Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-25 | Page 6 | Know Utah

t. t NOW KNOW UT UTAH Hi By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS Apostle Parley P. P Pratt was regarded as ns a 0 truthful truthful truth truthful truth truth- ful man as h he was wa the right hand man of the pioneer pioneer pio plo neer leader He was likewise known ns an expert fisherman otherwise some of or his fish stories storIe would have had flad to be taken with several grains of allow allow- ance In a letter under date of or July 8 8 1849 he de- de tells tails a visit made to Utah Ut-ah lake and this Is what he had to say about that beautiful sheet of water I UI 1 was at Utah lake last week and of all the fisheries fisheries fisheries fish fish- eries I ever saw V 1 that exceeds all I 1 saw thousands thousands' of offish offish offish fish caught by hand both by Indians and whites They would simply put their hand In the stream and throw them out as fast a. a as they could pick them up I could buy a hundred which wo would each weigh a 0 pound for fol a plc piece pIcc e of tobacco as large as my finger linger Five thousand barrels of fish ish could be secured there annually just as s well as less The lake at that date was at a low ebb as it is now S 'S S C In his letter Apostle Pratt writes his brother Orson who was in England on a a mission pointing out what the country now known as Utah contained and what could b bs ba done in the territory He pointed out that as a grazing country there w was no equal area on ott the globe a statement which has been verified many times and that the region about Zion would support millions of cattle and sheep s1 He pointed out that the best foundation for 3 a living in the territory territory terri terri- tory would be a herd of young heifers driven from the states or a drove of ot sheep Demand for bult butter r cheese milk and beef he declared was greater than the supply S S SOn On th the migration to tho the Pacific slope he lie sa says s 's the number of seekers after gold would exceed persons during the year and this tIus traffic would center in the Salt Lake valley vaney which would mean that blacksmiths and pack saddlers would be In demand as also aiso provisions S S S Of the Salt Lake valley he lie wrote The emigrants after crossing the great prairie wilderness wilderness' for a thousand miles mUes where nothing is seen like civilization or cultivation this spot suddenly bursts into view upon their astonished vision like a paradise in the midst of the desert So great is the effect that many of them burst in an ecstasy y of admiration on emerging from the canyon and gainIng gainIng gaining gain- gain Ing a fi first t view vie of our town and its fields and gardens 5 S Some shed hed tears some shout some dance and skip for Joy and all doubtless feel reel the spirit of at the place resting upon them with Its Joyousness and heavenly influence bearing witness that here live lve the Industrious the industrious the free fre the free the Intelligent and the good In truth our town now now presents a plateau of or several square miles mUes dotted with houses and every foot of it except the broad and pleasant nt streets enclosed and under tinder cultivation Fields of or yellow jellow wheat are i- i t ig waving in thc the breeze while corn o oats ts flax and garden truck fill the vacuum and extend as far in every direction as the eye can distinguish objects to sa say nothing of the one field containing 1000 acres fenced and cultivated d. d S S S SWe We feel as if Ir we are in the middle of ot the world and in as good a place to preach the gospel to all the world as can be found