Show W chisom jan another column is a brief biographical sketch of the nan whose ca heads tats article he has been called home amm this sphere of action and he well merita the eat which death alone can give father one of the men make this rough wilder nesa an abiding place iov civilized loep he baa passed through choso thrilling indian battles now known only by song and novel he knew what it was to the burn ins thirst of a dry desert for he traveled from here to the coast when there wera no roads and watering places were uncertain he was possessed of ay indomitable spirit nod reat courage as was requisite m the work of subduing a wild country many little acts of heroism in his life will never be recorded but aloy have tended to advance the progress of our territory it was a lifo of self that P W lived his best efforts like choso of other utah pio neora were expended that others live in this now sanctified country utah will esver again witness a period of such humane devotion and self denial as that parsed through by father and others the fruit of the treo they planted now enrich our table tha canals they now chavey the capr to our farina the roads they built now berve ua biti little in our travel and the character thoy have left let u hope will help the nobler attributes of aur society P W was a poor ann though a pioneer pio noer we do not believe that wealth bad many allurements allure ments to him we rather think not because had ha been of r r r i vs v s a speculative turn of mind he could have owned a gibat deal of the lest land in this rich valley for he was one of Provo fl earliest pioneers it is a singular fact that most of our early settlers were imbued with other and loftier motives than the aggrandizement of wealth As hard as it was for them to gain a livelihood in those early days and when a dollar acet them more toil than it does us today f they gave more freely of their means toward kuplic enterprises in other words they did not value a dollar as highly as we now do though it cost them more to get their dollar or its equivalent that spirit ot benevolence or charity haa leu many of pioneers poor in earthly goods ant rich in all the qualities of human nature which self sacrifice brings such a |