Show I Honor the Pioneers I J 0 1 We e are living so close to the I Iday day when Salt Lake was but one valle valley in a vest vast wilderness that one might say imy we lf have no past put Salt Sait I Lake has only the future to contemplate contemplate con con- template and that to me is III a con I distinction dis dia- unction t that at gives it particular charm It has hall been said that our national national na na- life liCe is Sa barren because there II is a lack of ot rich tradition I 1 do donot donot donot not believe belle that our national life is barren but It does lack that rich tradition We have however VItality vi vitality vitality VI- VI In the present and the material ma- ma upon which to build a na national national na- na life of ot culture Especially J is III Salt Lake a ft city of or the present with just enough tradition to develop into a city of ot refinement and cul cul- I tu Lure ture In ln February 1846 a strong band bandor of or men and rich in Amen Ameri- Continued on page paRe S. S 81 51 SALT LAKES LAKE'S GLORY I LIES IN FUTURE WRITER BELIEVES I Continued from page 1 1 an tradition left their homes to come to this western territory In 1847 they arrived and began the task of changing an unbroken wilderness wilderness wil wil- believed to be unfit for habitation hab hab- by civilized man to the place of or today By January 1 1848 there were good comfortable though temporary lodgings and the whole land was beginning to hear the hum bum of the wheels of industry Salt Lake is now seventy-eight seventy years ears old The transformation is isi l i wonder to strangers but what the he city represents now Is but a I starting point for a long journey Nothing will stop its onward march We cant can't go down to the bottom and unfold her riches all at once but from her short past we ve can easily guess that we have not seen al that she possesses that big as asher asher asher her possessions are the greater part remain unseen and untold In history all honor goes to the pioneers and the record of Salt Lake will be among its Us first pages |