Show M 6 i baure YOUNGS prophetic gesh ture on july 24 1847 is remembered 91 years later with the annual celebration of pioneer day in utah and surrounding states in the above mural found in the union pacific station at salt lake city is portrayed the climax of an historic trek by mormons cormons who left their homes in illinois because of religious intolerance they cut a trail frail across plains and mountains settling ling in salt lake valley after f thousands hou sands had died of exposure and exhaustion today shining rails of the union pacific follow the path their oxen trudged and the desert has been made to blossom as the rose P 4 A am go W N of particular interest on pioneer day is the salt lake city seagull monument erected to fo the great flock of birds that appeared from nowhere in 1848 to destroy hordes of crickets a menace that thai brought near star |