Show of privations which the me first settlers settler endured and to them should be accorded a major part 0 of the credit for utah of today it is indeed fitting that they should be remembered once a year and their deeds recounted to the rising generation that the spirit 0 of the rathers fathers might re be transmitted with just as much force as possible to the children their deeds have immortalized their names and the greater number ot of them have laid down the implements of labor and gone to a 0 well earned rest what the pioneers of the state did the pioneers of every new settlement repeated and the noble band which came to brigham city and box elder county passed through the same hard bard times fought the Ind indians lans and unflinchingly struggled on laying deep the foundation of the commonwealth and stamping the imprints of their toll toil on every side we who vho aho reside here today owe them much it should be au an h honor onor to commemorate their lives and remember their deeds A fund has at last been started for the he erection of a monument to their memory that fund should have no prejudice to overcome in its growth but citizens generally should deem it a privilege to contribute to it and make it of such proportions that a suitable memorial can be erected that will fittingly reflect the lives and labors of the men and women who pioneered this community and that will throughout time be a credit to the city and those who shall erect it |