| Show The coming of the pioneers pioneer according to the good book says the salt lake tribute of the after his forty years wanderings in the wilderness moses thought he was on the border of the promised land and sent spies lo fo look out the land and by the brook of eshcol they found and appropriated a cluster of grapes which it took two men to carry they brought also pome granater gradates gra nates and figs they were gone forty days and they returned to kadesh in the wilderness of paran and showed the fruit and said we came into the land whither thou sandest us and surely it t floweth howeth with milk and honey and this Is if the fruit of it the pioneers who entered this valley forty nine years ago yesterday did not find quite such a land rather except for or a little grass in the valleys it was all desolation there were neither grapes crapes nor pomegranates nor figs they resented presented a pitiful spectacle surrounded as they were by the barren mountain ranges oneff one of these days some child of utah after the chase for gold and silver shall be a little over tome some inspired child of this region will carry from rom his brain to canvas the picture that will be painted there and it will be one that will have an honored place in the finest gallery that the artists of utah can ever make a little band in the heart of the american wilderness in the heart of what in all the geographies of those days was but a blank place except the mark the great american desert it itis Is a good abood thing for the men of utah it will be a good thing for the men of utah as long as civilization lasts to celebrate the anniversary of that coming and to realize that on such a foundation as that this state was laid |
