Show pi pioneer aneer day before another issue of the I 1 I 1 I 1 pro progress 0 res s review will be ou oufa t pio pioneer iader day july will have I 1 come and past in all the list of holidays there bere is not one around which to the people of utah there the clusters so mapy many tragic 0 and tender memories as the day celebrated col bratec as pioneer day 19 the events of th the e d day ay of july 1847 wore were but the climax of the most reni remarkable arkAl e journey ever undertaken by men women tind and children history furnishes no P parallel arallen to exodus f from born mivon of f the mormon people and their hight flight from the outposts ts of civilization civilisation civili to the rallying point on oil river and tim subsequent journey into and across a c ross the except by 1 I tia ab nb great herds of buffalo elk deer and antelope an tolopu and by the wil wild d and savage red man those who in after years crossed the great american desert deser fc followed in the track the well beaten highway in which had been blazed by b y the pioneer r found not the milestones of civilization instead there were well rounded mounds mound s of earth that marked the resting place pace of the sleeping 0 dead men women childen chil denand and babes whose journey to the promised land had bad been broken by the hand of death those desolate graves occasion aly a broken down wagon a stove or other articles discarded because of over laden teams the remains of work animals that had perished inthe in the hard service of the overland journey journe Y w were e i e the only reminders that human being 0 other than savage 1 had ever traversed this seemingly 0 interminable wilderness the burny oui ny of a thousand miles ailles which marked the vast and toilsome di distance between the missouri river and the ahe great salt lake was not then as n w 1 made I tide in the luxurious pi jace c r of to day drawn by the iron horse 19 which on it a road of steel a and n c I 1 w with th clang M of bells it dij v i screams reanis sc of triumph rushes n W ward A day and night with a speed of huri cane in covered wagons wa ons with pit tient oxen for the motive pow power r or hand carts d drawn ra W 11 or 1 pushed by mer men and women and a very few horse or mule teanis teams the little town of florence Fl roncO perched ott on the high bluffs on the west bank backof of missouri river fiver and add so some me four miles north of wf tile the present site of omaha om aha was is the rendezvous of the mormon migration emigration M they are f from rom nearly every ever clime and nation I 1 with a great reat variety of costumes manners and dialect di but all of one faith an and 1 there with one object that of fin finding dinc a place where they could live their religion lio gion in in pea ea e and enjoys enjoy the society of their co reli religionists zionists ionis I 1 ts |