| Show TUE P PASSING V OF THREE OLD LAND MARKS NARKS I time he last laRI fortnight Pro Progress 0 gross gress lids litis deprived Salt Smut Luke Lake of or three throe of ot it Its till the old hom homI teu al l the I Joseph A Young residence r and the th Pio Ilo Pioneer neer nHI lee tutu mill On JI the time sites QC cit nil alt three handsome new n structures with sooner or o litter later ba Its erected The fh Whitney home horne the he oldest nf or this the th three hRs has bent b raced by tho the Church with the tue ideA Id III In view of ot erecting an another another other building for tor the Saints group The site la Is on III tho the cor col corner corlice lice ner of at East Temple and und North Temple streets t When Newel K 1 first firM presiding nt hup of ot the tho Church In Utah tanh arrived here hero In ms he hI h took possession pOS of oC that corner 7 C built an nn adobe house In the rear roar of or the one which hUll hue Just JUI been hen torn A t few Ce yearn ago ngo thre a boy bo living within a of ut from tram six to eighteen blocks that know tho Lh mid ImI of or mill on oa North i Kant East 1 Temple and State where j Ihl hours among amon the hundred of wicks socks of nt Hour Marked there It un was essential cs that I the till miller should not observe tho the pres presence 1111 ence of ot the kids for ro or the sake onke of the thc kids lout Hut even pen were WEt his hili watchful I C eluded elu d there her was wu another danger changer doing ning home covered from Cram rota head henel to toot Cool with the he foul which nt It every step guy n a 1 boy ho the I appearance of or a it steam strain engine exhausting Its II surplus was ivas 1111 rather an nn ominous undertaking The mill was sias III erected In iii by hy hyl Francis l Armstrong and aimi was ins taIled called the th Pioneer Plon CI Patent 11 Flour Holler Mill Af tf After C CI her ter I r Its lis completion Mr Armstrong tron In Invited Elms Morris Taylor raylor and Horn Hornney fey ney ne to 10 become partners and they did HO Shortly after aCter this Taylor Rom nom Into a storehouse and ami has not nol been operated since Mince It lt haw hlll now IIO been heen torn down by 11 Dahl Dald Keith who secured tho the property properly under undera r a 11 mortgage during the panic of 1893 and a uno new building will wilt go O up on the old oil tilts Bite at It same future date The Pioneer was waa originally occupied by b a gristmill rl built by lieber lIe r rL C L It 11 woo was W II the he second one In Inthe inthe the tho state President Youngs mill at Liberty park having preceded It by n so short period and It Is IH often soul said that President started tho the plant to 10 keep his hI family from frono hunger the facil llie of ot the diy being so RO limited It was operated by water power The Tho Joseph A Young oung house hOUlle which stool Mood next to the Alta Altu club on oh o State street ant which nan has b en pointed out to 10 o tourists for tor many runny years as a II atypical atypical typical Mormon home tins hits been belli torn tern down to 10 make room for or the tie Packard library It was erected In 1867 or 1861 1561 by h Joseph A eldest son Ion of or I ILL j w j jc 4 c rT i 2 t S t fl I Z Zt c I t 5 r 4 I 1 i iI I c I t l Ii I 4 tv ii S ij j J J S SC C J fr S J 1 J 1 4 r c u r iI I ia f TT IIi 1 1 H lI rIH i I H I 1 H l H 1 H HH I Ii IH Ii HI III 11 H F Fl TUB l I 11 OLD OW lIo I tOM tI Orice co Owned by Newel K Whitney I I f l c I I down lown and Ind there he lived until hll lii death In n I O Two years yearn later 52 tho house In time the front of ot tho lot atm Im m mediately t ly on the tho corner cornel was wan 08 put pitt up tip for tor or Whitneys widow II both bh thi Ann Ammo In and her two sons She Bhe oc oe occupied It until her death In lathe days clays It t was let out on rental John ton Ion on was n a tenant t for tor several years At Jl the limo timo It was wall put up liP the corner house hOlse was ns considered a n very comfort comfortable able nub place It was waa ono one on and n a half stories high ney n and Armstrong withdrew leaving cavIn Morris In control of ot the tho lr prop property erty Ho 10 ut mit once onte Improved the plant putting In an nn elevator of thousands of oC tons capacity