Show I NOW UTAH I By ALBERT P. P PHILIPS Prior to the beginning ot of the mar march h from Winter Quarters Quarte across tho plains paIn matters which had looked like Uko I great obstacles were reduced when The spring came On New Net Year Yeara day dar 1847 th the tho tempera temperature lure dropped t to 8 S degrees M below zero uro and lUul later In the month fell tell still lower Jower AVith tb the advent ent of spring and the warming of ot the weather tie tiie emigrants cero vero anxious to get started for tor the tho west Teet The Tho people ought amusement in dancing and in these festivities the president of ot the church joined lie ile showed the people just what hat he m meant nt when he told them that he would rould lend kd the dance At one of ot the dancing parties according to the history of ot tho ho Mormon onnon leader it Is la said he The knelt down dom and arnt prayed to GodIn God GodIn In behalf of the meeting and then he dedicated the meeting and the house bOUM to the Ix Jord rd My Iy feeling he declared is dance all night If It you ou desire to do fo 0 On the tho floor noor were It is Mid said many spectacled denies damN some of at them nearly years old Late In February 1847 18 there was s an indoor picnic at which oo o of 01 the poor were given ghen a te feast st st. When It It had been tn decided that a a. pioneer company company com corn pany should be selected to inaugurate the move more to the promised premised land early In April a call was made mado for volunteers In April a company with Brigham Young as a. lieutenant general Stephen Markham ool TOnel nel end md John Paek major with fourteen cap cap- thina was waa formed There were lU persons In In the caravan including three women yom en wives es dt cf Brigham and Lorenzo Young and Hebel C. C Kimball In the caravan caravan were seventy three wagons tho the majority loaded with ith grain and farming Implements Implement the other wagons being filled with provisions pro sufficient to last for tor a round trip if It that were deemed necessary Tho The trek was started April 14 H. 5 In the biography of ot Geor George e A. A Smith it is declared declared de de- dared that on tho the Journey across tho plains and in exploring tho the region about Great Salt Lake he ho walked 1700 1100 miles and rodo miles on horseback that ho he had twenty five pounds of oC flour lour whIch ho housed housed used by the cupful for tor those who were ill that for six weeks ho was without bread breed as were the others in the company and that they lived lI upon buffalo meat and other wild game same S S SIn In the book with tho the title of or a Pioneer Woman Sirs Mrs Jr Clara Decker Young speaks of ot the distress sho she suffered on leaving Winter where hero there were fo so many people and life liCe so social but that when she reached her tI final al destination destination destination desti desti- nation she was as satisfied It did not look so dreary to me as it did to the theother other two ladles for they were terribly disappointed because there were no notrees notrees trees a and to them thero was a n. sensation of or desoI desolation desolation deso deso- I lation and loneliness she said S S S Lorenzo Young in describing his first view v of ot th the Salt Lake valley valle In his Journal wrote that the outlook was most disheartening There was not a agreen agreen green thing in sight eight On tho the other hand Brigham Young YounS' refers In his memoirs to the willows and wild ros ross roses roses s growing thickly on the two branches of or City Creek canyon The ground was covered with giant black back crickets which the Indians were gathering for tor food tood S |