| Show L i 4 Ii 5 1 tt d s 1 ii w. w M p t r t f S. S L tU j 4 t 4 si Y I 11 f fd d l r M The First Bronze Plaque To Mark all I Pony y Express Trail The first of ot sixty bronze plaques to o mark the stations of tho hi hh- hh oric pony vony express was wa unveiled In Salt Lake City Friday Juno 12 by Miss Carmen Streeper of oC Center Center- yUle granddaughter of ot Willlam William Henry Bill Streeper most noted of ot all the pony e express press riders The Tho ceremony was witnessed b by A Act Act- t- t I ng ng Governor Milton H. H Welling VeIling Mayor Major John F. F Bowman President Heber Heher J. J Grant and other city tate state and church officials Tho The I principal speaker was Dr Howard Howar DrIggs president of the Oregon Memorial Trails Trans association The marker will be placed l at lt t th tb sixty stations on the route to of the old pony oppress Q from St. St J Missouri to Sacr Sacramento mento I California The Salt Lake core- core marked tho the start of ot tho the work Twelve Twel plaques will be placed in Utah by the Utah Pioneer pioneer Pion pion- eer ocr Trails and Landmarks tion 1 iTh Tho o Salt Lake station once occuPied occupied oc oc- oc- oc the site of ot the Tribune- Tribune Telegram building I For or the placIng placing placing ing of the monument The Suit Sl La Lake e Tribune and Salt Lake Telegram Tole Tele gram gave ga a seven foot shaft Bhatt of faced granite Six were placed I ced upon it The illustration shows the abaft abart the plaques and Sanford Holman I former station tender of ot the exi ex- ex i I press |
