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Show - ' AS, I m THE DESERET- - NEWS Development of Whole West 1 ): , , healthful Cities From Ohio To California Owe Origins to Mormons 1 t i. fur Ibe brief span of a few iiuunenU to llie tenturj's work of these religious peoples in a ein, f(lie colonization of the deerl wastes human struggles It is a momentous diaina of portentous to reiew the r) Jliat ia. unfolded as we lurn life p ages of wuis! of these great empire builders. from thvir home. out-- , caht in a mranjee and unfrndJ j Jjnn morlJ. th v found d new common- wealth while xiill in the middle et. only to have them torn, down wtihin a few year. Again thru-- t from the fcanctuaiy of their u"p VnihTnreh b MPr History is replete with examples a religious people being k into closer bonus of un.t and ship under perseeulion, but since the dawn of civllixalfon there ha been no more .worthy example of tne let of faiib a divine Brov- ldrnce thaw is afforded b, these ktn-(t- ' bv many other eminent hut or 4,01 a tairiy is:-o- f ian, af(ord ,h wf.ctory background for studying ,1, 0, uic Mormon people n f0ionlMtlon, j lhsa f!eU ,heir ork ma, ih()U ,mong ,he great factors 1ar)Tjr.tt served to explore end open up the WMtn wuderne. Mormon people. j This work deals primarily with Probably the only approaching. the colonization after the arrival of parallel tsi found In the sailinghad-t- o'of the first trslns of emigrants ,k Great Salt Lake valley but Pilgrims blit whero they (he charted seas and the friendly, any survey qhtcb would adequatelj Mor-the shores of s pamt the picture of their actuevo-mo- n people-iwe- re confronted wiih,,.n,j jn this field must be pre-th- e end forbidding ceded by a brief sketch of their almosctiiracklef wases of the desert. j work before arrival in this mouoj tamoua region. Sturdy Character. Went to Missouri, is built As sturdy character through conflict and in famng j TOrae earlier labors may severe trials, so the souls of these hai, performed the Mormon , founders of ne'w settlement were (im gain recognition as col- , persecu strengthened by the very in the work started lion through which unfriendly fore-fo- r 1,3 . when the Prophet cs attempted to destroy them. They ; d Smith and a small body of Ihe tet of fre and sword ioweis left Kirtland. Ohio, aa uiis- were not found lacking. onane and proceeded . to what Kather In theao persecutions the leaders saw the guiding hand uf was then ihe metern boundary of God preparing them for some- - j the I nited States, They went to Jackson county thing finer, something bigger to come and in the light of their lat-- J Missouri, and began colonizing east re- -; of where Kansas can who ter accomplishments City now stands, lute the correctness of their judg- - Thls settlement was unique for the menu Supported by a sublime fsitn fact lhat the Mormon people n a Just and farseelng God "'ey! came the first farmers in a slave entrusted the store of life Into libr holding state, who did use slave keeping willing to make the su-to labor. preme Mcrlf.ee tf necessary In-- V 1 ! j J. fol-an- ! oe-i- i nt . 11 rV I I' Anglo-Saxo- Anglo-Saxo- te Mor-hem- V1' .T'" fv e i - - mouo-taino- Anglo-Saxo- Anglo-Saxo- oa the tch of the shaded areas on the map shows one place where the Latter-da- y Saints cob mixed with a view of building up permanent settlements. These settlements reach from tlic MlMdseippI river to, the Pacific coast, and even include colonics in Canada and Mexico. vcttiemcnls of Palmyra IPayeon) places grist and saw mills were) Implements valued at $84 JS8. Paragoonah and a- number pf built before tho clow of. 1887. In At tho close of 1&&2 the popq-- v ethers. J March 1851, a wool mill was start- - lotion bad grown lo 25,009 or 30. The foundation for a state cap-- ! 