Show TRAIL Of HE MORMON PIONEERS TO BE BEI I ROUTE ROUIE OF GREAT NATIONAL HIGHWAY State Starts Work on First Link of Boulevard in in Memory of Argonauts Argonaut By W. W R R. R Collier When work was started a a. few fe days ago o oon on a new automobile road following th the theold theold old Mormon trail from the eastern limits of or Salt Lake Lak to Echo canyon few persons persons persons per per- sons realized that It Il was a a. beginning In Inthis Inthis Inthis this state slate of the marking and preserving of the path of the pioneers of 1847 An n appropriation of I Is being u us used ed b by th the state road commission In Inthe Inthe Inthe the carrying ln out of the work and this It Is predicted Is only A beginning eventually It Is prophesied a smooth winding automobile Highway will swill follow tho the trail of the lie argonauts Its entire distance dis- dis lance tance of 1330 1350 miles from Crom Nauvoo Ill to Salt I Like Lake The section of the road now under conI construction construction con con- will wilt extend from Salt Silt Lake City I to Little mountain and emigration callon canyon can call yon on thence to Icho Echo With Its Us completion comple comple- lion tion to Echo there will hill he be formed ormed a Junction junction junction Junc junc- tion leading to Ogden over which auto auto- j can ride In perfect ea ease e The auto- auto 1st then may clay Journey journe from Salt Lake to Echo Icho to Ogden and ami b back ck to Salt Lake Lakeover Lakeover over a n triangle the entire distance being about aboul 0 miles When the road or boulevard Is completed completed com- com on the thel other t Ede de of Little mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain everything p. will be favorable fa to auto travelers on the Lincoln highway taking the Echo car canyon canon on road direct Into the city The new road under construction will follow the Le Lc Grand Young railroad bed bedfor bedfor bedfor for a distance Istance of ten miles and tl the e present present present pres pres- ent road will be Le converted concerted into a sheep trail trap I It t Is the opinion of oC C C. D Harding Hardin and others who have Investigated estimated the ro road d question as It af affects this state tate that tin the Lincoln highway promoters well might have ha cho chosen CM the old Mormon ormon trail lead leading In to the West est instead of oC the route the they I I l 41 d sc ec e iJ Hut But t aside from from the comme commercial value attached to 1 making of good road roads And AmI the manifold advantages of perfect ways voas especially In the far West cst there Is Isa Isa isa a sentimental feature In the marking of ot the old Mormon trail that Is o oC of the deepest deepest deep deep- est cst Interest to the people of Utah In l particular do does s this apply appl to per persons b ms of the he ol older er generation and to the de cue descendant descendants de- de of oC those plucky pluck and determined determined determined deter deter- mined pioneers of or the handcart days dars IOWA HELPS The The- making of or the Echo canon canyon road I Into this elt city Is not the first work ork begun to to Ito mark the Mormon trail Word ord has hafl been received ld here hore that the tho people o of Iowa Jowa are taking steps to mark and preserve preserve pre pre- serve the lute old Mormon trail between the tits I river rl on the east and the Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- river on the west it being a fact of ot history that the Mormons during their exodus toun founded ed prosperous towns in tho the southwestern part of that state stale Thus at a late day the pioneers piol of ot the church are given gl full credit for Cor establishing b lashing lishing communities which have grown I and prospered I Governor Simon Bamberger er has taken takena a per personal onal In the matter of or re restoring re- re storing the old Mormon trail in Utah But ut for the exigencies of or the war the road program In Utah would have o been In full swing this year and hundreds of or of auto highways would be added o the network of good roads This un- un would have included further restoration of the old ohl trail and arr arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ange- ange ments with other states whereby the Mormon ormon trail would be marked and anti preserved pre pre- I served its entire length lenth I However the start has been made greatly to the satisfaction of or man many who I arc interested Andrew Jensen official historian of the Church of or Jesus Jesu Christ of or Latter day I Saints has addressed a letter of felicitation felicitation