Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-22 | Page 4 | Know Utah

KNOW UTAH By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS I The gold fever in California does not bother any anyone anyone anyone one in ill Utah wrote Parley P. P Pratt In 1849 Gold is 18 almost as plentiful as stones in California mountains he continued The climate in the Salt Lake valley is isso is 18 isso so healthy and L ti WM air so pure that the gold fever troubles none but transients The inhabitants who have become acclimated in Utah seldom if iC ever feel even tn the of or that raging racIng disease which has carried off oU so many and turned the brain of so 50 many others In the states and nations of the world S S S Writing from Cambridge where he was engaged in fn the n mission field Apostle Apostle Wiford Woodruff October October October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober 13 1849 1649 enclosed with his letter a copy of the New York Herald of or the same date in which he cites what the newspapers of the country had to say sar about Mormonism The world said the apostle has at last awakened from a n. deep sleep and are as much astonished as though they were rocked by an earthQuake earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake by merely catching one short view of Mormonism Mormonism Mormonism Mor Mor- monism which they supposed was dead and buried S S S Then he says The people turn him their heads toward toward to- to ward waid the west and find that Mormonism has risen in inthe inthe inthe the state of Deseret It is related that the Mormons had organized a slate state government elected their governor gov gov- Brigham Young and two delegates to ro congress A. A W W. W Babbitt and John M. M l. l They went to ro Washington with a petition asking to be admitted d to the union of at states T S The emigrants continued to flock to Zion en route to California the number reaching Salt Lake being more than exclusive of the Mormons while the animals reached When was writing there were cre wagons helpless b between tween South Pass and Fort Hall their t teams having been drowned in crossing streams or because of lack of grass hundreds were ere d dying daily dally the roads being blocked with dead and dying men and b beasts ts S S S SHow How singular Is It it says the letter that the people people peo pee pIe of the states should have driven so 50 many thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of the Saints into the wilderness and then thousands of those same people who had driven them out so 50 soon to call upon the poor exiled Saints to save them from starvation and death An appeal for help from Fort Hall had Just been made by the emi emi- grants S U S Another e. e extract tract from a R. letter tetter of or the first presIdency presidency pros pros- dency of the L. L D. D S. S church was In the let letter letter let let- ter to Apostle Woodruff in which it was pointed out that the- the harvest was under way and that unless the community was swamped with en route to California the yield from the harvest would be ample for the year It was added One thing is certain tam tain all the necessary products of at the earth for the sustenance of ot man can be raised