| Show t I I Ii i IJ tIll i c U OF THIS 1 I IS THE TH f t d dt PLACE 99 I II H I I r So Sro Said 5 n I d B Brigham r I II h n m You Young n II in July 1847 1 I r I So Says 5 a ys Everybody Eve y bod In n J July u I y 1 1903 I H i II H eel I H r IH wI I H IH I H I wwI H 11 I I i HH I HwI H HH M Hj j H s IIo r f J I IJ J 4 fl M foi 1 3 f Jf iI iIa 1 iL f 1 a I r of j I T 4 t ti i r x r i r r rep 4 u I f I I r rt t ww t t w II H I H HII I H l III wee PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG IN 1801 I From a Pen Sketch by Frederick Piero y SIX years nr ago this val valy valloy loy ley y was Willi without a human hubl habl habitation tation Prior to that time lime and anti fIFTYSIX perhaps us as tar fur back as us historical cal cut record rel re ord extends this land lanti had to been mow moru or m loss less given gen over the sport of ot the elements and ant andover the thew w over Its arid surface roamed 10 will w man and nn the wild willi boast beast form sud a waste that had been ly Iy lying ing tor for ages producing nothing into of the choicest sputa spots of ot civilisation and to effect ecret the tile change within the lapso lapse of ot a t half halt century Is ts I an achieve that must challenge the tho of ot the world for all time attention at atall atall No o one who gives any all ail to the history anti ant development of ot the th world could withhold his keenest Int interest reat from train the inspiring story Mary of ot the tha subjugation gatlon of ot the west It is a I theme that th t haa has hae engaged the tho talents of ot the his lorlan 1 the poet anti and an the orator for BO to years and Ln yet et the tho theme themo is still fruitful It to is one OM of ot the groat great world movements its Influence reaching out to the tho utter t ends of the earth Humanity should ld feel eel forever grateful to the bravo brave men and anti women who journeyed toward the tho sunset and worked and toll tolled tolled ed aird hungered here until the forbidding forbid ding elements were ero conquered and man here In safety end ond In luxury To nil who ho participated In tho the pioneer r in this great went roan man Ovell otres a 11 debt of ot gratitude but there Is II Ison isone on one OM toile band ball of ot humble men who will forever forever stand as the tile rent real pioneers of ot ottile the tile vest yest ut These modest men have nev never er asked a ked for honors nor recognition of ot any kind Ind and yet Vet et they hold within their rugged hands the magic maglo key that un unlocked unlocked unlocked locked this mighty mountain empire Theirs Thein was wua the Initial advent of ot civil civilized civilIzed civilized man Into the west to adopt it as their home This country is properly sp s speaking tho the child of ot the Mormon pioneers pioneer It 11 Is true that other men have passed over dyer these thene mountains and ond through the valleys but they the were elther er adventurers explorers or scouts couta and never thought fr fur gr n a moment of ot making this their home hom With the tho Mormon pioneer It was all different He lie cast his eyes eye towards the sinking sun Bun and said raid The sun lun un s sets ts beyond the tile land that Is to hereafter succor me Away A wily out yon yonder yonder yonder der somewhere I will make malIc my m home and my m bones wilt will mingle with the toll loll ot of that unknown land III nil NOT GOLD NOT FAME That was the difference The rho edven adventurer sought gold old or tame fame while the tho t sought BOught neither gold nor fame only a 11 place where whore he could pitch hIM bin tent In peace love lave his neighbors and ond serve his hilt God hod Consequently the west Is le theirs They rhey were the first ones onos to believe In her and the to draw from her withered bosom the milk of ot life Theirs were Weft tho the first hands to 10 cover coor her parched face with n ith the bloom of ot lowers flowers and the wealth of ot harvest to uncover her gold fold golden en in treasures had stored away ages agon ago and to turn the tide of ot emi emigration emigration gration Into her hur ample lap extending to millions of ot the children of o men the comfort com tort of ot anti the line blessings of ot wealth That lulu band ban ot of men was n blessing to the world than thon Napoleon and an ull oil his marshals They among the worlds Immor Immortal immortal tal builders They shaped a n founded d on equity and truth they thoy erected homes and founded them upon virtue and Industry and Into all that they did they Injected their own strong bold boM self They had hilt hadn hilta n a tremendous faith In their God and tor for their love of ot Jfhn wrought with their own hands the tine miracles that all nil eyes cnn can now behold NEW AND THE OLD OLDIn OLDIn OLDIn In tho the countries of ot tho the old world CO IiO years bring no change that Is le largely noticeable Over them hovers the spir spirits its of ot the Illustrious dead of ot the ancient past palt Europe lives In memories hug hugging huggin ging gin to her bosom bo orn the parchment of ot forgotten mummies and striking to tho the tartly earth the hand that Is la rills rats ed eti to aall attention from Crom her Idols America lives lIell In hr the glow ot of hope So fondly has she turned her eyes eye to the future we sometimes shudder