| Show r J JL oj 1 I 1 N i N 1 NN NI N N N Ia wIN N N N N w NININ i 14 N NI N w N 1 N 11 i w NIi N N H N N 1 N N 1 N N N w N w N N N I 1 y L I T N J UH MM NI NN K irr IJ t tf i II NIJ J rN ry I f r N l Nw J N 59 mm w r n M 9 mr mm NIN ta t I X I I t n rJ il i t et d a d 1 1 1 ii 10 jJ l t 1 W WI I SALT LAKE j I The CIty of the I tt 1 1 r tv 1 r NI I IMIN r i 1 WM III 4 M N NI f fA M M 1 III X INN Ii iii ii i t t I w Nr N H NH N N NH N NN N N N N N I I r N A O iw 1 1 4 NN I 1 11 1 1 11 1 I I 1 1 I 1 I I 1 1 1 1 1 I I 1 I I I I I I 1 1 I I 1 1 11 NN I I 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I 1 I I 1 1 I I I 1 I I I I I 1 I I 1 1 I 11 1 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 t 1 E E 4 t CC t CC f r ru u METING U or of the Metropolis or of the In I I t J di Regi Region on Now How It Was Vas r I i ks v Sn Set td d by b the Mormon ormon Pioneers and Now How i j i LIS Grown to Its Present Magnitude and andI n plum I I I I IJ nc n Igo la J 1 ang ii i I c cI t r I fh City 0 01 I It Ise I l Who his hll not h hIt hard r It and who hn having It 14 not been II by Its III ma It and distinct II RR III or Ir It Its I lone have Ien told in song IOU Ud dad that brevity story tor M en frequently tit prevailing Char Chart charI TOIL n 11 I o h br t I I te it or of Ihl thee I h t to well known halt lake City was b by I Mormon Pioneers Mora who led Ild hy by Pr Brigham Youn Toung the t It Take valley van on Jur Jurash Jul tier Ih were ash lIh I j In lull of whom three thrle were women been driven from trem tremt KhY ILY The Ih had t u lift r the ot of th the Prophet Joseph smith and had their Mint at a place called Winter Council Bluffs Iowa IowaN IowaN now Fro here the migration N TO was fill begun and w was vigorously pushed forward until the fall of 01 1817 when the theW I Auer W I I jJ i ij i j f d There I In n of an td c C ir i I I N LIST MAYOR THOMPSON SALT LAKE Qu ui Ezra n II chief executive of Salt Sail lAke ell City were born fifty ye yeaKO years ago aKO In the of which he Is II IsM M now the heed hed H lie hu has been s a and man 13 amt blocks ot of stock In Inthe the Siller Kin Bing and other paying properties H lie II de III r 4 1 I as a business J mane lie was wall elected mayor uC of Salt Lake In November 1889 1809 In Mr Thompson is II a m had to about 2000 men IOU souls II Tirades were Wert promptly made wit with I the tribes of 01 Indians and were won lOOn founded In all R I E puts or of Utah Ulah and with the a application H of that thrift that hu has made ormon 1 1 ism IMm synonymous with industry the JIU O 0 world over An era ern 0 of prosperity ww Inaugurated J AN RITE The between tb the site lite when I J I the ell city now stand the bleak desolate sad and uninviting ap apI I ti ranee ot of years ago I Is IsI I about a ere mat great u can be Imagined save I that It its general I wu was then as I Inow now gently undulating and almost free Ii from ml marked elevation de or ss ons I IA A short distance east of 01 the Temple I block the main stream of City creek divided Into two blanches one ot of which A flowed almost due west welt to the Jordan Jomn m nearly following the line of North Tern d pie Ile street treet In tact fact lee culvert on that street lIel Iles In the tied bed of the ancient tream much of 01 the distance to other branch Of the creek flowed n Ii It a between what I IL now noli Fast Temple and 4 lists street W If 1 I 4 Ii oH 1 t j i i I 9 D Inc and when its volume waa too loo large to tok sink k Into the thirsty earth It overflowed the banks bank and emptied Into the to the southwest Along Alona the banks ot of Ih these two to streams were numerous Ilum of 01 oak Sloughs and marshes In the western and southwestern part parI ot of the and Ami In that were areas covered with grass and rushes but the greater part ot of the Inn land now 1 within the rity limits limit II was all My dry and lle In a appearance ant and without vegetation a to tn a sparse covering of dwarfed sage brush rabbit sat weeds