Show THE butak UTAH PIONEERS several of our utah papers are do de voting space apace with more or less ion rege rega larity to the pioneers and their work the NEWS itself has been doing so eo for now well nigh half bait a century and in so 0 o far as such inch matter to af accurate the space pace could scarcely be better e employed mp loyed thom are but few lode lodeen outside of those who participated itt its the settlement of utah who kofl anywhere oear near a tall fall of f what that work cost la in suf feringa oriuM privations discourage discouragement ments hard bard teb r unrequited industry inda atry and impeded perseverance few who grasp the of ef the wrought out of stubborn materials material or the gradual growth of the grand success moo upon soil sell than which none ever bulb sulb ob aed aued and made productive by man was more unwilling but alt all them thee should bould be known and appreciated a much so BO BB as is possible from ilon don placed before them la in cioper form in the shape adape of the of survivors and time literary work ot of those who are in a position to know whereof they write none of the conquests of man in recent times was waa more conw con quentian quent ial to the nation in which it occurred than was the he and peopling of utah it would have been many more years yean betoff the telegraph wire was wa from the frontier to the aftan it there had bad not been a midway osset of civilization in the vast intervening inter venta desert of barbarism and barro and the game ame can be said ald of the pa ft cielo railway to have simply imply kept pace with the advancing frontier would trove have mount meant with the be edgel nearly two thousand thoua and miles apart a work of slow alow growth a task talk the cow COB tomp lation of whose immensity alona alon would have caused its to be deferred many after it Is was wae actually begun began this thin was owing to the be fact that not 2000 wiles milea of BID an unproductive country ran fall of dangers dangere would have to be trover traversed seck and guarded before the protective influences and life giving givin patronage of civilized communities could be felt but less than halt half of it if the pioneers pioneer did not ilae hue must others othen of choir olasa advance beyond the border barder only to keep within hailing distance of those left behind they made a bold stroke for the middle of the be unknown landane lan dand being successful la in reaching it and establishing the thai nucleus at once began to throw out tribu tributaries tributa ries and establish Out pol which also alao grow grew and spread so a that whon when the time for be ginning the work of girdling the continent arrived everything was in readi rea dlce zem to secure acure a successful outcome nearly fifty years yeara have been wound t tal ft taa abe 9 reel of time lime and passed pared into the gulf golf of eternity and what a 2 to IR before ud m wildness hod and sterility bupt be sought bought for to be encountered and then only alter after long and od tedious marches maro hei wherever we turn forn whichever way we go cultivation tion improvement all the means and ends of educated and enlightened high way a and byways by way B bordering on an both aides and all long almog fruitful fields flowering gardens ardear arde Dr happy homes and a progressive and prosperous deop people le the aund sound of the charob going bell fills fille the sabbath morning air where previous to the comparatively brief span epan aomen of the only sounds by man MAD that ver ever cleft the reigning solitude were the war whoops of the avage cavage c but it w v not accomplished without a knighty struggle ruggle it carried on by men who were perlor eu to discourage mento and who it if speculation peculation or adventure had been their guiding impulse would have bave faltered and then fallen back be lom oven even the beginning was halt hall so ac complied oom plied it to Is an easy matter to push forward improvements now BOW easy to tail rail at the An financial ancial depression end and long for the sturn of abush aimeb with their concomitant RODt booms and it if these who so BO engage themselves will thoroughly tore store their midus with what mase who maue male it possible for thereat be rest of us to be here had to u n d deac 0 and contrast aBt such experience with what we are having now DOW there will probably be lose leaa of faultfinding and discontent more of and praise therefore we may lay again that such buch publications publication a as a those spoken of ere are a means of doing good and in ore ways way than one all honor and endless gratitude tr to the tardy bond band of men man and women who penetrated the wilas and wastes which till wen then were undisturbed with solitude Boll tude and barrenness barren neBB the twin holding imperious mid and absolute wa t may the record of their achievement ter remain in a con acutis place among the archives arch ivea oi of th nation and their memory be kept groon wherever truth prevails and justice has haa an abiding place I 1 |