Show FIRST PLOWING SCENE DEPICTED William Carter w was s plowing ing again Thursday morning at State street and Broadway He had come down Into the valey valley valley val- val ley ey of the Great Salt lake and stopped his wagon on tho the bank of ot a branch of City creek Ho unloaded his ils plow and hitched his weary trail-weary team earn to it and tried to sink it in inho inthe ho tho sun baked soil soU of ot the desert basin lasin But the team could not pull the he share into a furrow because be ause of the hard hardness ess of the ground William Carter C took a shovel and cut an opening in the creek bank letting the water run ov over r the ground When the ground had been thoroughly soaked conked he clicked to his team eam AI and turned the furrow which launched the tho great intermountain IntermountaIn intermountain inter- inter mountain agricultural empire When on the following day day President dent Wilford Woodruff planted potatoes potatoes potatoes po po- In the plowed earth William Wllliam Carter again turned the creek water over it the first irrigation tobe to tobe toe be e done by an Anglo Saxon in the western hemisphere This Thursday morning 89 years lAter ater two grandsons of William Carter turned a furrow with the old plow in the same John Pix ton and E E. E A. A Carter paid honor to their grandsire in this way before a crowd that had shortly before reenacted reenacted reenacted re- re enacted the entrance of the Mormons Mormons Mormons Mor Mor- mons Into the valley Andrew Jensen assistant historian historIan historian histo histo- rian of at the L. L D. D S S. church told of William Carters Carter's irrigating irrigating- in a 8 short address Herbert HerbertS S. S Auerbach Auer- Auer bach bath civic and busi business ess le leader der th then n presented a plaque which will be placed on the site when a building is erected there It will recall William William Wil Wll- Wllliam liam Carter to future futuro generations who pass the place |