| Show Hardships of Pioneers Built Strong Characters Says Apostle A W VI Ivins Now That First First Stage of Development Is Over People Must Look to Future Remarkable Leadership Displayed in Colonization of Wilderness The The Tho entire history hillory oC ot th the move move- movement move ment of ot the Mormon people to tc the west eow that there was wae a i master mind to conceIve and master hand to execute It was wa withe the tho mind and hand of or Brigham Young acting un under er the direction of the Lord whose agent n ent he was wa waIn wila In 10 the 6 of ot A pur- pur purpose pur pose declared by the thousands of o years ao ago Bald Mi thony V W member of et o the first presidency of ol the tho D 5 2 church during hI his address atur at Lorin Farr park at tho the entertainment provided tor Eor the by county charter chapter ot or the Daughters of ot the LOOK TO FUTURE The speaker kept the tho attention of his hearers by quoting from 1 dairies made on the plane during the movement mo westward Ills concluding statement was wao With the evolution ot of the past century the day of ot the pioneers i as It once existed on our western frontier has passed We have havo no desire to recall It ft Our faces facco are 1110 turned to the tho future and forward a looking men know that there Is pioneering yet to be bo dono done In ev- ev every c cery ery field of endeavor and research which will wUl lead us on to Increased Intelligence and knowledge for all of o our modern n wisdom we wo are aro only on the tho three three- hold of that tha which II I yet to como come We cannot however In la reaChing out for lor the future Ignore lenore the tho lu lee lions eons which the past teaches and anthe the mighty Influence which It I it wields In our present activities and will w continue to wield In the future of our out lives TAUGHT T IDEALS Tho Ideals foX for which our fa- fa there lived and died must continue con con- continue continue to be our guiding star They taught us UI faith In God and servIce Ice to Him and to our fellow fellowman mon man They taught us loyalty to tour our country and Its Us laws They y taught us both by example and precept the fundamentals of ot lion hon honor lionor honor or virtue Integrity Industry and economy These Thue truths remain fundamental no matter what the g future futuro ma may bring to us they are aro needed today as much as ever before They will be needed as along long as eternity may endure they must never be forgotten nor al- al allowed lowed loed to depart from our lives They are the tho priceless heritage be- be beQueathed bequeathed bequeathed to us by our pioneer fa- fa fathers and ore are a 11 torch-light torch which Il a guide us on to the glory to which they have attained It If we will only keep the flame which i A PIONEER IER The speaker In tracing the history his his- history his tory of ot the west said Mid The tragedy and romance otho of the tho trails blazed by the pioneers of this Intermountain country now so 80 well ell known knon and under undera stood by u us will w never be told or or written It cannot be because the men who bo made unrecorded history along these devious ways have long since gone gono to travel the tho of another world leaving of written history behind them On On these old trails men hav have perished from thirst In summer and from cold and lack of ot food In winter winter have hove been massacred by savages have havo killed one another for possession of the precious fluid contained In the water holes scattered along the way and mur mur- murdered mur- mur murdered murdered dered for tor the gold cold taken from the hills through which the trails passed Young Toung men and maidens plighted their faith as s they hive ve traveled over them mothers ha have given birth to children and holy men have lavo sacrificed their live lives I for tor religions religion's sake No one cartell can cantell cantell lat fate tell the story atory as time and have recorded It It EARLY EAILY EAI LY EXPLORERS Who of o these pioneers was first to enter this intermountain aln country I do de not know As earl early as me IUS Smith with wl h e a small smaIl party of ot trappers trapPers had ex- ex explored ex the tho Salt Lake basin and an south from mat point along alon th the western base basc of ot the Wasatch mountains to the Rio VIrgIn which he called the Adams river In honor ot of the tl president of ot the th United States and following the th e course of the river to Its Junction n with the Colorado crossed Into Int o oL what Is now the tho state of Arizona L the tho first white man so far as aa wo we weare w 0 are aware to enter Arizona from 1 t the o north In 1830 William KIlt kill and party followed the same am e route to a point near the Junction of the Colorado with the Rio Hlo Vir- Vir Virgin Virgin Vir gin where he turned west to the t Las Vega Vegas on to the tho Mojave and ond through the Cajon pass to Califor- Califor California nia In 1803 06 Lewis and had gone gonG up the Missouri 1 and down dow the Columbia to Its mouth two tw 0 years yeo having been occupied In making the tho trip We now travel trav over the tile same ground In In a 0 few days das ESTABLISHED T IDAHO U lOHT in ln 1832 If Captain Bonneville and a party porty wintered on the Salmon river rive in Idaho and In the same sune year Nathaniel Wythe the a member of established party tort Fort ort Hall In 1836 Marcus Harcus Whitman and Henry Spalding crossed the conti o nent with wagons their wives uc- uc ac companying them the tho tint first whito women women and and t the e