1 d in the city and at Parowan OOO cf hom 10 Oogvere in the Hot was laid out in Fillmore inland Odar'City an iron works was cilv proper and the asesd valthe! October 1851, and during uation had reached $1,169 183. &0 being built. same year the colonization began j A tannery had beeB established or more tharr $400 per capita. extending beyond what arc now at' Paragoonah and in Sait Lake To Oregon and Idaho. tho state lines of Ptah. tlnn City factories making Yet the expansion continued In March of 1851. a company neU. jeans, pottery and was organized and dispatched to cutlery.hns). of which sold at lower into new territory. In 19S3 a col bai was sent 490 miles into California to settle ony the Cajon rii-than were aked for extwas then Oregon and there was Pass and there cultivate ern yond of an fnf nor grade, branch a on founded settlement a fruits and the settlement Under the sound advice of of San Bernardino resulted. ' ham Young to produce whatBng th of the Salmon rher thereby bring- Carson valley, Nevada had been people consumed, the supply of ing to the Mormon settler the n home discovered by some of the manufacture continued honor of being Ihe f,r Battalion members in return- growing and supplied the great Hera in the state of Idaho. This ing from the coast and in 1851 bulk of the , people needs de settlement was broken up in 1858 the first Mormon settlers moved spite the rapid growth in popula- - but two years later the town J( Ini e this am 4w fe on A (k- - fi Franklin was established and the Saints retained the honot The first whits farming settle-a- i ment In Wyoming was established m - 11 semi-tropic- al Mor-mo- 11 f holster Pistoi, each man rnun have an spade, shovel. hc, gun and trulurd,rounrf; of ammunition palrs-o- GjJ-flmn- I?..nrnd ZlZiUK 16 "As "moI busheo, seewhML K .1 once to eetahbsb axe.i 20r n It was not until 1871 that the colonization of that state was started on an extensive scale and during the next few years there was established Brigham City; Su Obed and 8L Joseph, the last named still In 1878 a party left Nph! and settled In Phoenix, some of them continuing south lnfA Mexico. was founded by the Mormons In 1881 end Mesa in 1878. lew Frontier Aspects, u By thUGm much of the region had load many of lu pioneering characteristics. Th greatest task had been accomplished with the spanning of tha desert stretches with a series of settlements that afforded sources of n supply as the outposts of dviluaUon continued to be extended. 4 The coming of the railroad in th early seventies, tha laying out of roads with the bridging- - of streams, diversification of agriculture. th building of a bigger commerce extending beyond the Settlements these were all factors tn building up the empire of today and all of them were made possible by the colonisation of those early Mormon pioneers. But there is added significance in their settlements as theao sturdy n people played a vital part In bringing to the Uulted State the great western , domain that were Spanish possessions, .c The Spanish people and Spain lost their hold on these great dominions when they failed ta the colonization of the area and this colonization by the Anglo-Sazpeoples end particularly the Mormon pioneers was indirectly th cause of the possessions passing to I'niied n " con-i,0- Jr -- wf"...1 exodus fame and. they UP t3,e trait to the flat lauds lying adjacent to the Missouri rtv-- J er in Clay county. Here again the spirit of cooperation and unity or purpose builded well for three years when the Saints were again Jxnini forced o migrate 4o avoid serious Though forced by dent of Ci- trouble. nemedic rcumstance to tak. up e elate for some year, these people! Prove Value of Prairie. were essentially , a home loving, j The open prairie country some 1 peaceful God fearing folk, a p 80 mile noriheaat of Liberty, Caldlhat even today makes up the very wa the next scene of backbone and sinew of civilization well county, I When forced to migrate" or tbelr labor end here their thrift when voluntarily taking Up the ex- and energy soon disproved th popwas pansion of their new empire In ular theory that the prairie soil the mountains thorn hardy people valueless.' Settlement took with them their families, pregrew from about pared as well aa might be to stake 1200 to nearly a many thousand new out new homsteads. "to build people, the largest being called Far settlements, to erect new temple West. in tha wilderness. At about the same time anTh spur to their treks was not other group was pioneering In Ohio adnor exploration, prospecting near wherq the city ot Cleveland venture hut colonization and now standa In 1121 a email band they adhered to this sin- located there and soon built up a wrought gle minded principle and tor th wherever they ""camped any community of 1500 but Inth1888other to Join length of time the beginning it majority invacated Missouri and with about colonies great cities and new empires. 