III the scrub Cruh oak nak referred to and ancl anda ancla a few trees and some Iome wll lows 1111 It elope is III general I and In R n direction while on the north And east 1 till the Wasatch mountains comprised an enclosing amphitheater THE PITY Grandeur of nt scope and environment Ih the site ot of the future Ill city of Ih the In a 1 degree but bUI 1111 it desert r and fp de lit of fauna and torn lora from MOlt sno barrenness ot of natural n would hays deterred any ny but bul the from an attempt nt II a In ao I a Nut INI Mountain are M a source or of Ine In u III the loftiest ideals and anti the Itle people or Utah Ulah hold holet In ru re Bald UI Inc 8 sI IIII 0 ot of m tures which rowels over the of 01 Ih tar city and to which lilt tI f I I lUll utter their dunat m In Ih the usury ally tilt tare I I the of 01 Peas Ja II a le hi M a land tI h vl visible It every part It I II ell It le I L IJ by tt It Irrl nag II staff IOU Joo I feet t In Irum 1 III livid std lIua un on pa paIt It 1111 11 and the th Is III all ae tilt as Ito III Is w th the view tuna It lie le Ib A SCENE TowerIng mountain r ranges whose ser vied tops are tipped with caps ails ot of snow lInow well nl nigh h everlasting a fertile valley ot of beautiful homes an and farms and or redeemed from the most uninvitIng In Ing sterility the world wide famous lamous Dead SeA ot of AmerIca with Its saline shores and Irregular Islands the slowly wending and lazy Jordan whIch has Its lis only counterpart In the Holy Land ot of old ned and the city It ot of the Saints no now IV set a fo forest t of beautiful shade tr trees co constitute nil tit ute the prIncipal features of at the scene lust thal lays at the feet teet or of the beholder Utah Ulah was WAI Mexican soIl II when lint reo re redoubtable doubtable band ot of Pioneers formed the Ihl vanguard which blazed the WR way for It belonged to 10 that IhAl republic when the arrived it II IIa was a soon anon taken possession or of In the Iha name of the United Stat States 11 and ancl the Stars and Stripes were thrown to 10 the breeze Within three days I after the pitched camp amp on the site or of their future horne home tho Ihl or of this noble pile llIe drew to 10 1 is 8 summit several or of their who It as Ih they PIPit at al the vast alt scene Ilene around them we were tilled with lofty lotty emotions and rl re reCalled Called c certain prophecies of scripture one or of which by Isaiah sugg the name that w was liven given to 10 the m en All II ye Inhabitants or of Ih the word anti and Dwellers ot of Ih the earth ee e ye e wit wh n he up an ensign on the mountains and nd when he a trumpet hear 11 0 b a PRE YOt S WI We have come here according to the direction and counsel of Brother Joseph before hla death old let President barn bam Youn Young to lo the Pioneers as aa Ihl they were gathered for tor the first firs I time on the present site of the block In Salt lake City It waa u a solemn There were a few antna and tents a and nil animals the properly of the Pioneer band lInd of That hand had Just a king and WIt wearisome Jour nl my for tor more than a th unties In Ina ina a comparatively unknown country a valley to the human I eye uninviting and In reputation amon among the re few traIl p rs rl who had v u It inhospitable tor habitation had been Till The master spirit ot of the an amp In chum horn his hili pie IL an Apostle of th the blessed Redeemer whom came the voice olce of God to 10 the Israel had declared JJ iT 1 t J 1 1 IlL i f r H t tr tr ti tj A J r r rI t I 7 t tI I I q i 4 1 i 1 e I 1 I j t f J J I I T tl LA r MORON T ABER f Y 1 t In I II ere structure has b ben been one Cine ot of th the moat notable nola b 10 f m In America for lor more morl than a quarter ot of II a century I It Ity or of eight thousand persona though ten thou j I nd have hae not Infrequently tour themselves I 1 11 meta I nit wall at one time The building Ie 1 0 feet leet n nh II w 11 In III The mighty dome root t the central por 1101 lion r f I II I I