Show Wagons to Pass Sod Break Site It was on July 23 1847 that Wilham William Wil Wil- liam ham Carter camped on the bank of ofa a branch of City creek and turned the waters water out to soften the hard- hard baked desert after which he plowed the first furrow in Utah The next day President Wilford Woodruff of oC the L L. L D. D S. S church arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived and planted potatoes in the ploughed ground The water vater was then turned on them them the the first irrigating irrigating irrigating gating to be done in iii this hemisphere by an Anglo The site on which the irrigating and planting was done is today the northeast corner of State street and Broadway Thursday the wagon train entering the valley vaHey from Emigration Emigration Emigration Emi Emi- gration canyon reenacting the arrival arrival arrival ar ar- ar- ar rival of ot the pioneers will stop at this corner In hon of Carter In 1888 Carter waSp with witha a a. gold medal commemorating the first plowing The plow he used isnow Is Isnow Isnow now in the L. L D. D S. S church museum |