Show I V V KNOW UTAH I By ALBERT F F. PHILIPS V Contour ot of c cOuntry in mountains mountains and coast coat change chango constantly duo to flood flood earthquake and Old atlases wh when n compared with the modern ones disclose great changes Similarity exists in contour of 01 country when thousands of miles sep separate rate those countries This was seen several se years ago when V the Denver Rio lIla Grande Crande railway Issued a folder which contained a map of ot Utah and the tho Holy Land The similarity was wonderful Pick Piel up UI a map of Utah then one of Palestine and you ou will see sec what V a striking resemblance there Is between the two t In the show window of the tho old book store on V East First South street is exhibited an atlas C carrying carryIng carry carry- ing the title American Atlas issued by Cary Lea of Philadelphia In 1827 Neither the wild west V nor nOLO the great American desert were Wele known at that time The Oquirrh range of mountains as also th the Sierra Nevada range are not shown on the the- double page map of tho the western hemisphere Lake gos gos Utah lake and Great Salt lake lalie are shown but butare V are aro transposed although Great Salt lake lalie is not given givena a a. name nafle The Provo river is shown as emptying into the Pacific ocean 4 The map of Mexico in the atlas shows the eastern eastern east east- em ern shore line of Great Salt lake Jake as touching Mexico whilo while a notation is is made mado that the western shore shote lino of the great Dead sea Is unknown It is a wonderful atlas for it shows how little the world lm knew w of tho west half of the United States This was just jUt a century ago The coast line bOL dary also shows many queer transpositions It might aught be said that tho the son of theman the theman man who charted the tho Pacific coast line the islands of the South sea and located the Antarctic continent was a resident of Salt Lake for many years The navigator was Commodore Charles of the United States navy and his son sun so long a resident V of Utah was was as Major l 1 Edmund dmund Wilkes The latter founded St. St Marl Marks hospital a arid add d was one of ot the company company com corn V pany which Mt Olivet Oll cemetery He lie died L several years ago One Ono docs does not however have to go 0 back to 19 1927 7 to ascertain the changes in the tho boundary lines of the country west of ot the Mississippi Our own state discloses this Brigham Young for the Latter-day Latter Saints took possession of the territory w west st of the Rocky mountains south of the Canadian boundary line ine l north of Mexico and the coast of the Pacific ocean and anda a convention held in 1843 1849 gave it the name of tl the e State of ot Deseret Several attempts were made to obtain statehood for Utah but without avail the tho first constitution boing being adopted in 1850 and officials of ot the proposed state o of Deseret being elected The general assembly assem- assem bl bly convened on Monday fonda July 2 1849 The ses- ses Ions of oC this assembly were concluded April 5 18 1851 l. l Meanwhile the territory of ot Utah had been created by congress and Brigham Young was appointed governor governor gov gov- governor gov- gov of the territory by President rd Milla-rd Fillmore Under th the provisions of oC the act creating the territory territory territory ter ter- ter- ter of Utah the first legislature of oC the territory met in Salt Lake on Monday September 22 1851 A A |