Show The Denver Republican makes some I comments on Utah and her settlement all timely Among other things it sa sIt s-It is not difficult to imagine what the Mormon pioneers thought when standing upon the border of the valley val-ley they looked for the first time upon the beautiful landscape spread before their feet There are not in the whole world many views so enchanting and to those pilgrims with longing hearts and weary feet it must have appeared like a vision of a promised land such as the Israelites went forth from Egypt to seek It was to them a haven of I refuge and it appeared all the more delightful in their eyes because religious I relig-ious faith made them accept the declaration declar-ation that it was the land which Brigham Brig-ham Young had seen in a vision I They found it a desert In a few years they made it flow with Iillk and honey They did not hesitate long to fill the valley with ditches to reclaim the soil and thereby provide sustenance for themselves and their families It community dependent was religious industrially upon agriculture which was founded Its material growth was therefore slaw The mines were neglected neg-lected There was no great rush of miners prospectors as there was a few years later to California and later still tp Colorado and Montana The populatiOrTpreserved i its peculiar religious relig-ious character until Mormonism had struck its roots so t eepinto Utahs soil that 11t Is the l con1V lTln factor there I tod todt 1 I |