Show presentation OF VALLEY FEATURES JANUARY ISSUE of ARROWHEAD MAGAZINE LOS ANGELES publication disseminates literature ON VALLEY throughout UNI TED STATES ON ALL RAILWAYS AND TO RE REMOTE MOTE PARTS OF THE WORLD ON STEAMSHIP LINES LEADING WESTERN MAGAZINE WITH HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS circulation GIVES MILLARD A GREAT PUBLICITY BOOST z A PROGRESS GIVEN E 4 N I 1 permission 3 ER I 1 SION TO REPRINT SOME OF MAGAZINE ARTICLES EDITORS NOTE A powerful boost has just been given millard co anty by tho the arrowhead magazine a leading western publication printed in los loa angeles tho the january issue of the magazin magaz ln 0 o features valley with its groat great undeveloped resources it Is attractively priti printed tod and profusely illustrated in color pictures of millard mallard county views tho the cover la in beautifully lithographed lithographer litho graphed and shows one of the wonderful scones mcenos from zion national park tho the mag magazine azinia has a circulation over the whole united states and Is ij carried to all pa parts arts of the world on stans lill lines tho the fact that tho january la is devoted to a presentation of Pall vant valley in word and elc plc I 1 turo tine is an indication meation in of tho the wider recognition of tho the great possibilities of this section wo we begin this athla week to reprint a number of these articles art lolea tile tho first lerat article in tile magazine la is from tho the pen of joseph F ander son principal of 0 the malllard county high ailigh school and wo we have secured 1 permission from him and from tho publishers of the magazine to re print tho the article beginning with this the article under its magazine heading follows THE STORY OF MILIARD COUNTY UTAH SOME OF HER HISTORY forecasting A IN 4 transportation BY JOSEPH F ANDERSON every man in millard county and utah Poll ol lovea evoil that the year 1922 marks the division between and modern history tor for the county tile tho coming ot of the tha union pacific railroad rall rood oils athla year to eastern millard mallard county through the heart ot of its great valley breaks the bonds of isolation that have hereto fore kept halt this empire of potential patent ial wealth from playing tho the large att ollo elio la Is destined to play in inter moult lyro of tho the of 0 cora com ineice tho the Is the open sesame So Kaino long awaited to open the great treasure vaults of val loy ley and so Mil millards lards greatest li ifill before her but it will ibo be built upon a noble past cwi ie W A A aft alth j utah 4 old territorial capitol at fillmore valley cete eted as the first seat of for the of utah valley as named by the indians literally meant the laud land of vanished waters dut but in the chang ing language of the aborigines it came to connote the equivalent ot heap good illean heap good Is no misnomer the keen observation ot of tho the indian soon taught him that it was wag a land choice above above all other lands landa and abo original connotation the land ot of vanished waters Is a reminder that the broad rich rich valley was in past glo eons bons the sea bottom of old lake bonneville whose vanished waters have left a deep rich alluvial slit silt comparable in fertility and productiveness to the famed delta ot of tho the nile by some ot of tho the western indians indiana it was known as tho the valley of rich living 91 because of the prolific growth ot of native vegetation and tho the abundance ot of game living it was la this ln in yating condition that the mormon pioneers found it whoa when the tha original colony of families made winter camp at the present site of fillmore tho the county seat in october Oc 1851 we airet hear ot of ovalley in the accounts of the old spanish explorers in 1776 tho the year ot of american two franciscan monks escalante and dominguez generated pene rated from botn old santa fe far into tho the northern lea these hardy missionaries entered utah valloy valley by way 0 of spanish fork canyon and ox utah lako naming arming it kimpan ogas logaa and giving the jordan river the name ot of ruo rio santa anna ro turning they passed tho the where are naw located to towns ot of payson I 1 fillmore Don dearer Ter cedar city and st george and crossing the colorado river alyer found their way back to old santa banta fo those mort men practically explored the heart ot of utah and spoke in glowing terms ot of the bi litle of Pa livant valley as a do de place for or spanish colonization in the proposed expansion from old mexico it remained for or tho the anglo saxon raco race to begin colonization of this athla lical heap good land nearly three tors of a 0 century later soon after tho the arrival of the mormon pioneers in salt sait liko labo valley brigham young sent out explorers to find the moot moat favorable location tor for the capital 0 of tho the beehive territory those train od colon lzora were unerring in decoi i mizing tho the merits of valley s its as the nucleus of the contemplated inland empire i in 1851 18 5 1 brigham young you ne called up on thirty men m on of the peat best blood oy of r tho the snit sill lake colony to go under tho the leadership leadar ship of anson call and establish the capital of tho the territory of 01 utah in valloy valley the plo A arrived in october aal establish od ca themselves oia OH chalk crook winter was coming on hut ut the carpenters and mechanics in the tha company immediately devoted themselves res to tho the tack of building the capitol build ing the structure as it isnow now stands in fellmore was completed lu in time for tile tho territorial legislature to occupy it in 1856 tell teh capital city was siron siren the name of in honor of president fillmore aho ho appointed brigham young governor goyer nOr of tho the sorrl tory the second legislature met at fillmore two years yeam later but adjourned 1 11 l to salt lake where the center 0 of POP lop illation was fOlL nIng because 0 f th fact that that city lay in the peth of transcontinental travel remoteness from travel and tran port Por atlon tation has haa ever since ben bean the ons 6 a and only deterring factor in the suj aup I 1 erh erb development of historic h Tri valley had the pacific coast been by way of Fill fillmore mOrO la in early days that city would no doubt atilt be ba the tha capital of the rate bate or had the rall railroad road been seventy years yeara erl earl ter ler in this nature favored section tho the seat of might havo have remained at fillmore and buchs of the develop deve lopi lent that la Is P to come cam already have ien I en achieved aCh lored TO RE JE CONTINUED b |