Show AN EMPIRE BUILDER THE HE ANNIVERSARY of sf BrI p THE 1 Youngs Youn birthday which wa waa eel cel celebrated yesterday recalls that lea services s to the west Great as a leader of men great in his bis ability to plan pIan and execute his hie chief claim to On n nai ai al 1 fame faille will wm be in the material monuments monuments 11 ments he left to perpetuate his part in inthe inthe the winning of the west est While Brigham Young had his own t idea ideas of religion reU and they were not always popular outside his own peo pee people people pie there re ran can an be no question as to his generalship in iB the pioneer work wok ed f the intern region Mon The policy c he outlined la k still the policy polley of his suc sue successors He lie Hew saw early earty that of tM the water supply ply in this region meant m nt command sf f the sources of ot strength that no settlement could be maintained without Irrigation Irr and aDd that colonization of the be streams and Dd of this arM arid rid region r on would gt e ebis Ills lits pe pie ie control of 01 the lines of march marchas as well of the principal al means m ans of life Foil Following p wing that line he gained pined and aDd held the t lP routes from east to west To Today day elay the Mormon people control almost absolutely the principal sources of wa water water Water ter supply in Utah in western Wyo Wyoming ming Ding in southern Idaho and south southeastern eastern Nevada They have thrived where a less I s diligent population would have nave starved and lid they have established e hed fin an industrial organization which has hasHo Ho ito peer petr for tor strength of precision pre I oa of t discipline and devotion to a religious cause au The spirit of the great organ organizer organIzer izer lit lives es and will wm continue to live for years p ars tc to come in the works of the men he led across the plains and their de descendants descendants descendants who follow in the paUl path he marked out ont He was one of the build builders builders ers fra of empire and his b is ability will witt be recognized reco more fully tully as time gives Ive a better perspective of the results result he achieve 0 |