| Show I TIIEMOTlVE1UDTlIE WORK I They carro troy strove troy conquered Why tho Sa rt woro successful Colonization Treatment of tho Indians Irrigation t tFb STRANGr I I et almot I IInhe rsa I I accompan ji ime n t 0 f I l the ad anceofan I Er i people into I n new Land and the subsequ settlement set-tlement thereof is the belief on that I peoples part of an existing league between Ihcmselves and the powers of Heaven The inspiring hopes of the children of Jacob during their ycarsol wandering rested on the confidence that their leader w is un dir the immediate direction of tin God of their fathers Eneis as we read in ancient lore escaping the i flames of burning Troy endured the I hardships of a journey over troubled seas and through strange lands Urong in Ins reliance on the goddess Venus help and the promise that lit should at last settle in peace with his followers on the Hesperian shore Dido fled from the usurping inur derer ol her husband and under the befriending guardiinslnp of Juno founded the Tunic city of Carthage noon to become the queen of the Mediterranean In later times the Saracens believing that Allah had I enlisted them in Ins cause rose from I scattered bands of petty robbers to a great nation and in a mighty wave urgeil i from their far eastern home of Hercules even lo the pillars cules and having overcome the warlike Goths setlld down in the rich land of Spain The Pilgrims uncompromising in their devotion to what they believed the truth and animated by an quench aWe faith m their Maker left homes and country to voyage over strmge waters to a stringer land inhabited only by creatures as they honestly i believed ol the devil and with no oilier inducements than the liberty of worshiping God in their own way And this nineteenth century can furnislia parallel to all thisa case wherein implicit fulh un fhgging zed and magnitude of ac conplishnitnt were equalled if not Mirpisscd It I is the I march of our Pioneers over half a comment of trackless plains to a desert home the changing of desolate w isles to fruitful fields anil the building up I ota ot-a treat commonwealth In celebrating then today the fiftieth anniversary ol the arrival of the Pioneers in these valleys it is approprnte not onh that we should recall some of their early experiences exper-iences but also thAt w e should keep in mind the prime motive of their coming and the prevailing spirit ol their plan of coloni ration for these it has been which have proved the most potent forces in shaping the course of their history bound together The settlers bv Ihe of Utah lies of were i sacred brotherhood It was a common com-mon belief tint led them so fir beyond be-yond the western borders of civilization civiliza-tion It was the hope that here they could build homes anei live in peace that caused them to erect houses and take possession of the hnd It was through persevering I t nJJb Ii fs zeal wise Iciderslnp and boundless faith in the outcome of it ill that their effarts have been so successful The victory they have won is i never the reward of the cowardly the faint hearted and the futlilcss 1 ifly yeirs ago today their advance vance guard a little bind of one hundred and forty eijjit souls found themselves at the end of their wearisome weari-some journey Almost their fir > tact t-act after the dcdicition of the spot was lo plant a crop from which they I hoped to gather a harvest that would support them and the others whom they expected soon lo arrive during the coming winter Exploring plltie were also formed and journeys were taken to the like to the canyons and to other parts of the region for the purpo > e ol learning what the resources re-sources of the country were President Presi-dent Brifjiam Young the dauntless leader enfeebled In body by sickness sick-ness though retaining all his incut il vigor pined in the work anil Ins i wholesome advice i mil 1 wise i direction were to his followers whit a good fither words are to a child Ills first coninnnd lo them on re idling the valley was tint they should keep the Sabbath day huly and be nidus trious He soon chost the siejit of the Icmplt and planned the city and under his direction the broad refill I streets and square blocks were laid out and ihe plan of apportioning t the lt lt I llp n11 L 1 nd instituted I ach should hive his plot to cultivate and the leuler hid down with firmness the law th it no per < nn should be uie Work md work done would rtehim the I id nnd bring pro pcntv ind he i all as other leaders ol men Inve tern that imlu iry in n i people as well as in in millvu nl u a In id mental pi I of elnrucer lly his en r v v I 11 ice HI b1 r I 1 1 h y Ir 1 1 011 d I I I n 1 II lulvlI 1 < II hnn I Less than a week after the formal entrance of the Pioneers to the valley an addition wis mule to ihe I company by the appear mce of Captain Junes Drown with Ins division ot the Mormjn Hallilion and I