Show TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT WOODRUFF under the heading death of a mor mon pioneer the denver post of monday has this to say editorially editor lally with the death of president woodruff of the mormon church has departed another of the limited number of striking characteristic figures which for half a century have given a distinct tone to the far west the number of pioneers of the west is by no I 1 means so large that the departure of one should not leave a void in their ranks woodruff came from missouri and crossing the western border of civilization with his people went far beyond that border and settled with them I 1 in a desert but they were of the true type of pioneers and it took them no longer than nature required for that purpose to turn the desert into a garden spot capable of sustaining a population many times their number and incidentally proving to the world that the great american desert was fit for something better than a mere merb pasture for the buffalo and a roaming roani ing ground for the indians but for their untiring energy the great salt lake basin would in all probability have remained for many years to come the uninviting desert which they found it they placed over a thousand miles between them and civilization in every direct direction don and everything needed to sustain them they were forced to produce themselves the present resent 15 generation can have no adequate idea of the privations and sufferings these early pioneers of the west had to endure in their endeavor to open up a new country posterity may ma y deal with them more fairly than they have been dealt with by their co temporaries and give them due credit for what they have accomplished while measured by the standa 4 of brigham young president W ru ff had no constructive genius yet he was of the type and temperament to carry on the great work after it had bad been well ell started for this he was perhaps better suited than an abler and more aggressive gres sive man |