fl et t from the flor r la II one of 01 the largest self aup t jn n In the land The Th foundation stone atone was laid Jul July 6 I I and the thc building given riven to the public In 1 a completed oon un on t Uh when It wu wit Ile dedicated and set t apart as n a nt regular peal e a ot of meeting for the be Latter Saints It lies h since that t 1 time b n II their heir principal 1 gathering place e In Salt kit lAke City and with few eJ ea the great reat semi mla ot of the Church as n have bu a held In III It during Ute the lUt years i 4 Pt H I r f If 1 f fIt H I H H H IH HH r dh I H I H hII I L l Hh I t tj tr J I j r J r f I tf 4 Wt If s x i iN 1 iI J Jot a Jt ot J ft l 1 a N t I II tv I t tI v I a p 1 1 I Ii s j 1 t t i ml i fi t P 1 kit 3 e tt I V 1 r I J if ft Y 1 1 r fi 1 t t J 1 q 1 fir r rf f t t tI or J I 1 l r 1 f fI r I 1 c r e 1 4 i I 1 4 f BIRDSEYE VIEW OF SALT L iAk AKE C CI j 3 I r II r 1 I b r 1 1 this to be their promised land or of rest until they should become a mighty peo people Ille ant and this message had been b en r received without doubt or hesitation J A MOMENTOUS MEETING This was WR on the or of July Jul It II was 1111 a momentous fIt The as assemblage gc had bud voted oled upon the location and a plan of oC the first ell city In the new I Iland laud land And In the submit grandeur of theIr all as installing In a new 1111 ut ch amid the ever I hills hall had spoken one I 1 a dissent or a 11 murmur anti and under the inspiration of 01 that hour they list lIil I ened to th the declaration that what hal they I had tone done WR was In obedience to 10 the In instruction or of their beloved martyr I I Prophet and the they responded thereto therelo with a hearty am amen n fur tur they the realized the truth ot of what whal had lud been n said 1111 Till They also gave assent to lo the further remark I of oC their leader recorded In the Journal of oC President Wilford on July I 1817 Joseph JoNh would till Ull have been bien alive It if the had been In Nauvoo I when ht he the river from remit Mont lue statement of 01 President Young wu was the reiteration of a fact well known to lo his hearers flue fhe location ot of the Mormon on the western slope of the Hook Rocky Mountains had been tu lu to them by the first and Prophet of the Church ot of Jesus Christ of Saints Joseph Smith whose unsullied life with that ot of his hIli brother Hyrum w was I to lo the hatred of 01 II a ruthl ruthless mo mob at al Carthage Illinois at al the Vir very time when the Prophet was wa contemplating plating leAding the SaInts Sainte to the W st I there to 10 become a great rat people all as hll he had Irad declared yeArs before the they should be In these theN valleys I N BY JOSEPH To Joseph Smith belongs the and honor a as much all as many bt be ae ac carded to 10 roan fur for the Saints locating In Utah The great I Iman Iman man on whom devolved time the actual task I or of leading the Camp of oC Israel over a IL trackless H desert to lo these vales did not rail fall to give VII prominence to lo that not I Further he felt in III the depths or of his hll I soul that tr lr the Church quorum over which he presided had not nol been scat scattered I hired at distant cruet Nauvoo when Joseph and Smith re j tuned from the well western tern pioneer Jour I IMY Iney ney MY they had started on already lh the tragedy of oC Carthage would have been A averted fried and those who knew the vigor Igor and determination ot of Brigham Young and his hll Intense lose loe fur tor the great rel t Prophet ot of the latter day dispensation i had no reason to doubt his assertion But le 18 was wa not nol to lo Ul be the Twelve Th were wert I not nol In Nauvoo Joseph Joeph And Hyrum I were martyred and ancl the PIoneer com company pany of duy Saints male made 11 Its Journey to the Wet three years ears lale than the Prophet hail intended TILE The westward migration of the bod body ot of members ot of the Church of 01 Jesus Christ ot of Ia Saints to the Hock Rocky Mountain