and the mill was wall run along In itt 1892 when the Inter was tins organ organised nn being bhag of bC nil all the till mills In Salt Halt Lake county count The Tho others having water power POI I tho the Pioneer was operated operate by hi h steam It was the least kast profitable plant of ot ho tho system It was decided to convert It Young Youn and father of o Major n It W V Young Toting who had purchased tho the entire corner ornel front from Wells ehla Mr Young Voting had always planned a I tent rent residence on the that corner where the Alta Alia club now hut he died In 1875 before bore carrying out his hili lit purpose Until his hie death he ho lived hived there hero with his Ills family tu I The rime property finally filially came caine Into the he hands of at Spencer Clawson and was 1111 his hili hl home for tor many years It was 18 sold oId by b bhim him to John Q Packard kari 11 1 i i f i I d I T r L I i IY i 4 0 i fv 1 I r I t li I m 1 ii t 11 t I II I ij F LJ 1 I 1 1 i I 1 2 r w I p 11 4 i I 4 14 I I t 4 ET e I Photo by Harry PACKARD WILL UR liE most moot altogether the tho survivors front from the day when the custom ivits sanctioned by ho he Church both loth In theory and foot fact footMen Men Mon who vho hind had grown used uBel to a n plural pluralIty Ity of wives up to USO 1800 were not likely to tl be bo fattened satisfied with monogamy In Ito 1 and one of at the tho first drat acts of the Utah legislature ture elected l and controlled by b Mormon vot votes was as to all children born of or plural ROS up to January 1 I lEW Time The deduction tSaM va n palpable that there were vere still lUll some stal stalwarts tal warts who clung to the patriarchal YH tern em Hut But t there In Is no care cape on record rC of t Plural marriages being contracted since silice mo and amid II lid I J think one mat may take It II virtu virtually ally for granted gran tel that the vigor rigor of or tho the government tho the prohibition of oC the tho Church the pressure of chill and competition and above all the of the custom tiara have now noi no killed It now HOW I And nd yet ret et thrives It h Is I today tOIl II ut a n a relatively faster uHler rate both In III numbers and power unto than any on Church In the United Stated Slates and on none of or Its even yen begins lo to com compare pare with It In vigor and ond practical al Its Hit more moro than mIssIonaries are arc preaching UH Its doctrines every day of at atthe the year In nil all civilized end and with persistent and Increasing success traveling aa ns did the ancient Apostles without purse or scrip multi and at their own expense Its expansion lon ha has hall overflowed Utah Itah sad and spread Into Idaho Arizona A Wyoming Colorado Oregon Bud and amid even In anada Mexico and Japan It absolutely controls the polities politics of or one state Mate and unit powerfully swaya the tho politics of or tour four others and Its lis corporate wealth If IC would entitle It to rank croak with tho the moat flourishing nourishing trusts In the country cou a try Polygamy obviously can nn have had but little to do with lIh Much results as III these The Thu truth Is IH that In III Mormon MormonIsm lain Ism we lire not dealing with n ft party pirty of Impracticable fanatIcS hilt but with tho he brains brawn and capital of u a I vast aRt business U organization that owes oell Its itt co cohesIve U power poorer to 10 religion anti and devotes IU united u energies not hot only to tho the to the material betterment nC of nn tn H That convert l to o Mor Moe tony nay bp tat b sure pot of or so SIJ J cu In he hie world to o come but of no so hero here and how liow It Jf hd M hi for to I ddt d Is III given noi A It itono hilt but n IL jJ I Mj af IW l 1 T Tab TabI a d the tho army rm and navy stores Mares rolled roll one on and its BO 10 long Ion Ioni i Hoy k ti nm anI In hi Industrious have at once the thc consolations and stimulus ot of religIon and the cef ce taint or three meals 0 n day dumy COLONIZATION AND TION What Ial the he Salvation Army Is doIng on ona fit fitA a A L small scale In Colorado California I and Ohio that is lag IIII on a I large scale What fall fail ed ell to accomplish at City Mor More Mormonism Mormonism monism has hns succeeded In accomplish