Mississippi Saints who traveled the later pirt l of the journey with them here 1 were about 200111 ill and they brought Co vv igons too horses mil mules and 300 oxen The meeting I between the newcomers and their lends who hid preceded them vv is a joyful one The entrance to the valley was made like a triumph mircli with imrlnl music plying The stiy ol the Hitnlion men though at first thought to be merely temporary proved to be perm incut since their term of service hid expired ex-pired They creeled a bower on the Temple square lo be Used lor meetings and soon after joined ill 1 building a slockade known later as the Old Fort lo protect the people from savages md wild inmiils md to furnish some sort of shelter ill the log and adobe houses lor the Saints during the winter fhe 1 Old I 011 from lint time on beciine the home of the people until it w is deemed safe and expedient for each funny lo seltle Itsell on oat of the lots of land which had previously been distributed The I greatest anxiety was felt b the S nuts to get in crops and they con inucd brt iking up the md 1 until un-til when the last plowing wis done on August gth eightthree acres had been made ready for pi lilting Almost none of the crops pi mtcd matured however only a few seedling seed-ling potatoes being g irnered and theo the-o were compelled to relv h isinfJ 1 i on what provisions they had with them and what other companies brought in subsequently As August beg in to draw to a close President Young and the Apos ties with him deemed it ulvisible to return to the States to superintend the cmierition of the following season After thoroughly orgimzmg the people who were to rein nn and giving them good counsel regirdmg the conduct of their affms the Apostles with a large compiny mill m-ill one hundred and eight men setout set-out for Winter Quarters on August s6th This was the second compiny I to leave the v illcy for the mam body of the Saints seventy one men mostly members of the Ihtldioi having dcpirted under the direetion I of Tunis Rlppleee and Shadrich Round just ten days before One reason for druung oil so many men w is th it the were needed by their imihes I it Winter Q nrters mother doubtless was tint their going decreased de-creased con > iderabl the number among whom the scanty ritions were to bo dividfd that winter The return of the Apostles and their party was not Jevoul ol incident inci-dent though no serious aceidems occurred An exciting aflra though i bloodless one between a thieving bind of Sioux took place during the journey About two hundred Indians restrained from impeding the horses made a charge on the cani > President Woodruff who was acting as guard sounded the a irm and with some others made a daring counter charge Fins disconcerted the Indiim md they Instil letreated They soon returned but pe iceably this tune tin fil tdl r md making i prolfcr of friendship invited President Young and the Apostles to their villages some miles away Heber C Kmibdl and others went and smoked the pipe of peace with the sav iges Prc sident I Kimbill not onl secured safely from further molestations but al o succeeded bv his courtesy and kindness kind-ness in recoveringm my horses tint had been stolen from ins own and other comp lines I The policy of treating the Indi ms is worthy of being made allies and even friends and companions WIS followed not only uy President Kimball Kim-ball but by the Snnts genrill I President Brigham Young insisted always that the people feed their sav ILC neighbors md thus avoid fighting them He re ihzed tint it would be most imprudent to assume hostile attitude md I the result Ias tint though some battles w ere fought when ill other me ins filled to prevent pre-vent the red men from steahrg cat lie and killing settlers the Indiins and 1 the Saints were dmost ahvavs it peace The doctrine i of the I Church night that the Indians had evolve 1 from a higher state from a net related to our own The purpose pur-pose of the S lints was to turn the tide of tint evolution and give it in upward course Delore the end 1 of October all 01 the immigrants of 47 had come Fnur I complines > from Winter Quir ters con isiing ot one th nitind lue hundred per < ns in ill re idled the I vilkv eulv in the fill and liter apt a-pt if the Hitnlum whieh had been I I time d at the ep ritioi ol die torm1 I I truce in Cllon1 I arrived 1 i i i u > id s ipplv ol proi siotis 111 I U I ioilie pirt of the B I n Icnllted l in Uliu run over wuiier and l some ol the member became connected with the discovery discov-ery ol gold at Sutler mill The Saints who were now in the valley beg in active prcpir mom for winter They were thorough or ganied and the gre licit s tem prc vuledin ill their work Lach family mule every effort to build a house for itself md ill 1 houses were joined i rtr et oereJ hOld h lo ifford t mutual protection On tht Old Fort I sllIlfe I the adjoining houses