der del when whon we wo wonder onder If It she has entire entirely ly Iy forgotten the post past Advancing with great rent leaps and bounds America Inns has outstripped the countries rles of ot the old ol world In all material things Europe loves lovos the old DIll America the new now Europe I loves to philosophize America to ox ex experiment Europe Is proud of ot her es s America of her robust com corn commercialism The Tho world Inns ins come to speak ot of the o America and there thero Is no ho part of ot this vast and ener ncr energetic energetic getic country that It le more mote thoroughly Imbued with spirit of ot America than this western country which started from the tho pioneers and received Its fiat throb and breath of life lICe from them then Why should this land not bo be bothe bothe bethe the my very core of ot a nation that Is ad od advancing rapidly Into the future Why Wh they thy were prophets who came to the mountains In tho too early days They The Thet t 1 I i iiiI 1 11 r t V lit Ii s Y cI f f r I t I a f I 1 ii r E iL f I j Ii i t 1 m t 3 s t J t X I 1 t f Y f I 1 II f t I i r Y t w T 1 ft i r f i f t tr I II I I wee 1 I 11 11 1 11 11 1 1 11 JEDEDIAH M GRANT IN tN 1864 From a Picture by Frederick lleret t tt H I IH H i H r w j were working out the mighty purposes ot of God and nd shaping the cur current current current rent of ot civilization It H matters not whether they the felt relt their mission or not they thy cast cust their lot In these uninviting mountain fastnesses and ant with a n sub euh sublime lime hope und nod n a noble courage proceed proceeded I ed ad to carve Into reality their own pro prophetic prophetic I utterances No men over be believed I more In n the future than they the or more moro grandly exhibited the hove hope ho e that was In them They fhe are numbered among the greatest optimists of ot nil all ages and taught their descendants the most mOlt useful lessons of ot life lICe When other men mon despaired they the smiled 1111 II ell and hoped For 01 a fate tate that other men would curve curse they reverently bowed their heads and acknowledged the hand of ot God In the HItt H r wwi I Il t wI midst of ot conditions that awed t e hearts of at other men they sang rang and ond danced anti and anI filled the air with happy laughter TIm TILE IMPRESS OF OP Was It not a 0 fortunate thing there therefore therefore therefore fore for the tile west to be biJ reclaimed to the use u e of ot men man by py y these thele men who stamped upon its granite walls the tine im lm impress press NilS of ot their own strength of o charac charae character lent ter It was U tilting lilting also alto that they the should be led fed here by b a 11 master malter hand So thor thoro thoroughly did dill Brigham Youngs Younge genius dominate every detail of o the opening up of ot this country that It would be Im Impossible ImPossible possible to In separate his hll personality from the achievements of oC the pioneers In feet ct he stands an as the greatest type of ot the pioneer He had as sublime a 1 cour i 1 I H 11 III I I I HH H I H I r age as any an man ever had and was en tn endowed endowed dowed with the tile ability to drive fear out of ot the hearts of ot those who were with l him On entering this new and Inhospitable land he was wall confronted by the grayest gravest of ot problems every day dllY of his life His Ill people were here with very little to eat almost too late In the season to plant and with almost noth note nothing nothIng ing lug to plant And yet ret rot they the were wen to depend on the soil that tint In ell all probability ity It had h d never neer yielded a II grain of ot corn since the dawn d wn ot of time to give them fool food to live upon Young turned hrs lifs Iron Iran will wm upon u On this problem and anti a little Inter later had It solved and gave to the western world the Irrigation eye 11 system tem tern that tha t has bas proved more valuable va lUll bl than all her mines And N so he faced A I u rw w 4 I V n 1 N C D Pi l 1 1 ig r d er k y a 1 h hA hs A o s N 4 p r r fl vi u ut sr t I N E w j i I n t a D DI v I I IJ 1 J e 1 1 t x A Av i s sI v I 1 rue e a eI Joo 4 I ot J Melr tl I Iff 4 ft 4 ff e rr 1 t ar J II n c cl M G P l I 7 r i Of J r C 1 0 y J V L f THE FREDERICK PIERCY MAP OF UTAH IN uY INThe I lab J The present generation will ill b bot be At d In studying the map of t Utah tah as at shown IOn In the Route Prom Preen Liverpool to the Greet Great i Halt It take Lake Valley published by Franklin IX n In HU ISK Th The tact fact that will stand out mutt must conspicuously con cun conspicuously before J to the eyes of ot the reader will b biJ be the vast arm area ar of ot our territory at that time Umee 11 It II win will 11 be observed be that the western tun boundary extended to the tine California Un line and that there TM wee no ur Nevada In those te days dayn da that there wee was no Idaho no Wyoming no Colorado and no Art Ariaone ton and that Utah reached d out eves wot mountain and arid plain to the vast prairies of ot Kansas I on an the Nut east Another point of ot Interest Is th tl that lot that time wen wee tw but fourteen counties when this snap map was mode mILd they were Weber Davis Green Orten River Great Greet Salt Sail dt Lake take Utah Tooele Tooh Juab Dullard Sanpete Iron