Show Biography p y of Brigham Y Young axed and and History of the Mormon Chur Church h I I M. M R. R Werner w etner in Lac es Home Journal J To be continued next week weep The Tho men women and children of or 1 the Ufe settlement organized into squads armed with willow brush brooms with which they attempted to ItO sweep I the tho armies of crickets and grasshoppers grasshoppers grass gras hoppers into the creeks creel s where coffee coffee cof cot cofI m I fee sacks were placed which as soon as ns they wele full ful were buried in trenches But Dat this was slow and laborious battle Suddenly as as' as the Mormons were beginning to 10 despair of saving any of their crops flocks of beautiful white glossy Gulf bull ulli with bright red beaks and feet and looking like doves in form and motion motion mo mo- mo-I mo tion swept down do gracefully upon the tIle valley At first the Mormons looking lookIng looking look look- ing up at the sky in their anxious bewilderment consid considered red this another another another an an- other torment for their unknown transgressions ssi but quickly t they ey noticed noticed no no- that the gulls began to eat cat the tIle crickets as rapidly as they could coula swallow them At early dawn Hawn they came each day clay from time tile islands of or Great Salt Lake and amid feasted all a Gay day a long The rime Mormons came to the conclusion conclusion conclusion con con- that this was the greatest miracle of all they had haa yet witness witness- ed But It was a a. miracle repeated with seasonal periodicity during juring the next ten years the crickets and grasshoppers several times damaged the crops and several times the Hie gulls saved them from n niter ter de de- The rime new now settlement survived crickets crickets crick crick- ets eta and drought bought iv 11 r. r it was warm early subjected to a more serious tet of endurance The sadden discovery dl elY co of gold in California d a dis s- stance distance tance awa away was the source of bom batt potential profit t and t cI ha- ha ier to th the c z rom rem The Tho disco y is credited to James W W. Marshall who was dIgging digging digging dig dIg- ging ono one da day early lu 11 1848 1345 with a group of Mormon momma from the time Mormon Battalion at Slitters Setters Fort near Sacramento Marshall though not nos nota a Mormon Jormon himself was In Jn charge of these Mormon lormon laborers who who v Ole ere digging a mill miU race for Captain Sutter Sutter Sut Sut- ter tel when their shovels turned r rp p I Isome some small yellow ellow grains with time ile soft dirt News pf pt the great discovery discovery discovery ery was kept quiet at first but by February 1849 1349 it had spread sum sufi to to bring more than eight thousand emigrants and by 1849 1549 there were said to be fo forty ty thousand Americans in California 1 Profiting h by the time Gold Rush Hush The first definite news of the I ex extent extent ex- ex tent of the time gold discovery was carried carried car cat ried to Salt Lake Ci City y by members of the Mormon Jormon Batta on on who went there from California to join UH their lr families They brought gold sold in metal and in Jn dust tIli this was us usi Ci us sec security for tor the Kirtland Bank Banle notes which Joseph Smith had prophesied would be as good as gold some someday day Brigham Young took tool this as another instance of ot the divine authenticity authenticity authenticity au au- of the late prophet Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon currency consisted at this besides these few notes of bla blankets grain seed and flour and for mazy many years after the discovery of gold remained scarce in Salt Lake City where the system of or barter barter hartel bar har- ter tel remained in use until 1860 This system gave Brigham Young a great economic hold on his people because a man could not easil easily ac accumulate accumulate ac- ac c- c cumulate riches convertible outside Utah and It was therefore difficult to leave the territory even if one became dissatisfied with its government government government govern govern- ment or disgusted with its religion The fhe discovery of gold gole and the Immediate immediate immediate im Im- im- im mediate rush to mine It were both the greatest blessing and amid the greatest greatest greatest great great- est trial of or the community at Salt Lake The gold rush fulfilled the prediction of Heber C. C Kimball that within a short time Mormons would be able to buy goods cheaper in Salt Lake City than in the east and at the same time it threatened to disrupt the community by the temptation it offered its members to go such a comparatively short shon distance and amid grow rich quickly The eager migrants Emigrants to California Call Call- fornia stopped topped at Salt Lake City to refresh themselves and us usually left as encumbrances much property that was invaluable to the time Mormons There were auction sales daily In Inthe Inthe inthe the new streets of Salt Lake City and a yoke of oxen with Avith three or four heavy wagons would be offered offered offer offer- ed for one light wagon and a horse to carry an emigrant his shovel and pick and the food tood he needed for the trip to 10 the gold fields Mormons bought for thirty-seven thirty and a half haIr cents which sold in St. St Louis for a dollar doUar and a half haIr and tools and farming implements which cost a hundred dollars in the east were purchased for lor twenty-five twenty in Salt Lake City Brigham Young was not particularly particularly interested in making gold seekers seek seel- seekers ers Mormons he was vitally concerned concerned concerned con con- with the time tendency of Mor Mor- Mormons mons to become gold seekers His sermons at the period of mining activity activity activity ac ac- ac- ac bristle with denunciation of the lure of gold and amI it ii was one of his iris greatest triumphs that the time Mormons Mormons Mor Mor- n mons mons ons lost comparatively few fe men meni i COn On Last Page f From Page Pago One f BRIGHAM YOUNG 7 i to the tho mh mines es After the they had in operation n for ten years rears and his and own community ri y h had d been establish established ed cd fo for twelve twee years Brigham Ya Young ng I h-I l pointed with pride to the g i prosperity of the life comPared compared j with the haphazard f fortunes of r those I who lived in California Men fen women and aud n run rip fUll to California t to get gold They wire were cre j I then told what I I. I can now prove o t Go to California ou wi will two i I win not curse curso you we wo will wUl no 1 Injure In- In n- n jure nor nOt destroy but hut you we vill m pity you ou If you must lUst Igo go o for g gold d and that is is your g god lg go and I I will ilI promise you ou one ono thing thinS Every man that stays here and pays nays ays' ays attention to his Ills business will be abl able within lin linten ten years ears to bu buy out out- four of or those who leave for tor the gold minesT You may take all who have unadvisedly gone gono from froin this terri territory Ir land and hundreds and thousands I hive ve veso so gone and I believe beHove that that that-I I alone am able to buy the whole of th thorn them m. m th though ugh when I came amo hero here I had but butery very ery little property properly except wh what t I owed for Journal of or Discourses Vol VI pp 11 If The Tho s Access of tl the tho e coni community was as attributed by all who watched its Hs carl early growth g to the guiding once and strict domination of Brigham Brig Brig- ham Young It was to obtain cooperative cooperative coop coop- endeavor among his Ic people plc and perseverance In lt tile the face aco of r Jm- Jm monso mense with the nat natural disadvantages of their environment that thai Brigham Young had bud his life liCe Hu and ho 10 alone tall among his people realized that an autocratic auto auto- cratic communism was their on only 1 salvation and he fought sometimes savagely to o maintain this Idea which was to go so successful economically To bo be Con Continued tin i f |