| Show ihu PHU 71 PROVO nov novi 1 1873 the train with about one otie hundred dred persons arons left the depot at salt lake lae city cly at a quarter eight lit ailt hild and reachel p Provo r ovo jab jat at tw twenty en t Y minutes to eleven there was 1 a 1 concourse of several thousand ped peo pie pio at the depot 1 ot in lif pra prevo vo including tl ie mayor the klip civil ovil and religious authie authorities it PC nud and utah 7 r I 1 1 county counts i the first g in in the tile city ftc Hons rons n 8 Wm jemil Jewil jennings anel anil W ve H hooper 4 F little tittle send find theo thoo 0 merean mckean esis esq fil ssi bishops shops hunter sheets and tx td 1 woolley Woo illey and abarge number of m anjana and many ladies ladles were e ra in in the party tile the pro proceedings bedl ings artt of the 6 celebration opened with music by jy the proad brass and when tho following I 1 addies addre of welcome of mayor mayon B 91 4 moot ot wak was read reah by John johnb 13 hil hll I 1 milner kilner neresa esq I 1 mr president Boar dof dor directors and stockholders ers erg of the tho U S K ra B B t and friends of progress jn in internal internal improvements la ladles ladies dies and gentlemen jt 0 J t is with profound feelings toe too lings of gratitude to the dispenser of all blessings that 1 N I llave have the honor to welcome the iad sad advent of tile the iron horse to our hitherto comparatively isolated elty ity in lit doing so I 1 cannot but commend the energy displayed by ya yoi toi 1 in ill pushing the road to its com to provo during a period of or depression resulting disastrously to so many roads I 1 have personally witnessed thein the in 0 labors and energy of zour construction agent and his very efficient corps of assistants and workmen whose labors have been highly commendable i on n behalf of the citizens of i provo v 0 as us ita its executive of floer officer 1 I t tender rod n r you our congratulations and a thanks that our city is now linked by bands of iron to the metropolis of cof our territory and the leh lei leading ing cities of the nation and that eliat the agency of steam produced from the two devouring elements by the jhb hand of science the distance distance between us in point of time is materially lessened anid arid as our intercourse with each other will necessarily increase and our conner clai cial relations lons be more tuly fully dOvOlO developed ped POd it is reasonable to hope that our fraternal feelings s with our sister cities will be proportionately increased it is pleasing to notice thattie th that atthe the other end of yonder rail painting southward as hs gith with the 11 ner nger of prophecy indicates that at no lio distant day the southern cities 1 towns and villager eq of bur bar territory will enjoy the blessings we have now met tb to ce celebrate celebia lebra te and that the whole of tho the setti settlements a eats of our spread territory will very shortly be brought into closer proximity nty uly Uty L ladies ladles lles lies and awl gentlemen per por permit mit me 1110 to 0 of ommer offer f er you a hearty welcome i I 1 music ausle by the tho th e brass bands followed by this speech by hon geo A smith mr nir mayor citizens of provo and lutah utah county generally we thank you in behalf of the president directors stockholders and employees pio plo pees of the utah southern for t the he kind sentiments and arld liberal views you have expressed and the hearty welcome which is extended to us on the present occasion by the appearance of or such a vast number of persons and the rich and glowing sentiments expressed we thank you all forvour kindness and the exertions on this occasion and 1 ho the mayor and the inhabitants tants of provo and atall county generally we express our thanks and gratitude for the efficient manner in which they have contributed their aid and the efforts of our neighbors and we are exceedingly thankful that we have been enabled under adverse circumstances to aleorn accomplish this purpose wh which ch in accordance cor dance with the sentiments expressed by your honorable mayor will evidently and in a short tim time we hope extend south and into the southern cities of our territory with the same iron band we are thankful to our heavenly father he delivered us from persecution ion ton from the hart haft is of oes our enemies gave us the these alleys valleys to improve e and inherit bless biess blessed edthe the tho desert land and made it fruitful and blessed the labor of our hands hailds to form connections by telegraph aph and bv railroad i ith tho the rest of mankind with these senti i me ants antl and tile sentiment expressed by your mayor and we arty heartily accord with them farthi sye leome may god gou bless biess you vou jlii jill nil all Ai amen fien musie music after ine ike mc e E oad cad the following OWIng address alide ss by ay 1 president P 11 AND ard FELLOW CITIZENS assembled to lebrato celebrate co the tiie completion of tho utah southern railroads I 1 to th alais is cl city eity ty I 1 glad giad gladly ly j join ol 01 n in your rejo relo rejoicing icings feeling a deep interest in common with wit hyou you sou in the tiie successful progress of a work fraught with so many benefits to the people 1 ir this territory OD I 1 I 1 deem this isa iga a fitting