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Show Exploration of Ensign Peak Celebrated $ 3 3 3 Pioneers' Descendants Climb Mountain 1 ELDEST PERSONS attending second annual Ensign stake celebration of the exploration and naming of Ensign J peak held last night. Reading from left to right they are Mrs. Mary Ann Hadley, 73; W. J. A. Tmims, .4; Paul Harmner 80- and John E. White, 73. Below Descendants of the original Ensign peri exploration party, together to-gether with last night's speakers. Left to right Joseph Kimball, Andrew Jenson, Mrs. Lathiila Pratt Kimball, , Clark Kimball, Bishop Asahel H. Woodruff, holding Asahel Lincoln Woodruff and President Richard W. Young. I I 1 "t - ' - , - H r - ' ' r ' ' -" . . i ' - s' Ivr ' " ; J i ' . ' , f f 1 ; ' ! s U xl ! I v , - , s ; - ft - - - ,JSv- -V y - i . t --w-i . . f ' i ; -7" "v J - t i I V 'i " - " : ' VY ' :' ' i r ! i - it - ' .1 5 JL' ' I-m ' J L-5 x ' i- J t , Boy Scouts Raise National Colors at Beginning of Exercises. ORE than 200 persons climbed to K tho summit of Ensign peak last night to take part in tho second If X annual celebration of the Ensign stake, commemorating the exploration explor-ation and namjns: of the peak, which occurred oc-curred July 26, 1S4T. j Boy Scouts of troop 47, under the diree- ; tioti of Scoutmasters A. A. Johnson and Donald Cameron, raised the national colors col-ors on the flagpole. The exercises began with the singing of "America" and the pioneer hymn, "Come. Come. Te Saints." under- the direction di-rection of Stake Chorister H. E. Giles. The invocation was offered by Joseph , Kimball. Mrs. Laurinda B. Brewerton sang "O Ye Mountains High." Andrew Jenson, assistant I,. D. S. church historian, was introduced by John D. Giles, the presiding officer. Mr. Jenson related the travels of the pioneers to the ! Great Salt Lake valley, and said: "Two! davs after the arrival of the pioneers in I the vallev. Julv 26. 1S47. President Brig- 1 ham Young. Heber C. Kimball, Wilford I Woodruff. George A. Smith. Ezra T. Benson, Ben-son, Willard Richards. Albert Carringlon and William Clayton started from camp on a short exploring expedition. Ascending Ascend-ing ihe mountains northward. they reached the top of. a high peak, which they considered a good -place to raise an ensign. They named it "Ensign peak." a name by which it is still known. Wilford Woodruff was the' first person to ascend this hill. "From this point the explorers ne- I scended to the valley below and then started north to visit the Hot Sulphur springs. . a Richard TV. Young, president of the En-sing En-sing stake, said: "This peak has stood for years as proof of the patriotism of the "people of Utah. For the last fifty vears people have looked at this peak as an altar of patriotism." In memory of the hardships endured by the pioneers, Mr Young said their greatest trait. and one which he wished all to remember, was that "their word was as good as their bond, for the pioneers were honest men and -women." ftcr the singing of the "Star-Spangled Banner " the benediction was pronounced by Asahel H. Woodruff. A feature of the exercises was the attendance at-tendance of the descendants- of the original orig-inal Ensign peak exploration party. Those prsent 'were Joseph KimbaJI, a son of Heber C. Kimball, and Clark Kim-hall Kim-hall a grandson: Mrs. Lathiila Pratt Kimball Kim-ball a daughter of Orson Pratt: Asahel H Woodruff, a son of Wilford Woodrulf. and sahel Lincoln Woodruff, a great grandson: Richard W. Young, a pond-son pond-son of Brigham Young: Irene C . nylon, youngest daughter of William t h.vtn. and Wil'ard Richards, a son of W lllard Richards. The oldest man present, who made the trip entirely on foot, was Paul Hammer, SO vears of age, who said he hail climbed the' peak twenty times since 1S6I- |