formed a eommuoiH nail on one entire side and a hhh stock ide co nplets d I the enelosurc The houes were poor ml UIILOIII fortable the fool wis very scarce and the people did not know wh it a full me d menu but ill slmed dike here I were many pour peril ipj but there were it kIst no rich Rations I were divided eqiilly regirdless of position am l a communism cite tint is without pirillel The man ol it m i men nice IIY 1 in lha ze il of thoe who upheld it and 1 their willingness will-ingness suffer ill lor their ftilh I Afier winter closed in not much t Illh active turk could be done noJ Just is soon is spring opcnc I now ever Ihi I people irmed out from their cell like homes md begin to ploiv tle hnd md sow There were neirly two th msand in the v illev now and so diligently did 1 the work limbs fore the pring pissed IWtV they had brought over five thousand 1 acre under cultivation From 1 the moment President Young cist his inspired gire over the site of Silt llke I Cit ml the visti of idjoinmg lake river and valley this pi ice became the center I of the commonweilth he established Hut out from the mother colony the original hive of Deserct other svarms were to jo and with the help of the Great Apiarist and in diistry tint proved them worthy ol their motto settle md begin the gathering of the honey with which this lanll 1 of promise was to flow Much of the surrounding country h id been explored and found fertile ml favorible for prizing stockMen I stock-Men began moving awiv with their fimihes ind besides caring lor their I cattle also busily cngiijed them elves I m tilling the soil Weber county had rowing crops in the spring of the second ear The region lying south lined after C ipt Davis also assumed importance first on account ac-count of its pasturage and later through its iertiht Utih and Fooele counties were rapidly occupied oc-cupied and lirther south ind west Sanpete and Juab counties were settled riiose who thus withdrew from the in un pirt ol the people m no sense did so with the idei tint they woulJ be independent md that their interests were different from the 111 terests of those they left It was m accordance with the phn 01 their leuler md the counsel he give that they departed and there was just is doe community of feeling ifter their separation as belore When hull ins grew mischievous the stronger colony sent aid to the weikerones md the outlaying settlements set-tlements joined to help when the central one was end ingered Distance Dis-tance m no wIY tended to weaken the religious bonds uniting them And so It was tint the leaders of the people felt sale in advising them to scatter out They knew tint conviction IIS so deep and the common com-mon motive so strong that it mattered not whether the people had removed a hundred miles northn ird or three hundred miles to the south whether they had passed even beond the limits of the nation and were living on Mexican or Cinadian territory their filth was not to be undermined by location nor their organization by eircumstance Under ill conditions the would be Saints still Since theie was nothing to be feared from colonuition there was evidently much to be gamed It was not h ird to see even if inspiration inspira-tion be cast aside that this land WIS not aH is to remain undesirable It w is nccessaiy that the people take possession while it was et unoccupied unoccu-pied The holding of inheritances las as sacred imong them as among the ancient Israditcs and the eirly location upon whit they could call their own and leave to their children and children children tIts a nitural desire In rift ind independence would be developed to a greater extent ex-tent in nun smill communities thin in one 1 irge one md greater opportunities oppor-tunities would be given the people of governing themselves Uesides this thousands in this countr and m Europe were turning their tlces westward to cast in their lot with the Saints At no tune did the leldeu deem circumstances so hard that men could not be spared to go forth and preich and as long as the Elders II ere awa a eontinuolls streaniofirinngrition llo ved into the alleys As the pioneers spread out over the hnd their places were filled b those who thus cime m md many of them in turn followed to the frontier The gathering inule the scattering possible or rather proved nourishment for the heillhy growth of the people as it extended over the hnd For I a long time the occupation of the people was necessarily ilmost solely agriculture They I cunt in it i ly from the firming elasses allli I so it was natural for them to beiiii cult atmg the soil lere I they found however tint old methods must be elnnged if erops were raised The hnd was burned by the sun and would suit un out the hardy sige I The ur w is extremely dr and rams t cime so infreiuttuly that they could not be counted on to afford the ncccs sary moisture From the sides of I thejmount