Show PIONEER DAY AT PROVO 0 the fortieth anniversary of the entrance of the pioneers into the valley of the great salt lake was commemorated with appropriate services in the stake tabernacle at pro provo 0 the choir rendered soul stirring music and prayer was offered by chaplain W H Brim bumball ball president A 0 smoot spoke on behalf of the pioneers he said that forty years ago he was waa not with the the pioneers but was close behl behind n d them forty years ago en july about one in the afternoon the pioneers entered the valley ol of the great salt lake through what to is known as emigration cablon crossing tile the big mountain and down the little mountain and add through the cation canon into the great salt lake valley and that evening there was a speech delivered by president brigham young on the present site of the temple there is a great deal of important work attached to the entrance of the pioneers into this goodly land the lord revealed to joseph smith some lew few years prior to the saints leaving nauvoo that they a would find a resting cresting place in the tar let distant west a region at that time unexplored and unknown joseph made the attempt to come to this landi land but he was not permitted to leave the vicinity of nauvoo be started with a few of the authorities to cross the mis sis sippi river and located in the bluffs of iowa he pitched his bis tent there and while in preparation to start burt there were a number of saints and leaders in israel who followed him to his camp and besought him to return to nauvoo I 1 t some accused him of being a coward and he turned to nauvoo and waa mar byred alter his death president young carried out the pro gramme at council bluffs in what was then the territory of iowa they stopped for winter and called the place winter 0 quarters barters uart ers the government of the united lulled states finding that there was a body of men in the wilderness not knowing whither they were going sent an officer to visit them and raise ain from their midst soldiers of the strength of ef their camp president you young at t once called upon the camp au and d furnished the men who were sent to fight with mexico they lett their families in the land of t their enemies as emigrants rants to cross a trackless desert even driven from their homes leaving their beautiful city of nauvoo and all at i the mercy of their ruthless foes toe the 1 saints traveled across the pains plains in the path joseph had marked marke out in the spring of 1847 they left winter omaha quarters barters uart ers near what is now the city of omaha and made theirl way like abraham of old not knowing where they would stop they contemplated settling in upper california or oregon on the of july 1847 1347 the great salt lake was reached the people arrived there and from that time to the resent it thas has been a day the L latter atter 5 day ay saints have taken pride in celebrating the speaker told of the early hardships the failure of crops the barrenness of the soil the crickets and the difficulties that lad had to be surmounted and how god had bad blessed his people and brought them peace he had bad overruled everything for the good of the saints and he would continue to rule for the good of israel god would preserve them in the future as in the past and multiply them in the land bishop M tanner a member of the mormon batalion Batt lion recounted the principal features of the memorable trip made by them JR sang the song of the pioneers eA 11 john B milner delivered the oration B R T thomas spoke in bew behalf of the early settlers touts toasts and sentiments and singing completed the exercises at the conclusion of which the assemblage dispersed |