Show t t = HOME UTAH OUR ISj I rlIA e 7 I d fora thee we awehers d y yl > wuhRJmgh hl 7h ferules II 1 yl reinvent l nC jy thouanl > the I vent sul rivers i w ith iFr likes anlc emcee nC uaprpar mu 1 ° c t with ercrlasnr dow a tar main j rlnsixif In rare and 1 mountain dull dam Fir dome nv I u eath j Iuor 1 longing II an Utah acurb nfl I I out s cries I ao fId of tb J firmer dys in and canyon ye bkeoauts lmJn our Ir To thee 100 r1 har n dc us I yI Ilru AI our mother bother S111 or b-other fitly meaner Leobrth A lu it deserts lees I sir bien r I Aisles j them flu fi kew her 111 f uoil their batdU sh hi the r I 11 b and r r > tnd all o tiles wa lore 11 w91 toy Ill 01 wrttth C b thy air and nccam and hIIOp halth Bnathlrg be dl ss I 1000 II ANDERSON TINNY TO TIII WORLD ar Written by President Wil uu led Woodruff at the t reauest t of 11 I the New York World T11E folio ung letter VMS written RN to the New York World by RNPresident Wilford Woodruff t L1 response to a request from aI lournal received July 1St and tip wed 10 the issue of the New lotIt World lor Sunday july II So 7 1 SoU was one of the original Pioneers I entered Salt Lake valley on the 1th of July 1847 I was born Mitch t 1807 in farmington now old Avon Hartford I county Conn lien I therefore ninety years of age jBngham Young entered Salt Lake MY in my carriage He was sick and had been for several days ud my carriage was the only one ill a bed m its it-s When we arrived it the spot s6Fre it e could hive a good view ol d IKU ley he wished me to turn the arrive I which I did so that he toalJ look Milhout obstruction when d F door was opened on the side g Mir gazing on the valley for a while let d That will do drive on n m ijisthe place I have seen this nty before in vision fA few ol the Pioneers had gone 1 ahead and cut a road through a going asp grove and after reach J X ag the alley commenced to break ground but it was so very dry and hi pushed that it could not be plowed he h nfl it vias watered 1 had in my d rugs one bushel of potatoes and hid determined that I would not cat a ordnnk until those potatoes were Ii M ted 1 in the mil With some hi SBtance I planted those potatoes and lbev with some others that had been brought along were the td b g pmnp ol the potato crop in Utah > hich afterwards became erEtmaus er a J HJj sere on Mexican soil but we YaiTit the Amencan flag which 500 alter Picked men wire defending she x I liar unit Mexico We went a0 t Cork plot at on once three and sides i enclosed with i a ten ten f = adobe sail forming the remain g de with log chins fins was t I protection runt Indians We Proceeded to dig ditches and out water from a small moun stream to Irrigate the > 1rched I parched l thirsty sod Star It I nvthnlc else wa grow lpn the Auld h l 1brush and pC i ss hardly J while mans Ie 1I11111n thuutlld t miles of us PLerideti BntllIIIl Young vi cut to soh other layout Salt Ct City I I in the work all > our un Owen and com lie laid It I u1 hng to his aq wuh tl I I met 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° Chu I r 1 Il I II I t a 0 O O a oo ° n n vr a I t yam Lc xt EFltjl ti v a eel fIt J 1 i j i O era On n ° a n n n 0 u 0 0 r O I f-It sao t1q r I i A O u n On Or l nO n fi 000 1 0 I u 11 I l it I I n a ° ty0 o o n u n 0 o r no ° 00 n rV I rt 1301 of on no u y nO00 n n opoane tnoro C I i UnC7 OU0r9a ° aOpOV CS r if11I lots rUa > PV r ° v Oact 0 > aCO IiUI II Q cyap ntaoo nt o E 0 ° pODQ < gg noa f < o he nn dl ° u p oJRog t O ° gg p0 r uO r 1 I hq tl l 0 t or otn QoooouQ OU o of w C o fC JJ = t 0 1 I n Ir IVlns oJ V doJJ j C i rr > r > JLUDITor d VJ f > PiJSURE son 6 jJ 1 f th Th GMP1GfJl Jj sa = iY JAKRsCrnpMIN a1trn foo vucat C C i those > 01 STATE OFFICERS Propl 1 Irtn I S ter t i of and a territorial form of government I desire that the principles of liberty for which my ancestors fought shall i prevail not only in Utah but throughout through-out this broad continent I nm n full believer ill the divine mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith I heard him ny before a large 1 assemblage as-semblage ill Illinois tint if lie were the emperor of the world and hid control over the human family he would maintain the liberty of mankind man-kind and would sustain every man Iomall and child ill the enjoyment of their religious freedom no matter whit their opinions might be These arc my sentiment today In the 1 I providence of God I line trueliil I many thousands of miles in both hemispheres and have been pro served ill His power through numberless num-berless dangers md serious accidents That Ian I alive today u i by Mb I mercy I bear testimony that Joseph Smith was raised up by Almighty God as a Prophet m the last dispensation and fullness of times tint he brought forth the Hook of Mormon and triiibhted it by the gift md power of God for the bmefit of the world in the latter days I knoll that the Book of Mormon is true And is i a divinely inspired record I know that IiiLlnm Young w is inspired of God to lead the literdij Stints from persecution and bondage to1 land of liberty in the heights of the mountains And I heir testimony tint the system which is called I Mormomsin is of God and for the welfare and salvation of the I human family I do not expect to remain very I much longer on this earth but I expect ex-pect to give in account for all my I ut and words before the Lord I antI ant-I declare before God antI all men tint the apostleship and pnestship which I hold as the President of the Church of Jesus j Christ of Latter day Saints has been sent down from heaven by divine revelation ill the day and age ill which we live that j ell > Christ is the Savior of the world and that by obedience to His I commands ivnnkmd may be sued I ask God to bless this nation and all the upright mil honest in heart ol ever sect md part md country and ur i light and truth and liberty prevail till the whole earth is redeemed re-deemed Irom sin and mil WlLrOKD WOODRUI1 |