18 000 other Faints they took up V. S. Indebted to Them. tl.o general migration from that Comparallvoty . few people stats about one year later. realize and fewer mill acknowlAbout 209 miles east of where edge (lie Indebtedness the Quincy. Illinois nbw stands, they I niied Mates owes lo those ot settlement the established Mormon pioneer, in the setlands from Commerce, acquired tlemen! ami colonization of the bebad who some of the settlers great western empire of today come discouraged because of un- yet M was lltese people wbo the westward march, not inspired h t by love of gold nor lust for as ot.mra hkd been but in ; queat where Search ot eanctuarv they' might dwell in peare th-- and build r Umplea iu worship ot j' e ,or the t menu nx Training Provided. These earlier trials undoubtedly gave the Mormon people the necessary stamina and training needed for the bigger work lo come and It was. a weil organized and effluent body of home seekers that took up the big exodus to the west. to ftr"f crossing the Mississippi found the ton of Garden Grove, Mt. Bisgsh. Kaneevilie (now Coun- th Bluff and several towns in .oufnsvestern Iowa. To the Mormon pioneers goes the credit of being the founders In many parts of lows but the trek had only begun and save for the recruiting of the Mormon Battalion some historians believe tne Kocky Mountains would have been settled one year sooner. When these 80 men left the malm-bod- y the remainder found I. necessary lo locate at Winter dual ne renamed wTiere they became the first while settlers In Nebraska. They also took a prominent part In founding Ihe clly ot Omaha. When th Mormon Battalion left in! July. IKS, It was accompanied to Santa Fe, New Mexico, by a number 6f families and having the battalion at the old Spanish settle- ment they proceeded north along : the Arkansas river into Coloreqo to if mIn chT..T. cherish gfbfP become the first But the impelling motive of tiers in that Mate. these people 4o expand their emCamp Near Pueblo. pire did not rest for j.ng and as The winter camp was" made near early as 1847 Juat a short tim aftPueblo where they Joined a er thetr arrival small group startThe party of Samta that had stopped ed laying out settlements. main thought of ail their coloniztheir western migration. we home. Thia was the The etop at Pueblo was short but ing the home instincts ot these economic, social, ethical and center and because led them aid to people later colonizations by- - building imon Pioneers built their brold religious" principles home before taking up the trail ipon mai'" b11" again in the spring and summer of 0 1847 to Join the main migration . , 1,1 ,h into the Great Halt Lake valley. ,hAdd 1. of God was their During thl. ptrlod ano!h'r common sense in for preparing mki. of Mormon was making ,htlr Lake outof Salt journe, Part I lth essentia f,he'C1,y worWflTat Played an every facility Important for estblihlnr a new common-part in founding this great western wealth and because of these they domain succeeded where others had failOn the very day, In February. ed 1848, when the exodus was made A notice published in the Dee from Nauvoo. 7J0 Faints, principal- eref New s as 1S.: early as Nov. ly farmers from the New Englana lsS0 illustrates the thoroughness states, left New York on the ship with which every safeguard to Brooklyn and after rounding Cape successful colonization Was cared. " they 0 y across the unexplored section of the continent and here a half-wa- y bouse no the Paoeiween the Missouri cific coast thereby making the trip across the continent one ol comparative ease. How successfully those early pioneers founded is also attested by tnla same writer who tells of ar-- 1 Iving tn ihe valley en route to California in 1848. The whole country for mile was in cultivation, he wrote. Fields of yellow wheat and Indian corn, potatoes. oat. and aU kind of garden vegetables were growing in abundance.. but to thia author tho etrangeat eight of all was tho great city extending over several miles, aft built and settled within nine or ten months before his arrival. L ads AcemnpUaiuncot. To film thl settlement was one of tho greafedt prodigies of the ago and in comparison with it wt gigantic of all re,h publics tn existence, being only In Us second year and he foresaw the .development that was forecast for he wrote; The Mormons are not nor is their spirit broken. dead, And If I mistake not there Is a noble daring, stem and democratic