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Show 3 PIO.NEER DAY. I Twenty-four years ago to-day a band of brave men, possessed of hearts as unflinching as the oak of the forest, and full of an implicit faith in a kind i Providence, emerged from the winding steeps of Echo canyon, and gazed upon the valley of the Great Salt Lake. It was a glorious sight to those noble souls ! Their feet blistered with the alkali desert, their bodies scorched by the burning sun, their hearts aching with recollections of untold sufferings j endured in the civilize! lands they were driven from, the sight of such a resting place was as welcome to them as was the land of Canaan to the ancients. an-cients. A marvelous work and a wonder has been wrought out in those brief forty-four forty-four years. It is one ot the marvels of the age. History records it as such Men of eminence, yea, presidents, rulers and statesmen t have been unanimous unani-mous in awarding to the people of this i ' territory the plaudits that tbeir devotion devo-tion and .their industry has earned them. But few remain with us to-day of that valiant band of 143. Those few we honor; t those that have gone before we revere. And on this day, a day next to the Nation's birthday, so fat as the people of this commonwealth is concerned, con-cerned, let u.s all think of the struggles the pioneers must have endured in converting con-verting this desert to the garden we now Ond it, aud we will love our homes more, and hold dearer to u.s the grand, the glorious, the beautiful land of Utah. |