| Show Mormon o mo B Monument Campaign aign Starts Next Sunday if E t lit IE fE IE It K W. W t IE Ii Six Six S States a es and Canada W Will ill Contribute To Toward ward 1 Fund I I DOUGHTY D DEEDS Of DATTALO k fIGHT 11 ELATED Vanguard of Colonists to West Organization Is Called Committees to Carry Out Drive Plans PTER several months devoted devoted devoted de de- de- de A AFTER voted to pe perfecting monument monument monument ment committees in every county of Utah Idaho Nevada Arizona Wyoming Colorado and southern Canada the Mormon battalion monument monument monument ment drive will be launched Sunday by the monument commission to raise with which to build a memorial to the famous Mormon bat bat- The state legislature has appropriated appropriated appropriated ap ap- ap- ap the same amount for the memorial mEmori J. J This stone tribute to the memory of the who enlisted In the service i II of the United States at Council Bluffs Ia la July 16 1846 and became the vanguard of the colonizers of oC the West Vest will be erected on a a. prominent site on the state capitol grounds Chaplain B. B II IL Roberts president of the monument commission will speak in Heber on Sunday in the interest of the drive and in Price on the following Tuesday Meetings will wUl willbe willbe be held In every city and town in the states in which the drive is to t toe e e launched and various monument committees will use their own individual individual indi indi- vidual schemes for the raising of the fund In every Mormon meeting house the monument will be bo the subject subject subject sub sub- of discussion on Sunday night ENTHUSIASM HIGH Mrs May Belle T. T Davis secretary of the drive committee announced I today that great enthusiasm had been met with everywhere and that several I thousand dollars had been sent to I headquarters already On July 24 last at Vernal Utah 1100 was raised I for tor the fund Mrs Davis said The drive will continue until January Jan Jan- Jan 1 uary 30 It is expected the descendants descendants descendants descend descend- ants of Mormon battalion members will be the heaviest contributors The monument approved by the committee to inspect the model is a symbolic representation of the Spirit of the West It will be set seton seton seton on a a. triangular base with concave sides and rounded corners FIGURE AT TOP A bronze figure of a member of the battalion will be mounted on the central central central cen cen- corner Flanking him on two sides of the triangle are scenes cut in high relief of the enlistment of the battalion under the flag of the United States and of a march In which the themen themen themen men are assisting in pulling the wagons wagons wagons wag wag- ons of their train over a precipitous ascent The background is a representation of mountains through which the battalion battalion bat bat- was compelled to pas son its Journey to the Pacific coast Just below the peak In the center is I chiseled a beautiful head and the upper up up- per part of the body of ot a woman symbolizing sym- sym UP-I UP the Id idealism which TV wn was no th the ho i j motive motive force that that- that led d the men ne of f ih the battalion into the trackless wilderness I and aid through the defiles and passes of I the mountains INDIANS APPEAR I The back of the monument has been happily designed ned according to the committee The Idea which dominates the sculpture work here Is the vanishIng vanishing vanishing vanish vanish- ing of the former race in contrast to the active pioneering of oC the new set set- Hers The figure of oC an Indian woman is dimly suggested whose body and j I I outstretched arms draped In the tho customary customary customary cus cus- tomary blanket are faintly suggested in the craigs and rocks The figure is heroic in size On either side on the lower C folds of the blanket are two more scenes Incidental in incidental incidental In- In to the Journey and labors of the battalion On the right half hal Is a I scene at Sutter's mill where some of of the members of ot the battalion are digging dig dig- digI I ging where Bing-where where gold was first discovered In the gravel On the left half a battalion battalion bat bat- Ii tallon man is digging an creek indicating the Introduction of ir irrigation irrigation ir- ir into Utah ir-I ir |
