Show THU THE DUI 1 V the impress has repeatedly made tho the generous offer to both halftone half tone cuts and biographical sketches of the early sett lira of utah anil and of uintah county in fact we have proffered to pay for the halftone half balf tone cuts and hane hae even written all the tha sketches we e have heretofore published we feel that this generous offer has bas been treated i w ith rank indifference on the part of many of those who should lie le mot most in te terea rested ted in the matter look at tj the IP biographies already published in ili ahse co columns alumns they are bris bristling thing with hl hi facts of inestimable I 1 alit I 1 but forthe for the express would never havo ha e been publicly knon knain n it ir I 1 ia a duty which our piu netra etra owe to themselves their children and the general public that they thal ulia lirt exi el e l tho the rich treasures of bib li ki oi edge of which thy UK y alone are arc the guardians we have row in our office acut ft cut which wo we ha bac e ila hid d foi months and aind though we hive asked fol foi tile u its coir pany manyin ill r bl ledl ti h it il has recci been f fuin of n dished an ali il in the lion county accord Is 13 so BO i hinted upon this subject that we herewith hero willi bullish it giving it our hearty endorsement indorsement indor endorse arient tile the approaching Twenty fourth linni remind i wi that tile the old settlers of U utah t a i themselves are rap ral idly passing away tind it will lie be but it few ears eara until the only accounts of pioneer life obtainable will be betrose choso handed down by tradition or by pen lien and paper in ili view of una this fact is 13 it not it a positive duty the living pioneers pione eis owe cine to future federations Verie rations to write of 01 have written for them all that they know of life in cat eaily ly utah hie of this thia legion leg 1011 was one of tho ili m thollie tho ins doiy to y of model modain n civilization civi itz it inika in import importance aric e w with ith the founding of nw new L angl lirlind ind and in its il political iCcil and rid aspects resembles no other in ili modem ex capt that after the tha few decades have elapsed since the founding of new 14 ev angland every schall of evl evi bearing on oil its ita history has come to be regarded regard Ld as priceless in value to i hi hist of the united united states and within a century or so BO the same will be rue of the history of T boneer utah rhilla then what it bould nican mean if the old settlers would write down whit they know of pioneer life especially of the social life of those young dais asido aside aiom the historical value of such t descriptions i think how the defendants of tile pl onar r would them and would N ju i acome como to inroy them more as conditions changed and pioneer life became less and less familiar as 8 an actual fact is |