodo rode ride and tie style one man riding on ting the animal to a tree and Froc ceding on foot until the other pas gabed cd him and in turn tied this the hore in this fashion they entered thu the valley three das daa ahead of if brigham young anil and his party pratt b chael entering first snow having lost his hia coat and r return turn cd to find it thus orson pratt bacomo bacome the pre pioneer then from his isolation and from man mani years of research he ha brought forth ideas and truths concerning the unie uniesee rEe and its ama ivis that startled the scientific world beyond biond the seas his first published theories thorlee th orlea on scientific and philoE philosophic ophie questions drew the attention ol of the academy of science which at that time was rec as the greatest body of thinkers on the globe he was vas later invest innest ed with membership in that society and reserved ree rese ived many flattering offers to enter the great universities ersi ties and laboratories of the east and lecture before men who have since received the stamp of fame he chose otherwise from a one roomed log cabin that recently was removed from within the temple pounds grounds he studied the skies carried on origin if research work and wrote the books that are now to be found in scientific and philosophic libraries the world over oer chief among thase the key to the universe and quadratic bi equations one a philosophical survey of things ai he saw them and the other a masterly treadle tige on mathe mathematics maties thit that th it has since been used as a textbook tt book jt at the university of utah and othir lions of learning soon after his arrival orson oreon pratt sur surveyed the line of standard time knortz is silt lake meridian many bears later when thi government covern ment surveyors urs ran the line they found it varied aried 6 with A ith pratts original ial isal by a matter of inches oell during his hia lifetime hl he demoted himself most tel ta the studs of his fa favorite scientific subjects and was has a frequent contributor to the scientific journals in both europe and america the in instruments with which a hoor ho worked ked man of them of his own make and his laboratory apparatus are arc now d it at the stati university as valuable relics the movement to build a monument was started ev ral weeks kecks ago at a reunion of the pratt family the church officials willingly offered lo 10 donate half the necessary amount and the remainder la is being collected from his descendants the total cost of the monument will be ISOO 1600 |