| Show I Here State street was opened north from Eagle Gate and wall removed Eagle Gate as built In 1859 Notice City creek flowing under wall left $ I " Eagle Gate enlarged some time after 1891 to permit trolley cars to pass L x The old saw mill which stood on the site now occupied by the Lafayette school Is hhovvn tn this early photograph Eagle gate may be seen in the distance One out of three wagon loads of firewood taken out of City Creek canyon was delivered here to pay for road upkeep ( rrp UP y- f Eagle Gate Links- Utah To Great’ Pioneer Fast t - By CLARENCE S BANKER Eagle gate one of Salt Lake City’s distinctive landmarks dates back after arrival of the Mormon pioneers" and today serves as a link betwccfl horse and buggy days and those of rocket planes and atomic power Brigham Young president of the Church of Jesus Christ Saints and first governor of the territory of of Latter-da- y Utah had the big eagle carved from blocks of wood to guard the gateway to his own property which included barns stables shops and a sawmill at the site now occupied by the Lafayette decided to leave the eagle over school the archway standing on the The artistic gateway formed four pilfars’’ The article stated part of a cobblestone wall eight further that some deterioration feet high and 500 rods long surin the eagle was noted at that time and sparrows were buildrounding Pres Young’s property Symbolism of the Amering their nests inside it ican eagle paralleled that of the Don Carlos Young church Beehive house hia state resiarchitect drew up plans for redence next west built about modeling the gate retaining the 1852 surmounted by the emsame lines but raising it sufblem of thrift and Industry and ficiently to permit trolley wires the Lion house another of hia and street cars to pass beneath residences which has a stone and at the same time widening lion on the portico similar to the roadway between the piers one in his native town in VerPublic subscriptions raised mont amounted to $2700 and the city paid the balance of the cost First Gate Copper Plated When Eagle gate was first The eagle that time was was an aperconstructed there ture through the wall just west sent to Chicago and electroplated with copper New piers were of the gate to permit a branch built of granite and sandstone of City creek to flow southward and the reconstructed gate was for irrigation purposes dedicated Oct 5 1891 Residents of day freJoseph Eckersley title attorquently drove up City Creek ney for the LDS presiding canyon to obtain fire wood and bishop’s office says the church to do so had to drive through claims title to Eagle gate bePres Young’s property since cause it was erected originally there was no street running to Pres north from the Eagle gate as on land It belonging maintained been has Young toll As is there every today and in third load of wood was delivered until recently by the city at the saw mill to keep the road recent years by the church H K Burton superintendent in repair of the Salt Lake City water deAlthough Truman O Angell partment for many years and architect of the Salt Lake temnow its consulting engineer rebuildother Utah and many ple decalls that when City creek water ings has been credited with first was piped in 1876 there a copper gate Eagle signing was such demand for it for culibox treasure in the sealed plate records nary purposes that not enough inside One of the piers for that Hiram B Clawson designed water was left in the stream Jorthe RamAccordingly the original gate Ralph irrigation dan and Salt Lake canal startsay and William Bell were thi ed originally to float barges carvers d from Little Cottonwood canyon To fashion the to haul granite for the temple wing span' was eagle with its extended to bring Utah they used five blocks of wood lake water into the city one for the budy another ior the “The old canal reached upper head and neck two more for the State st by 1882" Mr Burton wings and the fifth for the beesaid “Its route is not now well hive upon which the majestic defined but I know that it bird is perched The Salt Lake Herald of May passed just back of the present Ambassador Athletic club 145 16 1882 records that ‘‘when the street leading to City Creek 5th East and by the old W W Riter home near 4th East and canyon from South Temple st 1st South” was opened by the city it was A to 1859 12 years the ox team and Photographed from the old Gardo house Is this view of the entrance to City creek canyon including Eagle gate Part of the Beehive 402 PRIZES (tm WEEK! EACH t wy m L house is at the left Anderson’s tower stood near what is now 7th avc and A st Several homes seen in the picture are still standing 2412 PRIZES ALL! ftiri ? f M 21 - t tl r that 500-poun- 16-fo- ot 1st Weekly Prin: “America’ Safest Car" with auto-poicontrol double-saf- e hydraulic brake new exterior styling new luxury Interior a roomy comfortable cor powered wnb a 102 HP Hudten Super-Si- x Engine se ©r some PLANTERS Ou PEANUTS Word Building Contest SEDANS will be given Just think of it! SIX brand new HUDSON SUPER-SIthe fortunate But all! to that’s winners There are 2406 other wonderful not away contest Just write down all the words that you prizes in this easy can make from the letters in Read the rules send Then carefully your entry today X fun-fille- d -- U-T-S TWO JORDANS MEET I Continued from Page Four ing haunts? Those same migrations southwards at the close of its arctic nesting send some of its clan to the shores and valleys of Palestine but there It is called the grey plover — the same bird with but a different name! Have you ever seen the common tern graceful white relative of the sea gulls flying over the Jordan 1 on its seasonal migrations? mion bird the’same seen have gration up the Biblical Jordan going to its nesting haunts at Lake Huleh or further north into Europe On the shores the seasonal migration of birds may have broughj within your view sander-lin- g the little greyish-whit- e tired denizen of arctic wastes who seejes escape from northern blizzards by traveling south to Utah He travels south also to the warmth of the subtropical Jordan valley in Palestine My Arab boy used to call the owls that nest long-eare- d amongst the ancient cedars of Lebanon and live in the wild forests of Galilee “Boomer” You may have a nickname of your own when you see this bird in Utah Have you seen the osprey fishing the waters ot the lake as skilfully as any fisherman? Every day in winter the visitor sees this noble bird around the shores of Galilee Starling Arrive One autumn afternoon 1 was motoring from Jerusalem down the dusty winding precipice road that twists and turns past the ruin of the Inn ot the Good Samaritan until in 12 miles anil little more than halt an hours the automobile has journey dropped 4(X)0 feet passing a sign which reminds one that sea level Is lelt behind in the descent into the cellar ot the world Sudcried: my companion denly “Look! The starlings have come back!” Wheeling in the sky away above Jericho was a swirling mass ot small dark birds looking from our view on the highway like a cloud of enormous locusts on their travels They were no different from the starlings you see in Utah Suffice it to note here that nine birds of the Utah i Jordan are identical even to tne same geographical race with birds we have noted in the Palestine Jordan valley and another 25 birds are the same kind of species in both countries International Birds Birds are international things They know no tariffs no frontiers Theirs is a world of freedom of international relations: they cannot read the treaties of war and peace amongst nations We talk of “British” birds ot “American” birds of “Biblical” birds and then we find how very much they are the same Maybe the same birds choose PEANUT BUTTER Homogenized just right for smooth creamy goodness Made by PLANTERS world’s peanut experts from choice No 1 peanuts only Rich in vitamins protein minerals Children nted foods like PLANTERS PEANUT BUTTER PLANTERS PEANUTS America’s Nickel Lunch! 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