Show MONUMENT TO B BUILT IN HONOR HONOROF OF PIONEERS Mormon B Battalion Commission Com Corn Commis mis mi's mission ion Is Appointed cg by Governor Governo Spry The Mormon battalion commission was yesterday yesterday- appointed by Governor Gover Gayer nor Spry Tho The lost loot legislature authorized au such a commission to select selecta a ft alto on the tho state capitol grounds or or- ora a mop monument ent t to bo be oreo created eq there thereto to commemorate o te t the ai 1 V O pf of this body of f men nion cn an and pro procure r a s suitable tt ble design for r It t. t In ll doing thE preliminary work 1000 1000 may be spent After the site Bite ha bee ban been Ie and plana Ians accept accept- ed ed funds will 1111 be collected to erect the L monument 1 The Te G Daughters fJ 9 of cc the Mormon Ba Baton Bat Bat- ton wits was organized t for tho thAi p purpose f erecting eUng tu tha m and q ba been heen working wording to W end for Th The members member now have haye 1 1300 00 and pd they g r propose to raise sq s sufficient f funds fluids d to erect an Ln Imposing structure to tho the m memory mory of ot tho the men who made the remarkable march across the country rg F. F Goodwin who vho ho hohas has boon beep appointed a It member of oC the commission Introduced the measure In the legislature and anti succeeded In Ins s getting It pp parsed Mrs Ir PIa w ol and nd Mrs lUrS' Davis ls also l o on the commission were active In pushing the measure measure July 17 is I l Historic By a 8 coincidence c Utah day at the San an Diego e exposition falls on July uly 17 17 one day after fter the anniversary of the mustering out of the battalion n at the theold theold theold old Mission l In Ip San Diego DIeg It has been suggested to commemorate this historical historical his his- cal tori-cal event by mustering out the Salt Bait Lake high school cadets battalIon battalion battal battal- ion and having tho the choir In attendance John Q w. w who h Is Ii now ow Jn jp n charge of the Utah building building build nC ing at the San Diego fair 1 is In charge of the program tic io Is Js particularly par par- interested In the movement because C Capt 1 James Brown 0 a member member mem mem- ber o of the tho battalion battalIn was l his s grand grand- f father ther T The B Mormon Marmon Battalion was regu reu- enlisted ed n n tl the e service o of ot lq United d States ta es at CO Council n Bluffs la in o on Jul July 16 16 1846 T Tie The e story of tho trip trIpot of ot t tills the batt pf men from t the e va valley loy on on- onto to San Ban Diego forms one ona of the tho thrilling chapters In the a ry of ot the tho development of pr the great great- southwest Full Fully 2000 miles mUes th they Y pam came southward to El Paso and then almost due west over aver a road rond which ultimately ultimate was taken by the Southern Pacific through the dan dan- country Inhabited only by savages and ard wild beasts until they arrived at at atthe the old town of ot San Diego Tle had been al allowed Ved o by the government 42 per man for far the purchase of clothing U tho lio o y ye r. r Because of ot the tIa financial straits of their mUles families t nearly all f this manoy money mon man ey oy was s' s s' s returned to Council Bluffs and while this undoubtedly was ot of great assistance to the pioneers who entered the Salt Salt Lake Lake valley in July of t 1847 the tho lack Jack of ot funds of-funds funds raised additional ad ad- difficulties In the path of the battalion which made the historic march cr command of ot Col Philip St St. George Cook One of the original sources uncovered sources uncovered In the search for forthe forthe forthe the history of that march Is the let t ter r written b by Colonel Colone Cook from the mission of San Diego on January 30 1847 In lu the tile form ot of of a congratulatory letter to the Mormon b battalion upon the arrival al at the old mission It might be mentioned that the tile c chart art of the road rand was sent to Washington Wash Wash- ington where years later Jt Jl t was used for Cor the construction Uon of ot the th Southern Pacific railway Found First Gold On the return march from San Diego to Salt Bait Lake Lka the battalion pioneered plo pio- road read pf of nearly neary miles through Cajon pass It took part In n the discovery ry of ot the he first gold i in California at st Sutter creek and anti thus Jn So add addition to adding uncounted d to the I nations nation's wealth gave ap an impetus to the tle settlement of Call Cali fornia and nd really furnished an Important Im fin milestone In the tho beginning of ot all an western development They brought from California Into Utah seeds eods of various kinds by moans means of or which Utah was developed They carried back the Ideas of ot irrigation which they had bad seen at the old mission mission mis mis- sion ilon the tho first Irrigation project In the country and aud nd from which they h lied had d previously adopted their own irrigation irrigation ir ir- systems in and about San Diego S Captain James Brown rown was sept sent to California to collect the pay for the tle theA battalion and BId returned to Utah with A Spanish doubloons which was thus the first gold 2014 coin to be 1 in the tile state of Utah Tho Iho ho Pueblo detachment of ot tho the Mormon Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon battalion was wu the first fint United States military organization to c enter ter Utah and was escorted Into tho the Salt La Lake o yancy by a 0 detail detal sent out b by Brigham Young Governor Spry suggested yesterday yesterday yester yester- day that the surviving members of ot the battalion be sent to San Diego If It the tho celebration there thero takes place He said he would contribute to a n fund to send them r |