occasion for d r briefly tracing our iro aro progress r reas in tiie tile the grand gnand and and aud steadily leonward ll onward alid and up ivard march or dt praiseworthy improvement lm provement pro yemeni t soon after the organization of the church of jesus jestis chiist chilst of latter day day sal bal saints ints in fayette seneca county state af pf new york oil on the ath of april 1830 with six members the people removed to kirt blurt laud ohio and at affonce once onee began erecting buildings opening sti wets vets preparing to build a temple which they completed resumed the publication li pf af the evenin evelln evening and morning ingster star after the destruction de st ruction of tile the pr printing futin lutin press by a mob in jackson co county anty missouri in 1833 aberi published it under the title of Messen messenger goar and advocate sent missionaries to various Varl vari ofis portions of the tile united states canada tind and E europe drope hounded founded colonies near the western borders of missouri and labored zealously and indefatigably for the welfare wei wel tare mare of mankind until they left their hard earned komes bomes homes in lOrt Kirt larid and the adjacent re gions 1 in 1831 when forming their adt settlements tle ments near the weste western ru borders of upper missouri the saints found a region sparsely settled fettled and but rudely improved and nd with their characteristic love for improvement at once established schools soon superseded the thelio hominy miny block and the grater by mills drib driven by horse and water power published the first number of the evening and morning star in june 1832 then if 1 I rightly remember hen her the tho only newspaper published in missouri missour sour outside of st louis jefferson Jef jei lerson ierson city and booneville bonneville Boo neville published a book entitled the book of commandments mand ments and through unity and industry in every possible and laudable improvement were rapidly acquiring desirable and very commendable surroundings when they were driven into still more sparsely settled adjacent counties where they aga again i n began with untiring patience and unflagging en ergy the improvement ot of themselves their children their few neighbors and arid everything around ih them this course was pursued and und prosperous settlements were dotting the tile prairies as by magic until their expulsion from that stata in 1838 at the time of this expulsion gen clark dark remarked to tho saints you must not be seen here as many as fl nive five ve together if ir you are the citizens will bo be upon you and destroy you must flee immediately out of the state still ho he wished the saints to demain if they would only forsake or discard their religion for said he you are an industrious people you have done more in three years to build up the country and improve it than the old settlers have done in sixteen years after the expulsion from missouri rl their so scattered numbers were gathe gathered red on the left bank of the mississippi river aver at a small town named commerce now nauvoo in illinois in the spring of 1839 and they there again began to exhibit that wonderful unflagging zeal for improvement Inthe in the next five years preceding the mils massacre sacre sacro of the prophet and patriarch J joseph oseph and hyrum smith an extensive city site was laid out large numbers of commodious dwellings were erected the lowlands drained many public edilie edifices s re reared ared the walls of a costly temple raised to the first story numerous schools put in operation a university and other charters obtained and several thou thoa thousands sands of happy and arid industrious people were b tiding up a great and prospero pro wt nty t ty in a locality previously so uli ull eathy as to be shunned hy by all but few jew nev other flourishing set elements were mado made in various vallous cs paria of efhan iran I 1 cock Count county yand and across the niver river in lee leo county iowa and fields orchards ds nocks hocks herds happy homed and ind a peaceful and intelligent people were rapidly adi adding ling to the wealth and strength of our nation during the less than two years next after the massacre of the prophet and patriarch the temple was completed a site selected in the mississippi river for building a dam for manu manufacturing faatu ring purposes and all possible improvements encouraged coura cou raged e d and prosecuted to the u utmost t until the power of religious hi intolerance uee nee turned efforts for continued and increasing inc improvements into preparations for leaving the state ol 01 nois sue such i were wem some of the labors of the saint saints partaking of the spirit zeal and energy of their leader the prophet joseph smith the founder of the great latter iatter day work which the tile lord of hosts has commenced and which he lie viii will watch over for foi good unto its finai final consummation in ill accordance with ai H is divine will in february 1846 1848 the saints began crossing the mississippi river on their way y ail all to 0 hese distant valleys and n making res resting d luz lug p places laces at garden grove and pisgah for those who were to follow where we immediately in mediate Jy provided schoolhouses school houses temporarily using tents