Show weekly saturday times page 2 TINS 0 PA T TOPAZ H editorial staff JaTi Tan anese art daniel C ota iwao tomoye harumi kawahara fumi nabeta eiko honda kiyoshi kimoto section iwao Phi mizu george kawai georgo yuri staff yurl staff fujiye matfus aki yon and tech technical cical art editor bennie nobori ccartoonist nobori rose iari ikebuchi lari circulation ri jack mehiko Ile hiko warren watanabe jimmy kikng kikugawa katsu george hideko editorial MORMON SAGA V IV sons history of richard Nel nelsons belsons part thrilling par its most young when moment looking brigham the has now reached great salt lake valley upon the this is the place said ay the famous remark reminds us that behind the words lay one of the most resaga of markable stories of america the soga the mormon RICHARD NELSON NELON W part VII VIZ Continued in april 1847 brigham young select ed a party of KB including 3 women and 2 children and the handiest could har hardiest diest men he coulat muster and sot out from winter quarters seventy three prairie schooners ners drawn by mules horses and oxen stretched out far oscr hill and valley toward the land of 7 TTO katayama managing editor ashL norman UTAH icia i 1 OF UTAH i by HED AT THE CENTRAL PUBLISHED CR relocation CENTER 5A trek yearn now it is over a hundred years the assassination of joseph smith since found- er of the mormon faith in the town of carthage and missouri the subsequent memorable hegira of the latter day across indian missouri saints from blis infested plains over the towering and and into the virtually uninicy habited utah valleys ce place this is the all the great mormon promise this was the vanguard company going into the far ut to find the where the entire people could seplace whore cure peace and tr by early summer the caravan reached the foothills of tato rocky mountains timber wolves and rattlesnakes were now encountered rolling prairies gave way to bluffs mountain passes took place of open the rumble of wagon wheels oden trails and the lowing of cattle re sounded from canyon to canyon as the long caravan often doubling forward nvard forged its way fo up jhc the teams to climb the steep grades A few days broached the before they reached groat salt lake president valley of the great young became extremely ill with mountain fever and was left behind in the care of the company while a selected few under the direction of orson pratt pushed on tha vanguard group came into salt lake valley on july and saturday july 24 1847 brigham young with the main portion of the pioneer company emerged upon the narrow plateau near the mouth of emigration canyon coming out of the seemingly mountain aill ranges at last the endless mount gallant pioneers behold a vista which to their cirod eyes must have seemed a mirage in a desert about noon on leader slid but we wonder whether his followers realized what this place was good for if anything certainly the desert valley which stretched before the eyes cormons of the mormons could not have appeared as an inviting prospect compared to the last beautiful city they had left behind them nauvoo in missouri the story of the terrible first years of the mormon settlement in utah is an epic of courage against almost insurmountable odds and that story will unfold in the Nel sons hisbelsons nelsons n one could is certain that ne succeeding chapters of mr tory it have foreseen the center place rise of a metropolitan like salt lake city in this which young envisioned we who are evacuees es from the pacific coast are apt to magnify our troubles and consider that our trials re without precedent nt in american history but it would be a salutary thing for us if we to understand the extraordinary persecutions and tribulations which the mormons cormons underwent compared to the savagery and fury which hounded this religious group we can be thankful that we live in a more enlightened time IK ix were there beneath them was a vast undu dulating plain sloping gently down to the blue salty waters of a lake while towering them in on snow capped mountains hemmed lined all sides brilliantly canyons gleamed in tile the strong sunlight and occasional green graell trees frees peered from C rocky crevices brigham ghan young Bri A riding inn wilford woodruffs carriage the apostle assisted tha mormon leader to attain a sitting together they beheld the expos posture uva which was to become their valley tensive was newv home of the event woodruff recordnc ed in his journal we gazed in wonder and admiration upon the vast valley before us with the salt lake glistening waters of the great in the sun leader remarked this is the place drive on to be continued next week The Mormon |