Show I To the Grand Army of the Republic II To the veterans of the Grand Army and to the strangers and within our We extend to you a cordial welcome to inland empire of the and to our beautiful We ex-Ki to you the glad hand of and What Shave is yours to enjoy during your short Many of you may Br heard or read some of the wierd and slanderous stories about and her Our desire while you are among us is that you your look into the hearts and homes as well as the of the You will say when you properly investigate that saw a people more intelligent and What to You will discover that Utah has a greater percentage of students school and a smaller percentage of and than any other You will find that Utah has a greater percentage of students great colleges and universities of the world than any other that these students stand higher morally and intellectually do the students from any other or creed in the learn that race suicide has no foot-hold in To be-wife and to bring into the world J and beautiful this is a leading aim of the IT of the young ladies In many parts of Utah 33 of the population is composed of lovable and healthy under eight years of Good Agriculture will ascertain that the great majority of the people of Utah and that they live by the sweat of the brow tilling an intelligent W Hin Uta has one of the the-best located and probably Agricultural Colleges in There jS people are taught to unite their their and bright with her deep rich soil and her water make it a to cultivate the and a tion to harvest the great Contentment and happiness result from this fruitful More people in Utah own the farms on which they live and the Utah farmers are freer from debt than those of any other A Look at the Go out into the country districts and see our prosperous farms in any of our beautiful and wonderful Now is a good time to view for they are covered with nature's cereal carpet of green yellow and more beautiful and resplendent the hues of Axminster or that ever covered the floor of a king's and everywhere they are decorated with cozy and well kept with great stacks of hay and The clang of the Yankee through he wheat fields will be music to your A View From The Gaze upon our mountains with their crowns of everlasting and America's greater mountains seem to rise in some enchanted vale in the north and they extend southward till their grand and-magnificent beauty is lost in the hazy dimness of the most healthful transparent and balmy climate on the Our lofty mountains and valleys are natures emblems of the happy husbandmen who till the soil at their While you are visiting Salt Lake City get upon some eminence and commune with the old Wasatch range on the east and and then with the blue range across the Dead Sea in the shade your eyes and look through over miles of space at the Bear River range on the Look at th sparkling canyon streams that flow out from the foot-hills and give liquid life to the the orchards and the corn Listen to the the and the As their songs float to your car through the rarefied they remind you of sweet chimes from some-distant Sit very close the mouth and breathe of the alfalfa blossoms will come to you-an the soul inspiring aroma more fragrant more than perfumes from the vine- of j u What the Mountains Look again at the Stone on mountain which return your gaze and inspire you to nobler and loftier You can see in their rough and rugged divinity and You can behold a beauty that no artist can a grandeur that no orator can a-poetry that can be written only on the a music that the anthems of Such mountains are for they are emblems of they reach from nature up to nature's They impart a that They stand ike giant during July and August they hold up their snowy crowns like olive branches beckoning the people of the Eastern and Southern States to come under their shadows where sun strokes and stifling heat never A Good A Good While you are thus enraptured with the wonders of ask yourself this Did Almighty God ever give to any other people as goodly a heritage as he has given to the people of Reverse the question and Did Almighty God ever give a country to any better people than he has given to the dwellers of Your answer can only Where every Utah farm or home or irrigation ditch now previous to 1847 was a desolate desert inhabited by coyotes and jack The magic changing of this desert into well tilled covered with bursting and beautiful and cozy farm was not effected without despair and And when you see the few remaining Utah pioneers on our whose hands have been deformed by whose backs have been bent by the burdens of pioneer whose faces have been wrinkled by the ravages of time and whose hair has been whitened by the snows of many you can exclaim as did St. John the arc they which came out of great tribulation and washed their robes and made them V. S. |