spirit welling in their bosoms, which will there mountains with a people raro of Independent men and Influence the destiny of unr country and the world for hundred generations. In their religion they seem charitable, devoted and sincere; tn their polttics bold, dar.ng and determined; ! their domestic cir-tt-e. quiet, affectionate and happy, while In Industry, skill and Intelligence they have few equals and no superiors on rarth." it is a unique tribute to the Mor- - x v-- j Ip! us lurn ."nccen'eated'' conditions and by dint of drainage and sanitation methods they, built here in six years the ebautlful temple city of Jtauvoo with s.populatioa of 80.000 people. A.MJjiow ?d',U' JSATURDAY DECEMBER 21 1929 LAKE half-wa- L D. S. Colonization Started ' SALT , . At Tooele and oSr.r otW j several and on whi h th-- U,h 'rm early as 1652 the Mormon people began colonizing in Arizona and near the Spanish Pueblo of had farm Tubac they established (hot first States present day but lest the great progress made by these people In he advancement of world empire escape us. let ua review briefly a few significant fact of the Church and its people today. The Mormon church now num-babout 850,000 aouls located throughout the United States and in .Armenia, Australia, Great Britain. Canada. Denmark, France. Ger. many .Austria. Hawaii. Jfegico. New Zealand. Norway.-Samoa- n Islands. South Africa. South America. Sweden. Switzerland and Tahiti. a Tentplea have been erected In City; Alberta. Mea. Arizona; Hawaiian Canada; Islands: Ixtgan lt;ih. Manti. Utah and S George, Utah, Church schools accommodating 3 800 student maintained at Provo, St. Georire, EPhretm, Ogden and Salt Lake City. Halt and Thatcher, Arizona; Chihuahua. Mexico and Rexhure. Idaho. In addition the Church Is maintaining seminaries in 74 cities in l tah. Idaho. Ansona. Wyontln and Colorado, haring an enrollment of about 12.500 students Fully 70 per cent of the Mormon people living In organized stakes "X n their own homes. are 938 ward organizations There ard more than this number of buildings have been acquired to serve as meeting houses and balls of these ward, organizations er -- ' valley that now em braces several of the moat g fountie of the Golden atate. Outstrip Prrdcmutor, The following jear they founded Bancroft in hi History of Utah tho settlement of New Hope, build- declares that thus equipped and their ing some log house and seeding selected fhe settlers with about 80 acres of and before and thrift made morj prog, y flic tinning it to join the main body of reaa than the Spaniards in .lie emigrant, in Bait Lake. garden tpot of Mexico or the Other Chrlwma News articles' English in the more favored rpotx will deal with the arrival of thelon Ihe Atlantic seaboard, pioneer In the Great Balt Lake! In these bands of pioneers which laiiey. Suffice it here that Just had treked over the plains were two days after the advance detach- - many of Ihe best European had firat sighted the valley tisans, worker in wood. iron, wool these empme builders began laying and cotton, so there was no dearth ths foundation for their new do-'ma'erlal from which to draw. man- - On thl day the first furrow! Under the inspired ieaderthip of of soil was turned over the land that great pioneer. Brigham Young to soften it for planting and by thl these exiled- - people founded In act there was brought to the Amer-ifethat years a commonwealth lean continent the first attempt of had taken generations to huhd to n an tn peoyiU mca comparable Tr Irrigation. (of the woHd. In this al!y the colonizing work! In these vallcjg the pioneer lead-o- f these people found Its greatest cr raw a haen for the Mormon expression. Here they were to reap people where there might be inthe benefits of the painful experi- cluded under a single goiernment ences gained in other field from all the drainage of not only the which so many had been forcibly Great Salt but th Colorado ejected and it i. doubtful whether river drainage Tfom Montana to without that preparation they Mrxieo between 1h Continental would have enabled to with- divide and th hierra Nevada stand the rigors of the first year rarges and he .started on a tremendous program at once toward Established Kecord. Isolated, poor, having brought Its settlement and subjugation Utile or nothing with them, these Expansion Bogina. first eel tiers were dependent for In 1848 thia