nns streams of water flow cd abundantly but these watered only small areas dong their edges Down through the valley a river wound its I w ly but the lowuuh along it were mostly marsh It did not tike long however for the people to adopt the simplest possible solution of the difficulty They put dams in the streaim making them overflow and then directed the water upon the planted gioumh I And with this rude beginning was instituted the system of irrigation tint system which made it possible for the people here to survive and I vv Inch I i lei n proving perhaps the I greatest instrument m the hands of enterprise in the rcdinuttoi of tho An rican deiert The I tiny treams running only a few rods from the side of the natural bed belore they were drunk in hy the thirsty cirth hive swelled to artifici channels of the size of nv ers I Over the State has been spread a network of cm ds niea > urinj together thousin Is of miles in length The I best ol engineering skill is being cm I plocdm constructing reservoirs to consume the l surplus n itcr 1 illy i I eeeUi JI ti I ears have seen irrigation piss from I an unknown subject md unused ivstem to a pricticil science rim ud to indLlitry 1 has mi le the desert ihospitible pi let ind has < 1rlwn from it suitcnanee for hun reds thousands The uceeH in igi i rculture msed by it brought the time at hs when it wis safe to turn put of the cnerg ol the people to mm mg md I soon tht prospector s trail f iN I ctt was on ever hill md the treasures ol the earth were being drawn forth What h id been Hidden now beg m to be unfolded and men ciuejit glimpses of the riches tint glistened Iron the mouiunii side which President Young had sud would be diselosed Activity in milling and agriculture brought railroids and mule room for more extended industries Ln terprises were instituted sehools and universities built up greiter it tention given to literiture and the arts and a continual progression riide socially and economically If tins brief retrospective survey of our lues in these mountain vII les serves its purpose it will show much that we cm rightly feel proud ol Where before our people came were sagebrush deserts and grassless pi mis are now productive fields and fruitful orchards Wlnre were rude vvigvv mis of roving Indians I ire now thriving towns of a civilized people The Pioneers were scpiritcd from the culture of the List by more than a thousand miles of mount uns md plains This h ilf centur of pro cress has brought us their children into almost instant touch with that culture Indeed the highest standards stand-ards of the T ist are now being ully realized i it home especially m our td id mI1eW rtei largest cities In the Jbtite as a I whole there is a higher percentie m school attendance and a lower percentage per-centage ol illiterates linn in the State of Massachusetts the home of eastern culture This prosperity achieved as it has been from a forbidding soil by men wlio c only capitd wis toil and wise leadership is some thing I we can naturilly feel pride in Hut our contemplation should not be I so self satisfying as to blind us to the I hct that our highest possibilities b no means have been realized as yet Those s stems w Inch were successfully success-fully employed in turning Utah from an arid desert into a rich farming region should be kept in mind and where possible used in the further development ol the State Sober industry a virtue which liriLjiini I I Young placed 1 so high is no less trrI 1th Ii necessir now than formerly Ihe I ill kept firms and pest ridden orchards too frequently seen nowadays now-adays are results of the lack of it The principle ot cooperation can be applied with profit nov as well as in early days in making irrigation ditches ditch-es md procuring firm machinery A failure to observe the true spirit of Christian love and union is causing caus-ing quarrels among neighbors re girding irrigation privileges and heivy burdens ol debt for machinery tint could just as well be owned jointly Our homes toda do not alwaS show the best evidences of thrift and good taste our people filling into contentment with the solid comforts of life too often re hnquish the craving for higher things The past fifty years have made only a rough outline ol the sketch of what our commonweilth is to be the next fiCty ears should fill up that outline ind do something on the details As Utah stands before the world today an object lesson of industry so at the end of the approaching half century it should stand before the world as an exam le of the achievement of economic independence broad cul lure and a social bY5tel11 as superior to our own as our national prosperity i b i Ot lii h ity is beond the l condition of the men and women who inspired by high motives endured hunger cold and bitter hardships in their efforts ef-forts to build these homes where men could hbor in peace serve God and be happy |