for that purpose and filling a requisition I 1 from our government for or men boalo to aid ald in the then war wi alth mexico I 1 c crossed the missouri ouri I 1 riv niver river I 1 er a and nd erected several hundred lo log ghouse houses made many dug outs built aalt a brist gristmill and according to our invariable custom schoolhouses school houses divided the people eople into ward bi bishops shops aj and police and conducted alamat all ail matters for the benefit to tile utmost of a u camp imp at ib its halt hait halt hait in winter quarters now florence on the right banko bank of f the missouri several miles above where now is omaha that year we carried the standard ardef of true civilization to california nl a establishing there the first library and soon began publishing the california star 11 the first newspaper so far as Y I 1 am aware printed on the western slope of the rocky mountains shortly after that date the frontier guardian was published in council bluffs iowa in april 1847 1617 the tile pioneer company numbering men awoden 3 women and 2 children began their journey westward in search of a location where we could serve the lord our god in accordance with his commandments I 1 well remember that when riding ng in advance of that company with my then first counselor heber C kimball and others to search out the route for the wagons to follow we were yere carefully watching for conversing about a route for a railroad across the continent that company reached the present site of salt lake city on the of july 1847 and at once be gan its survey I 1 into nto streets and lots a and id aided by capt james browns detachment from the mormon battalion the erection of a fort for the comfort and security of the families who arrived that season to the number of some persons in 1849 prest george A smith presented presented in the tho 1 legislature of the provisional state of deseret a memorial to congress for the construction of a national railroad to the pacific coast which said legislature adopted in 1852 he presented a like memorial in the legislative assembly af of the territory of utah which was also adopted under the following title memorial to congress for the construction of a gre great at national central railroad to the pacific coast pages 2256 6 of laws of utah published 1852 it is trus teus thus clearly shown that from the time of our leaving the missouri river our attention was drawn to and our influence exercised in favor of an ith inter oceanic railroad and so continued until tho tha completion early early carly in 1869 of thal thai great work the union and central pacific railroad to the construction of which the inhabitants of utah rendered most efficient dent aid few if any hailed the advent telez telegraphic arar alile facilities with more joy than did the people of utah asefi danced by our furnishing and setting some miles of poles for the first overland telegraph line to hasten magnetic communication with the intelligence of the world since the completion of that line the deseret telegraph company has stretched its wires wire 3 to an a aggregate 19 19 re length of 1000 miles connecting all our principal cities towns and mining camps and penetrating rating south eastern nevada northern arizona and southern idaho soon after the completion of the union pacific railroad the people of utah unaided by government grants began the construction of the utah Cen contraband speedily co completed in it between ogden and salt bake luke cities the utah southern designed to connect with the texas pacific was then commenced at the earl eari earliest lest iest practicable date and lias has been prosecuted as rapidly as means and other facilities would permit and weare we are now vow assembled to celebrate the result of this labor we are on the tile point of connection with franklin in the extreme north of oatlie the territory by our own railroads a distance of some miles nearly duo north and hd south with wilh branches to little littie cottonwood cotton wood and bingham canyons in salt lake county and american fork in utah county and the road from echo to the coal beds in summit county to their powerful aid in facilitating travel and aud transportation so necessary to the tile rapid advancement van cement of our agricultural manufacturing mining and all other material interests and we hope to cont continue hitie hilie until tiie tile inhabitants a ants of this beautiful arnt anil thriving cley city eire are in railroad com communication cation catlon with that extensive network net work of roads ramifying our great country from tile the atlantic to the tile pacific and extending into canada and mexico F furnaces furnaces are busily occupied ill in smelting smelling sm elting the rich galena and copper ores so abundant hi iii our mountains having thus briefly sketched a fe few w of the prominent items ot of our history I 1 again refer to the tiie conditions under which our labors h have avo been performed it is true that the angel commis cloned to restore in this our day the falness of the everlasting gospel found joseph but a youth and comparatively unlearned lie he hav but limited opportunities for education in thethel tho the then wilds of western new york but from that date until BO so foully massacred with his brother hyrum in |
