Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-30 | Page 9 | Know Utah

c UTAH By ALBERT F. F jJ Students of history are willing willing- to concede now that Brigham Young was an builder co- co Importance rn He lie the In fri which h we Jive Tie Thc pioneer paid after he ho arid t his band I had d met the famous frontiersman Jim Bridget Bridget- to going bri the Salt I kp vaHey MrY Mr Y ung I would give gha a thousand dollars If I knew an anThe n wr ot corn could be ripened lii hi th great basin baIn The he reply i was a eighteen months arid L will you many bf f them thern Jh In L recent address de de- z dover over the tho by hs Daughter S Young Gates ateon on tho life father she this statement made mado by by- him We camo caine moun- moun thins because had no other other- to go We Wi had to th l ai o our oth i h possessions on on Urn fer fertile fer- fer tile lands lands' to u t our dwelling in th desert ori oit barren sterile plains amid lofty iott rugged mountains N None ne dared come herp to to lIv until we camo canio here now w find it to be the world f the flie r us is In tiis' tiis s' s address sue slip ead said said- Brigham that the in Ia the tho Rocky Rocki mouri moun tans tans' must t b irrigated and nd his his' private Journal as' as ts proves that ho was considering irrigation in ln Nauvoo in Winter Q ar- ar r 4 S Speaking of the construction of first lon tion d jn of the pioneers Mrs Gates Catesi said Young Toung lay sick In Echo canyon three days reaching tb Io decided to send Orson men with him tile Great Salt Lake Jake valley and later he sent Snow on horseback to plant valley th i rth Brig Brig- hm no tream at water Plant your seeds there Throw y up a dam dath damn in n of ground arid then you bu can potatoes potatoe and other Mrs Gates GateI then said This conversation was hk- hk President years ers after and th i very iVery spot vh ere ere- tho first irrigating ditch was made was pointed out as az stood at Eagle Gate It was b ut hrco blocks down do State street Thus Brigham Toung pioneered AngIo Anglo and be became ame founder of the th system S nov used all all allover over the earth S n 5 Mrs Gates then pointed out that the Stars arid and oven Ensign peak two days days' after her ier father arrived in the tho valley and quoted the camp historian Woodruff afterwards President of the as church saying Two days later July 26 6 Ensign p was ascended rind named b by and and anda a party of explorers a. a i ble e sv was s erected Elder Ilder Woodruff being the first to reach the sum sum- hum hum- peak and antt hero we unfurled flag 1 it will th the then entered by the th saints saints' was was' Mexican soil and taken aken possession by the Mormon battalion and pioneers plo pio acers as us' us i future i great geat commonwealth to to- the th credit and honor of States A is tern pie site was marked b by Brigham You Young a was laid aid out by him exactly ns na l i stands today and adJoining ad- ad Joining canyons and valleys were explored and anda a fort bunt built S 5 What was accomplished by BrIgham mr ng his crowded life Is pointed out to be ho the th states mils factories mines farms arms schools l meeting tto houses ses find And temples thirty years of his his- crowded life to accomplish o Look around oun you yon and Judge H He founded in towns towns' twenty nine Idaho five in Nevada and t to vo In Wyoming lag ng twenty stakes i or bf and set in operation yb t mission fields v t- t