felicitation felicita felicita- tion to Governor upon the subject It follows I MOVE IN RIGHT DIRECTION My attention has ha been drawn to the fact that has been Leen appropriated l lout I out of a fi certain fund to build an automobile automobile auto auto- mobile road following as nearly sis us POble po posa pos pos- a ble ble the old Mormon trail frail from the mouth of oC Echo canyon canon to Salt Lake City Permit me mo to sa Ea say that the tho step thus taken gives elves me much satisfaction as I f think It a t movement In the right direction direction tion The time Um is fast coming when the Mormon pioneers will wiH be credited with ith that which has b been en due them all th the tho time and it might not be amiss s If I t draw your attention to what the tho exodus of the Mormons from Nauvoo Ill III In 1846 and the arrival al hero of oC th the than vanguard van van- vanguard guard of tho the society in IS 1517 17 means lC to the Western estern part pirt of America During the tho j years rears ears that thit Intervened Inter between the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers on Plymouth mouth Rock In 16 1620 16 O and amI tho the arrival of ot the Mormon to mon exiles on the I bank of ot tho the Missouri ls river rl In the I pioneers of oC America had succeeded In penetrating 1 1500 OO miles from the Atlantic coast inland But all al that extensive e country coun- coun tr try the larger half of what Is now the United States of oC America was In 1847 ISH ISHa a barren waste portions of It only be beIng beIng being be- be ing Inhabited by bv nomadic tribes of ot North orth American Indians During that year the Mormons under tho the leadership of or Brigham Young penetrated 1000 miles further Into the tho heart of the great American American Amer Amer- ican desert planting a halfway house inthis Inthis in inthis this valley alle which at once made further travel between the Missouri river on the east and the Pacific coast on the west quite ca easy This journey of ot the Mormon pioneers undertaken in the midst of poverty and distress meant the tho founding of oC the f first Saxon Anglo settlements not only in I Utah but hut in Nebraska V Wyoming Colorado Colo- Colo rado Idaho and Nevada evada b by this same Mormon community It It Is b by far the greatest pioneer cw cyclic c in the history of or America and It Is to bo be hoped that tho Mormon trail will twill not only be preserved I cd and marked bet between een Echo can canyon on and Salt Lace e City but that In the near futura It will he Vw similar 3 marked matke-d all the way from the Missouri river to this values valley Practically the Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon trail rail commences commenced at 1 A ire r. t county count la la Ia and the tho good p people ople of Iowa Iona have already taken steps to mark and preserve e tho the old lId Mormon ormon trail between the thc Mississippi river on the east ast and the Missouri river on the west knowing knowin full well that the Mormons during their ex exodus exodus ox- ox odus founded such towns as Garden Grove Gro Mount Pisgah and Council Bluffs In South and Southwestern Iowa Consequently the Mormon trail actually actu- actu ill ally measures about 1350 miles Suppose for a moment we C compare notes with the J Israelites of oC old In their travels travel from Ig Egypt pt to their promised canaan cancan It tOOl too that cho chosen cn people under the leadership of or Moses fOIt forty years to transplant their colonies from the land of oC Goshen on tho the bank b. of ot the tha Nile to the land of or na CO Canaan in inamI and amI the distance traveled was no further than tho the of oC WO miles covered b bv by Mormon lormon pioneers from Montrose to Council Bl Bluffs Ia la Within a year car ami t Continued on page 2 TRAIL OF MORMON Continued o ln cd from ro page ase 1 a half haIr the Mormons removed their h headquarters headquarters head head- d quarters from Nauvoo III 1350 miles West rest to Ito this valley where Salt Sail Lake Lako City was w wlas s founded In In July Jul 1847 WORK RECOGNIZED As As years ears cars rolled b by the tho achievements of or the Mormon pioneers will become better better better bet bet- ter and better known Leading colleges of the East are already alread send sending InS InS' representatives cs es to this city to obtain historical Information concerning car early Utah da days e and pictures of pioneer days das are be being Ins collected for tor art galleries in different parts of or the country countr Even liven California has on different occasions occasions occasions occa