Show ENTERTAINING FACTS IN KNOW KNO UTAH BOOKLET Everyone in State Urged to I Learn History Pamphlet Ready I I Columbus first set foot on the North American continent in 1492 Every schoolboy can furnish that information without the slightest I h hesitancy but how many Salt Lakers and know that a white man first trudged his weary way Into Salt Lake valley alley In 1825 How many know that his name was Entinne Provost How many know that Ogden was built on what was once a Do Spanish land grant or that Provo is named after a famous French Canadian trapper Few native natI sons know these facts yet they are a 0 part of the history that made Utah one of the thriving empires of the west BOOKLET READY And if the leaders of the Know Your Salt Lake and Utah campaign campaign campaign cam cam- have their way such interesting inter inter- esting facts will be on the tip Up of every Utahn's tongue by May 15 15 when the educational venture closes A wealth of Informative material of this kind is incorporated in a booklet Facts About Utah of which were ready for distribution distribution distribution dis dis- dis- dis in and out of the state Friday Copies arc are available at all railroad stations hotels and will be mailed outside the state by local business business busi busl- ness firms Among other data Inthe inthe In Inthe the pamphlet relative to the continued on Pace Twenty live ENTERTAINING f ACTS IN KNOW W UTAH B BOOKLET KlET Continued from Pa Pace e Fifteen ical leal development de of the city and state are arc the following Salt La Lake e was founded July 24 4 1847 by Brigham Young and a 3 party of Mormon pioneers The only monument to bird life Ufe in the world is the Seagull monument monument monument ment in the Temple square square which was Ras built bunt by the Mormons The seagulls destroyed a horde of crickets which threatened ned to ruin the pioneers' pioneers crops ISSUED GOLD COINS Gold coins were minted by the early settlers shortly after the Cal- Cal gold rush The old mint was located where the L L. L D D. S S. S church n administration building now stands Paper mone money called tithing script was issued by the Mormons In 1861 am ham Young built a paper mill at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood Cot- Cot canyon The ruins of this old landmark have been converted Into a 3 charming club which is open to the public The plot of oC land upon which the Deseret National bank now stands was the site of the first irrigation project by Saxons Anglo-Saxons in the new world A pony express station once stood on the plot of or land now occupied by the Tribune-Telegram Tribune building Fred E E. E Hamlin vice chairman of oC the Know Your Salt Lake and Utah campaign reported Friday that the essay contest bein being conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted in the public schools in connection connection con con- with the drive is progressing progressing progressIng progress progress- ing by leaps and bounds Representatives Representatives of twenty-eight twenty women's clubs are arc handling this project |