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Show BOOKS OF UTAH PIONEERS ' Governor Cutler announces that the THiblie nay examine two extra ordinary books, -which were bound in 1S07. following fol-lowing tho semi-centennial of the Utah Pioneers, and containing tho original signatures of flu- survivors of the Pioneers Pio-neers of 1847. together with a complete record of births, companies in which this liioneors crossed the plains, tho names i ol i ho captains of hundreds and- rlio , lower subdivisions, and pledges to give r relics of the various expeditions to the i Historical society. The books weigh fifty pounds cae.h ! f especially handsome binding, j The corneni of the rover arn proteeledt "p-Utah silver, and on each corner is ( hirge billion of Utah copper. In tho centers of the front covers are replicas of the lirigham Young monument) in Ulah gold ami contained in an ornate . piece of l. (ah silver and copper. The portraits of Hrigham Young and Wilford ii NNoudniff. with hen- signatures, are in I j iic volumes, together with a history of the semi-eer.tennial and a copy of Gov ; ernor Weils s proclamation creating tit-I tit-I , commission of ten members and annro" . priiitins. 65000 to defray the expense of. h eclcbration. |