Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-04-20 | Page 22 | Know Utah

KNOW UT AR By ALBERT F F. F PHILIPS Pl Parle Parleys s 's canyon was opened to travel July 4 4 1850 under tho the name nam of the Golden Pa Pass s. s with Parley P P. Pratt as 31 proprietor tor It was was was' wasa a toll road and and tho charge chargo was 75 cents for each conveyance drawn by bi two animals and 10 c cents for each additional draught pack or t animal The first company to go through the thc can canyon on over the tho new highway was the Newark rangers angers of or Kendall c county Illinois The hl highway hway opened a wa way from W Wieber eber river to foal Lake LaM CIt City through the mountains Parley Tarley P. P Pratt was ordained an nn apostle on l February February ebru- ebru nr ary 21 1835 A year ear later ho visited C Canada nada and andIn andin andin In in Toronto established a branch of tho the church The branch in Toronto Is ii now known as the tho Canadian mission and is headed by Charles If H. Hart Pratt was on mission work 11 in iii England for some time lie formulated a constitution was on one o of th the persons who for br the state state- of or Deseret and was a a. member of the general assembly of the tue provisional state When the thc territory of Utah was created he was elected a member of the territorial senate e and officiated tedas as chaplain in the lower house when the legislature legislature legis legis- lature convened in Fillmore lie tater later eng engaged ged In missionary nary work ork in the thc eastern and southeastern states stales and in Ma May 1857 while in Arkans Arkansas Arkan Arkan- s sas s s. s was killed S SIn In July 1850 the general assembly bt of r the provisional provisional provisional pro pro- visional state o of Des Deseret ret met in special fe session slon and an ordinance taxing tho sate sale of liquor at the rate of 50 per cent ad v is was as passed An ordinance regulating the manufacture and and salo of liquor was passed by the We Deseret legislature on l February 12 18 1831 1851 l providing That when the governor s shall hall de deem tn it ex expedient edle t to have ardent spirits manufactured within this state he ma may grant a license to some perS per- per S ln or or persons to make malte and vend the tile sam amk and Im Impose Impose Im- Im pose paM such restrictions thereon as ho he ma may deem After the territory o of Utah was created tho the liquor question again bobbed up and on February 5 1852 the lie legislature cr created the office of territorial Inspector inspector tor tor- of liquors who was to bo Io o appointed by bythe bythe bythe the governor It was wits provided also that all liquors manufactured liT in or imported by the territory should be Inspected inspect d and that the Sykes hydrometer and scale adopted by the British board of excise July 2 2 1816 be used In proving spirits in the territory The third third anniversary of the arrival of the pioneers plo pio neets In Great Gleat Salt Lake valley V vas s celebrated In Salt Lake City with more more than usual pomp and cere cere- monies monie The rhe oration of the thc day was delivered by Willard Richards There was a great gleat parade headed by a brass brals band seated on a made for fol forthe forthe the occasion The wagon was 9 feet wide wido and 29 feet long and aad was drawn by fourteen horses horsE N How the Saints from the old world were flocking to the new ZIon n II in the mountains was expressed by Apostle Orson Hyde who on August 15 IS 1850 in informed informed in- in formed the authorities of the church that when he ho left Kan there were wagons with Immigrants I grants for Salt Lake LaIe City waiting to start I