Washington Carton Carson Ca on nn and l Summit They Thay may lIay b be eully eull located boated by means ot of the tine cled figures figure indicating tho the number of ot the county count and lUllS the tb dotted Hats Una which form their boundaries I II I i III I I wwI I r t I Ir I HH h i i wI HIt s sH sI y yc c of I y yot ot 1 i r y t 1 H i Y X t r 1 L I J I 1 I T Iii 1 ii X t 1 y IC v t r t tr r 1 t f r J JI T TrE tk da I T I 1 I d w H h I HI HH I wr H a war H I I H 4 i w H F w H I f HII HEBER C KIMBALL I J IN N 1814 From a Ii Picture by Frederick I Piercy every lver question that arose arole and answered them wisely wilily and justly Th the pages pagel of lit history bear no name that his lda In the field to which Owl God had called him lie He possessed those tho peculiar faculties ties tl that seemed l to give Ie him unlimited resources for tor the subduing of oC a coun conn country country try tt He had lied to a marvelous degree des a resource for the expedient seeming to know Instinctively what to do BIRTH POINSEtt OF DAY DAYOn DAYOn DAYOn On the day of It July Juh 1847 1811 this man with of ot his followers followell emerged d tram from the mouth of ot Immigration Emigration canyon canon and cord calmly surveyed the valley alley at their f ft feet et Brigham Young Yo un was 81 iii but Jut no physical affliction could over er mar the buoyancy of ot hla his strohl spirit In the tone ot of a weary wanderer who ho haa bas he be beheld held hit hie hi home Itt at t law he h pried cried td to Mi h This U is and th lt t i train of ot wagons aulI wound Its Ita way a down Into the valley alley and that night Salt Satt Lake Like City was al born The pioneers pioneer were on MexIcan territory but their love for or the Hag flag and the republic r as assorted sorted Itself and they tiler ascended to the th summit of ot Ensign peak where the Stars Stare and Stripes were hoisted heisted and national anthems anthem I were sung ung ItU When one tope stops to think that It was just years year eare ago ro o that th this scene cene was wu enacted ended he is ly struck truck with Mm These e men had bad lIall little experience In building up a new country and certainly eer were never neer be before befort before fore fort face to face tae with Ith such illICit serious problems as II e confronted them here One of ot the tho most molt striking things about Brig Brie Brigham Brigham ham Young Youn was wal his content constant word won I to his hili people that they were here hereto to stay slay ala they the must remain no matter neither what hap hp happens happens pens You ore are wedded to tills this soil soli and for tor your take sake God will unloose the hidden springs and these arid valleys will How flow Ilo with milk and honey lie I II 1 I I I I 3 looked looke far tar Into the future end and prepared for fur It He lie laid strong atron foundations fount He Ue loved lovd to build against the storm sterna mid and see It beat Hat In vain against the product of his hll naiad mind anti and an hands hand Each dayn work wee waa as II if It It were t tl j effect generation yet to be On the great plains he ins would plant grain and the th next day move on Somebody h ho knew would reap what he b had sown He had hall a tor for permanency any anything anything thing lacking I stability either Ither in build building buildIng ing lag or 01 man he M ear care to have much to tv do with Consequently he ho surrounded himself with flU strong tron iron willed min men who made it possible po lIble fur for him to do his hll work AN IN HISTORY History knows knoW nothing about any similar event that can compare with Ith the thi Journey jo rn of at the tb r Into the welt west Newly Nearly two thousand th u nd miles mlle of pathless territory was tra tea traversed versed after ter a hasty hut preparation that covered coveted an incredibly brief space of ot time The Th future must be from men It Is II a t wise wi providence that t tso has hasso hasso so ordered It If IC these men could have havo peered across the plains and seen the and exhaustion that were e to come to them If they the could rould have looked down over th arren land that wa destined de to be their home am and have bavo felt the hunger and sorrow that sub tub subsequently subsequently pinched their stomachs stomach and gnawed at their hearts they would per hap hags have said 1 J am unequal mutual to It Almighty God clod this bitter cup must rises pass MIN I 1 am only a man But Bat they turned tur d their taps face fa towards the unknown land and proceeded on from corn day liay to today toda today day da cheering each other and fixing tn their lr minds steadfastly upon ur n the prom promises lee of their God They The did not regard rellan themselves an as exiles being driven forth to die but as sa pilgrims of ot the Lord HIi H i 1 f q I z I J I 1 I ht J 1 t f 1 I t r fl i I IJ I J IJ I II J i r 1 P 1 I I I 5 l lI I j L 0 1 I I 1 J I C ire p pI I h hf f ft t o J 0 l J i f I J JI i 1 r 11 I j 1 t wa 11 I ti I I t J r to e X t ft W tl j jt f fi t t f I l Jo i t tJ J J I IS 1 X f t f S r 1 X I I IJ J I I 4 Y Y I Ia r J i J a E J 1 I sl r a JI JIa 1 a 1 r 1 1 r rj i i I tL j t t j H n H 1111 n i HI n WJ t Ill n i M 1 1 Mi 1 11 H H L II J HI II M HI HK J I MONUMENT ERECTED to the tho ME MEMORY ORY l of ol the tho PIONEERS |