great expansion tho necessities and comforti of life started and as if by magic new on thetr own resources and yet It Is settlements began to appear where-eve- r difficult if not impoasihie to find there waa a 'body of fresh a parallel in history where mor. water amllabii to supply neeaTTor was done in so short a period. irrigation and culinary purpose Beginning almost before the dust During the first year the settlehad settled from their caravans ments of Centerville (Bountiful). ih.se settlers began laying the Brownstiile at the Junction of the foundation of the great intermoun-ta- Oyden and Weber river and some empire of tod.iv. colonization In the southern part There was hulit the Old Fort at Sanpete valley were undertaken what is now Pioneer Bquare and of In 1843 there followed Fort Utah this served as a winter haven for mar the Provo river, further colthe 1,800 people who crossed the onization in Sanpete county the plain during the first yer. at beginning of a settlement What with irrigating and tilling Tooele and the founding of Kajs-viitthe ,un baked soil that had lain for undisturbed, in 1850 the present city rf Ogand hauling timber, making cutting adobes laid out. to be followed and erecting homes and other aden was later with the settlement! year the lbi'ildings, pioneers had a busy- of North Ogden or Ogden Hole,! season before winter should close as It was then called and Into In on them. What if somef the thes communities the influx of( crops did not mature before the population was so, papld and the , kiiing frosts came, the green colonization so .successful that U Liades and generous foliage proved wa made a stake of the Church In tho fertility of the soil. 1851. Achieved Mmh. The same year saw the estabHow well they performed the lishment of ProvO and within one ear it began to assume the ap-- : is stupendous task wsll attested on of the ladsrii Wilford Wood-by pearance of a village with some y Battle! stores 8nd manufjctures. ruff who wrote: Pleasant Grovel.j Crack (later e (touiiriislird more Amerkan Fork Parowan, were (his year than can hr found on in the same year. 1850. mriRl concerning an equal founded v number of men In the same Migration Aids Colonic. lime since Adam. the estabAs word It? had traveled mere than lishment ofwentjutot the Mormon miles over some of the rough- - tn the mountain valleys the people Influx ej roulntry on the American t. of the Saints 'continued to grow) had successfully treked o'er and with it the demand for nee tbs desert wastes, laid out a city scenes Of conquest. iwo miles square, built a fort of In less than two years after the, ha vr timber, planted 1$ acres, all arrival of the first emigrants the; r dosed In. Influx had become so great that; The s!xn4ficance their work a the population was greater lo Pi? in colonization of ths wes- than city could be supported in comtern empire, was even greater. fort on the city lot and land1 One historian writing In the New nearby. Instead of adding suburb York Tribune under date of July to suburb the Church leaders bad $. 1349. draws a contrast between ordered parties into new fields for the rdpnmpf d4ne along thefcA't-lantl- e settlement. seahoafd since the founding Thu In 1851 pew settlements of Jamstnwn In 1607 and the appeared and during this of the Mormons to gait Evansville t Lehigh cr Lehlf. yari. Fillmore. Brigham Crty. Wilj With this srrand !ap he points! lard. and Cedar City were founded ouv the Mormon to be followed Jn 185! with the pioneer Jumped) t flour-Wlun- abn-ienerg- n.3DKDN(E FIRWARY rri 1 angio-gaxo- ke en l ) Specific Things' The Deseret Gymnasium Can Do For Men and Boys No institution can do everything for any one hut the Te-er- et Gwnnaaium can do something for moat men and boji Here are a few specific things it can do for tnen: 1 It '.can furnish them with the best of associates ; 2 It will cultivate the play instinct in them ; 3 It can help them to solve their problems by forgetting them for the time being; 4 It can build up their reserve, which is the armor of defense against disease and' disorders ; It can make their blood run strong and fast and brush the cobwebs from their minds; In short it can promote the natural processes of health buildingr habituate them in health practices which will add years to their lives and life to their . , years." 5-- . 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