occa- shown its recognition of oC what the pioneers mean to that state ever remembering remembering remembering bering the I services er ces of or the Mormon battalion battalion bat bat- the march of ot which across acro s the American continent meant tho the blazing o of another Mormon trail besides cs the one made by tho pioneers of or Utah It la Is a notable fact tact that the Mormon boys boya OS O'S at Camp J earn are ate training at the present time almost on the cr very ground which mar marked Iced the termination of or of the great reat march across the continently con continent t b tho the Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon battalion in 1846 47 Nor can it be forgotten that the first arrivals of or Anglo Anglo- Saxon emigrants in California after that country countr ha had been taken possession of oC by Americans were Mormon 1 pioneers who had doubled Cape pe Horn In the r nl ail n Brooklyn In In n 1 1516 h J J V SOME MORMON HISTORY A part rt of or the Mormons who came In that ship had landed at Buena a a. small Spanish village became tho the actual ac- ac actual ac ac- founders of or the present San FranI Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco where they Introduced the first I Saxon Anglo civilization on the Pacific coast published the first American newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper of an any con consequence in the state of or California founded the first farming settlement settlement settlement set set- in tho the great San Joaquin valley val val- alley al Ic ley dl discovered tho first gold ol In California Califor Califor- nia nn and subsequently founded rounded the large and prosperous settlement of or tho the San Bernardino In ln Southern California Arizona Ari Arr I zona and New Mexico aro arc al also o indebted to the Mormon pioneers for the existence of quite a number o of their most flourishing flour Jour settlements of the day clay Your noble action in making the appropriation ap- ap mentioned in the the- beginning of or my communication communisation has inspired Inspire the writing of or these lines I my myself elf as an emigrant two fifty-two years ago followed the old Mormon trail with ox o team from the Missouri river rl to this valley alley and I still cherish in m my mind sweet recollection recollection recollection tion from m my boyhood da days s of almost every er section of or the road ro This will serve ser as an apology for tending sending you vou this communication communication com com- muni in which I think thine I have uttered uttered uttered ut ut- the sentiments of or a great reat number L L 11 n u 1 1 I 01 of others yet yei el auvo 0 who no with wun WILli weary we i m s sand an and In a a. condition tramped over plains mountains and wilderness be before before bo- bo I fore or 01 after ox teams team handcarts etc otc in order to make malce Utah their future home That th they succeeded perhaps bettor than they the thought they would is pi proven oven b bv tho the existence of or this grand rand city near th the tho shores ur of the Great Salt bait alt lake which In ht beauty artistic planning and present prosperity can scarcely be excelled b by an any city In this wi wide wido do world worl of ours not notto notto to speak of or tho the hundreds of or other beautiful beautiful beau heau- and prosperous cities towns town villages Villages vil 11 Vil- Vil lages la es hamlets hamlet ranches farms and or orchards orchards orchard or- or chard with which not only the fertile valley lying In tho the shado shade of or the tho great Wasatch mountain range are arc dotted but practically Pr the whole Western half haIC of or the tho United States is to be to a greater or orless less lesl extent Indebted to tho labors of the this Mormon pioneers It It is to be hoped that the i appropriation appropriation of or to Improve a small section section sec sec- tion of or the Pioneer trail ma may soon Man be followed b by other approprIation appropriations In other tates ta until r. cr every foot oat of or the trail tr from fromI ih Mississippi to the Pacific coast shall be he so distinctly marl marked ed and amI mado made ac tic- accessible for travel that it will mean that millions of or people in the future will make mako pilgrimages over the continent following the tho old Mormon orm n trail enthused with the accomplishments of 18 1840 1846 6 and 1847 ISH and will honor Brigham Young as nB Americas America's greatest t plon pioneer er I and those who colonized under him as among the greatest benefactors benefactors bene bene- factors 1 that t the world worM has ever known 0 |