accomplishIng h hIng Ing lag wherever It U has hall set its foot Coot The Tho policy of ot Mormonism In a 1 word is la colonization Its method cooperation Fifty years of or prosper prosperity ity It have proved that combination to be ho bea hoa a 8 winning whammIng one Joseph Smith sup eup supplied supplied plied piled Mormonism with Its Ita faith Young mapped out H its colon colonization policy developed Its III economic system and laid Its Ita material foundations foundations Young was nn son instinctive empire builder He lie was tho the first American to grasp the tho possibilities of ot an au arid region under Irrigation Ho He placed waste la lot labor 11 bor bar upon waste land by means of o waste fervor In hIs hla case and out ou of or this trinity of oC waste ho dIll dis distilled tilled d tho the unity of production No ono one understood better than ho lie the tha relation between surplus people In one part of ot tho the country countr and surplus land In another er or r An excellent Judge of or soil Roll month and water supply ho he led his followers Into the t o win acres front from the thede de desert delort ort There Thero was Wall only ono one way In to which a hand band of or poor men whoso capi capitel tel was their faith and Industry could tackle up sQ gigantic a ra task tuk That way was wan cooperation If It the colonial office wishes wisheR to tl learn the secret of at settling Fettling and developing a anew anew I Inow new now country countr It cannot do IS better tItan than study Kludy Brigham Youngs of ot Utah In the tho forties The principles he acted upon nrc stilt Mill tho tIme principles of the Mormon Church A new convert Is IR immediately Introduced to tIme the ad nIl advantages advantages vantages of or cooperation Ho lie him has tIme the benefit of ot the tho advice of ot limo tho elders In choosing a to place pin of or he lie tarts starts with nil alt the tho conveniences ll of a n neighborhood with Mormon schools cooperative stores Irrigation canals ca nab and amusements all around him ho he Is IR Isa IsIL a IL 1 member of or n a 1 colossal eulo labor bor and so RO long bong as us ho he Is willing wilting to 10 work vork ploys pays PI II his hili tithes tithe regularly and faithful to tho the organization poverty be he becomes becomes comes Impossible A GREAT aREAl COMMERCIAL CO The Tho Mormon hurch Church has organised anti and l dIrects great mercantile Institutions institutions factories engaged In III producing the tho staples of at life railroads power plants plant 1 commercial and saving banks 1 Implement warehouses coal cual mints mInes Pleasure retorts resorts educational Institutes book stores dally daIly dal newspapers all allon on cooperative plan pion Tho The Dions Ivo Ivr Mercantile Institution a 11 huge lingo department in III Suit Knit Lake Lako City line has r I capital of ot It Its stock stork li is at CO GO per cent c above par and Its annual soles sules amount to The shares of or the Utah Sugar HU lr Mormon enterprise with a n capital of at sell at lit more than titan 50 O per cent premium and Ind yield a 1 dividend of or 12 per cent rent per annum and the company compan produces yearly r over pounds of ot I A j Mormon Momon salt Halt company c supplies the tho Rocky Mountain ami Pacific Coast Const districts with most mORt of at tho the salt used n a Mormon wagon and ond machine com om company palsy pany with n so capital of or over furnishes nearly nl nil tho agricultural Im mo Implements required throughout the th name HI 1110 region i n to Mormon savings s bank and trust company a larger deposit than all the other othel 24 Institutions ti ne of or Utah combined n a Mormon light power company supplies Salt Bait Lake Lako City with electric bight and time fur furnishes power for far Its Ita tramway system f Mormon theaters theater livestock Ie lee llin bc companies colleges cOllege Irrigation canals alSt and newspapers all all Ito In 5 the Ulu great Kreut crash of 1893 not 1 It Ion wont went t to tho In I 1897 oUt ot farms Ito In Utah 17 li S w re absolutely free treo of I In IWO 1000 60 GO per cent ot of t to tho dweller in n the time towns of at Utah anti and 81 tOt per cent In tn ho time country owned Domed I their own OIl homes and farms |
