Show PILGRIMAGE CF OF THE UTAH UT AF PIONEERS j SIXTY SIXT YEARS EARS IE AGO TODAY c Y JULY 21 f 1817 JI JIn in n ft the IhO forenoon t j the pioneers com corn commenced lence il potatoes on or near leor the tho occupied by bi the Knuts Knutsford nur ford forti lt l rn tho corner comer of ot First 1 East Ent and Third South Salt Lake Laks City after atter which they turned the tho water from the lie creek upon the tho ground thus planted and gava good soaking About noon President Young holier C Kimbal Woodruff Lorenzo D Young anti tho th other brethren who constituted the hue rear company of ot pioneers arrived at lt the tho pioneer encampment on City Cly creek The president and Ind others who hail had suffered with sickness wore were Improving quits quite fasti lust and now able to wk around Apostle posto Woodruff In describing his bile entrance Into inlo tim thu lo valley that lint day writes This Is ono coo of ot tIle the most Important days of oC my lay m life and amid In 11 tile tho history of time the Church of Jesus Christ of ot Latter day lu After traveling six ix miles a it deep ravine ending eldIng with the tho can ealon j on we wo caine In lit full Cul viet ot of the vall y t r r the Crent Inke the land landof of promise held hell liei In resolve reserve by lad as ns asu asa u a a resting place for or Ills 11 saints Wo We gazed In n li wonder and admiration upon the lie vomit vast valley aley before us with thu the waters of tho the Great Salt Sni Lake Lak glisten glistening n nII ing II In the thu sun suii RUI mountains towering to the skies shies and streams of ot pure puro water running through tho ho beautiful valley nl y yI yIt It I was WIS time the grandest that we e had eWer ever beheld till tl this moment Pleasant thoughts ran rn through our lur minds at ul atthe atthe the that hilt not many hence the house of o auth would bo be 10 es oa established In lii the mountains and exulted above the lie hills Ills while lie tho valleys 1108 would bu beco b com cried Into orchards told and 1 fruitful fields cities erected to the thu name nanie of of tho lie Lord yord and thu the lie standard of ot Ion loit unfurled for lor the lie gathering ot of na nu nations anI hellS I President Young his entire entro at It the lie appearance of the tho lie saucy alo ay ni a ft I resting renting place for the lie saints and 1111 repaid for tor or his IbiS journey While lying upon his hll bud bed In iii 11 my I car carriage gazing lu upon the tho thC before us S Sll many ll I things of ot the lie future concerning the tho valley vale wore were shown to him him In a n vl vi t tI deli I n tr gazing alln awhile upon this seen seenI tr 1 I 1 IV e moved four miles 1109 the tho fi b t hI lund land Into hits tIme the tl valley talley 01 to ito tho mi nt i lIt if f our brethren who hud had arrived two days before us They had hall pitched upon tho the banks bank of oC two small streams of ot smal pure water vator an un commenced plow plowing plowIng ing luig On our arrival they theP had already 00 acres n aCt r and a ni had be begun begun begun gun planting potatoes In tho the valley of the Great Grent Salt ake As AI soon noon loon as ns our encampment was II formed formel before taking my dinner has hav having hasing ing Ins half a n bushel of or potatoes I went to the plowed Held field and Ind planted plan led them hoping with the blessing of ot God to save layo at t least the tho seed sod for tor Another nother year Tile Tho brethren had hal dammed up one ole of the thu creeks und anti dug du a I trench and alc by night nearly tho the whole ground which hl li h was ivas 1 found very vel dry elry was WI Irrigated Towards evening Brothers Heber C Kimball Coo Oeo A Smith Ezra T Benson antI and myself rode several mullets miles mies UP Iii the tho lh creek cree It City Cl creek ercek Into tho ho mountains to look for timber mid see sel seethe the thc country countr There Thero was wn H ti thunder thulder shower and Ind It I rained over nearly the tho whole valley It Il also uilo rained a little Ite In time the fore Core part of the night We lYe Ve felt relt thankful for tor this as nM It I was WUI the generally conceived opinion ohm ton ion that lint It did not rain In the valley sailey luring during the tue summer season Here There ends enda the pilgrimage of nt the tho Utah pioneers We e have followed thorn thom day tiny by b day In their hard ban hardships ships front from tho tIm Missouri over to the tho lut val valley nl Icy ley of the Great Orent Salt Lake and the tho writer can vouch for tor tho the correctness of ot tho the narrative given ghen as I It I has hns hns been heon care carefully oily fully tul compiled from tram original docu documents ments and private Journals written at atthe lt atthe the time tinie and the only aim of the his historian torian has hos hal been to present facts with without out nut any J attempt at tho higher rhetoric or other embellishments AS the nar miar narrative Into Itself shows I J have copied free fico freely ly from tho the private L Journals of OC Elders 1 I Orson O OI Pratt and William Clayton Clu lon but butI I I have also alKo compared every days tn s hap hn 1 with the Journal kept by Thomas Bullock Bulock the authorized of ot the tho pioneer ramp cump 1 I am eni al Ill also II so EO Indebted to tho the writings of Elder Woodruff Amel M 1 Lymun TObin John Brown nod for several Items of history presented In connection loll tion lon with wih the tho main mall story glory The ho task tn I of ot compilation hints has boon hicen 1 en a 1 laborious hIlt but vithal a 1 pleasant ono one onoto oneto to tn this the Iw compiler who hopes that the bin patrons patron of n tho ho News have enjoyed reading the story stor of one nun of the most Important anti and remarkable bodies of men muon lel that ever csor founded lift imp lifton nl on the tho American continent Not only thin the present beautiful capital of our nile great Inland state owns owes OWlS It Il Its to In thin the pioneers of o hilt but Indi hidi Indirectly about seven hundred towns lowns villages null scattered settle In iii this great re ri region 1 glen gion Ion ran can at al hast I li In 11 part lain trace their origin to 10 the successful pilgrimage pl of the Itah pioneers pioneer W JENSON |