region was Ia a theme frequently considered by the Prophet sad others before the farmers death He 1111 named It to intimate associates In Inthe inthe the days of I Kirtland and In n the pater laler years yeara ot of his life It received iris his ular attention for II by hi his inspiration as al asu ala u a Prophet he kill knew It must the house of the lord must be established In the tope lOlle or of the mountains and all lIa nations lions should flow unto it II Oil as a apart part of the work or of the Gospel dIMIn committed to 10 hint him b by the Lord The subject of western removal was 81 re referred referred to In Nauvoo Con Congress gress hall been memorialized lor legis the regarding It the removal of the Mormons was ryas discussed betWeen the Joseph and Senator Stephen A Douglas The latter thought the they should locale In Oregon heard ot of as bel being ng atthe at atthe the extreme western II limit III It ot of the neat nent Hut But the Prophet said Mid no the Rocky Mountains was 1118 the place where the Saints should assemble and lic be become come powerful That district Will was then known knon III as Upper California and III as a arl rl result or of Josephs teachings rave years before the death or of lime lite prophet and the late John Tay Taylor par lor celebrated In Mormon verse the hymn beginning In Upper California Oh the land for tor me It lies U between the mountains and the great Pacific sea The from h 14 M I o I jj 1 1 j 4 ill 4 4 1 4 1 4 err 1 I 1 r I y rr iJ q t it t 1 r J It WI Y t A i r t j u n t fi j t Ia i 1 f I r f m 1 1 t ty y 1 T 1 i L H r rj j t f 0 X I t 1 H fi J y t C CI I oJ y rI r rC I K C at 1 i I oj r ao aoi aoe II i 1 1 1 e i r rI 1 l j jJ I 1 1 Y J i r r 1 11 L 1 I I F 1 t A t t t tIl l t H H Io to lu In the quotation from Brigham Young occurred In June ISH 1841 The Prophet Joseph Smith had direct directed ed the organization In February of that Ihal year Br ot of a PIoneer company to lo cross the great plains There were about twin In the organization wt if these Elder Samuel W ot of Salt Lake Inke City is II now living On the nIght of 01 June 22 12 ISH 1811 the lie and his brother Hyrum with Willard ands arda and John Taylor Talor ot of the Apostles and others crossed the Mississippi river to Montrose Iowa on the start for forthe forthe the Mountains Some ot of those thOM dwelling In Nauvoo knowing of at the Prophets movements and nd faltered anti and upbraided 1 him with abandoning them At this he returned I with the result that folio followed wet at Car Carthage I thage In less than 1 a week thereafter The very ory thing the thought I Ito to prevent had occurred Jo Joseph ph was I taken from them On One r result was wa that the pioneer Ioner wee western tern journey Wl was rat I gated to a later Inter I period to tre he attended with greater grealer for lor the people TILE PLAN 11 UNFOLDED Yet et the design had been lleen set Ht forth lort shorty time Ule Prophet Joseph had unfolded fully the plan lilan for tor the Mormon I people I to be established In the moun The bullets of 01 assassins Inter interfered to prevent his being the founder lounder I I I I IH H I IM of nt Utah but he the way af and tire the Pioneers followed ht hi direction and counsel Therefore the Prophet Joseph Smith stands land U leader guide KUlde and In of the Pioneer of 01 Utah In ly and determinedly setting tUng their faces and pointing their steps w to toward wArd this western Land or of Promse TilE SURVEY OF TIlE CITY At t the meeting held on the evening of Jul July heretofore rs re to the Apostles were appointed a committee to lo lay ore off the city the following Monday morning August 2nd Orson OrIOn Pratt and Henry 4 0 wood the work of 01 urvey Ing but decided to 10 wall It until the chain they were to use UM could be tested by a standard That urns lime evening Helier C Kimball Kimballs team returned frown the mountains lIh some om hou house 10 logs and poles for Ing On the same me da day a question NIle n to whether forty |
