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Show HISTORIC SPOT IS VISITEDjy MANY SPOT WHERE BRIGHAM YOUNG SAID "THIS IS THE PLACE" WITNESSED BY THOUSANDS Emigration Canyon Near Salt Lake City Noted as Place Where Pioneers Pio-neers of Years Ago First Viewed Great Salt Lake Salt Lake Seventy-four years and a day after that memorable morning of July 24, IS 17, when Brlghanr Young raised up from his sick bed in a primitive prim-itive priarie schooner at the mouth jf Emigration canyon and gazed upon the valley of the Great Salt Lake, housamls gathered Monday morning in Hie same memorable spot and con-lirmed con-lirmed in eonsecnuiou, song and a rllual their leader's prophecy that 'this is the place." The occassion marked the unveiling of a shaft raised as an historical monument mon-ument upon the very spot where the pioneers of '47 gazed for the first time upon the valley of their destina-ion. destina-ion. The sh:ift is set amid the tumble veod and sage brush of the historic :".st. It is made of concrete set upon base of native Utah granite. On the face of a reproduction of a buffalo skull are the words: "A Bulletin of he Plains." Below is the inscription: This is the place. Brig-ham Young, hdy 24, 1817." The dedication of the monument was under the auspices of the M. I. A. and other church organizations. President Anthony W. Ivins presided. The flag draped monument was officially unfiled un-filed by Elder Preston Nibley. Ardminscent account of the arrival ,f the pioneers at the mouth of Emigration Emi-gration canyon was given by W. W. iiter, who arrived in Salt Lake six veeks after the party of President ""oung. Mr. Riter came with ns parents par-ents and was then 9 years old. He Qa-dared Qa-dared there was no doubt but what the spot selected for the monument vas the exact location where President Toting uttered the words, "This is the place." Mr. Riter exhibited the origins, guide, written by William Clayton, in which Is designated and described the spot where President Young stopped. The speaker said that at the time President Young was ill with mountain moun-tain fever and was lying in a bed prepared pre-pared for him in the wagon of Wilford Woodruff, When the spot was reached upon which the monument stands today, to-day, President Woodruff turned the side of the wngon around to permi; a view to the westward. It was then, according to Mr. Riter, that the pioneer leader lifted the flap of the wagor covering and after an extended survey of the valley said: "It Is enough, this is the place, drive on." Mr. Riter declared that when h"e foL lowed six weeks late and gazed upr the valley from the same spot, t sight to his youthful eyes was sicker.. ';ipr. He said lie was convinced as a hoy TTiat it was not tile place. "And I was not alone in that dismal foreboding," he said. "There were olhers of stronger mould than I to whom the valley looked lonely and (lis. mal." Elder Brigham H. Roberts, assistant church historian gave an official account ac-count of the landing of the pioneers in Salt Lake valley. He quoted from the ledger accounts of President Young and olhers of the parly to substantiate the accuracy of the route and the location lo-cation of the spot where the party stopped. Elder Roberts told of the planting of the first potato patch in the valley a few days after the arrival of the pioneers. The valley he said, was explored ex-plored by n party of nine men under the leadership of Orson Prntt on July 22, two days before the arrival of the main party, A true and official account of the naming of Ensign peak was given by the speaker. He sold tt did not acquire ac-quire Its name through the raising of the Stars and Stripes, as was generally believed. He declared the penk was designated ns a spot from wfFlch an ensign to humanity would be rnlsed. 'Thereupon, he said, was subsequently raised Hie standard of ZIon and the hill cest designated a Ensiim peak. Several familar L. D.S. hymns were snng. by the assembled throng under the leadership of Edwin P. Kimball assistant tabernacle organist and grandson of Heber C. Kimball, one of the '47 pioneers. The Invocation was pronounced hy Colonel Willard Young, a son of PresI dent Brigham Young. The benediction benedic-tion was offered by Robert Sweeten |