first to tomake tomake make the journey so far tar as 8 we e weare are aware Whitman with his 1118 hl wife irit and twelve others were later killed by the Indians people whom they the had gone Into Oregon to serve and an bless Father Escalante Es calanta had entered Utah nearly a century before hut but had only made mado a II short hort stay Ho II was wu endeavoring to find a route from Santa danta Fe New Mexico to Monterey Calif FIRST AGRICULTURALISTS made mad The Tho first tint effective effort cHort looking to the colonization and de- de development development de of o community lifo In inthe 1 the tho Rocky mountain region was wasby wasby wa by the Mormon pioneers who en- en entered en the Salt Lake Valley on the tb ot of July 1847 1347 seventy nine years ago It Is true that others other had come and gone before isolated forts torts and trading posts had been bee established Miles Goodyear Goodear had ha located on the ground where Oil den now stands but no one had ha come with the purpose of develop develop- developIng Ing lag community life The country countr was thought to bo be Impossible so 80 si far tar as IUS agricultural development A Aan h v A Aan v was WILl In the estimation of those who were familiar with It a as al a a fur bear bear- bearIng bearIng Ing region only When the Utah Ulan pioneers en en- en entered entered the Salt Lake Valley It was wasa wasa a wild inhospitable part of ot the th Great West the the hunting ground of the Ute tte the tho and Sho- Sho Shoshone Shoshone Shoshone shone and when these people saw the white whits man come with his coy coy- covered covered ered wagon and plow BO so force force- forcefully forcefully fully portrayed In Emerson Roughs Rough's great stor story with his flocks end and an herds to eat cat their grass and his hi civilization to frighten away the th game gamo which abounded they na- na naturally naturally naturally resented his encroachment Eternal vigilance was the price of o safety and even then the pioneer was never neer sate safe Food and were acres necessary sary and these the pioneers could obtaIn from cultivation ot or the tl Coil soli and their flock locks and herds These Thele gave them food with which to sustain their b C bt bi s clothing with which to cover them T Tho They be- be became be became came their most cherished posses alone Thus this modern Israel like Israel of old became a 8 pas PU- pastoral toral tore people little attention being paid to the tho professions and other occupations by which men now acquire alth BUn STRONG lt It was In such environment as- as associated with men ot of like charac charac- character character ter that toy fOY boyhood and early manhood W w- w wI I J tog became a tender of flocks and herds first Cor or others erl later laler for m myself and the Ideals which have IllY lire life were formed by contact conta t with these men and the they set for tor me Th Thy y were wro men of few words those riders of the hills and plains men Inca of ot un- un unsurpassed un unsurpassed surpassed courage our ge but with vitti heal II as al tender as ae the heart o 0 woRsen women w where eT acts of ot mercy merry were weN required u as was frequently the case ca e Not many audible prayers rayen ton wor said eald by them but when th the tha d days day's ys worl was finished and tIle tha blanket cored down for the tho night m many ny petitions went vent up to th throne of ot grace In gratitude fur for ble blessings received and pra cr for or others desired dedred One OnG ilay day long af- af after af at after ter a poet put tho the attitude J of these men Into verse vene awl aul this is is u witt w ithe he said I 0 Lord Ive I've never churches churchell grow crow I love creation bettor UJ sj It U stood The day you ou It u s long ago 1110 And looked upon your work and called It good I know that thai others find you In III tha th light That's down through tInte window panes panee And that I too find you near to- to tonight tonight to tonight night In this dim quiet starlight on the plAins I thank thee Lord that I am placed so 80 Well That thou hast halt made lay zay l Y freedom so 10 complete That Im I'm no slave of whistle clock or bell bellOr Or weak eyed prisoner In L a a walled up street Just let me roe live my ray life as Ive I've be- be begun begun be gun Give me work that's open to the sky Make ako me a II pardner with with the wind and sun lun And Ill I'll not ask a place placa that's soft sort or high I Let me be easy ellS on the man nian that's down Make Mako DIe Dio free tree and generous with Ith I all rat Im careless Lord sometime when Im I'm In town But never let iet them call me mean meanor meanor or smell small Make me big and open like the plains on which I ride Honest a as the tho hor hors horse between my m knees Clean as the tho wind Ind that blows bo- bo bo hind this the rain Free a as the hawk which circle down the breeze I Il l Forgive org e me Lord when en sometime I forget You know t the e reasons which are an are hid You know about the things ht h gall and fret You know me better than my m mother did Just keep an en eye on all that's said sa-K and done Just right mo me always s when I turn ul aside And guide me on the long dim rail grail ahead Which stretches upward toward towar the tho Great Divide REALIZED FAULTS Such was the th c character ot of the themen themen I men who laid the tho foundation for forthe forthe the empire which Is ii being build build- cd ed In the Rocky Mountain region Not all alt alike It Is true there were wen good and bad among them just justas ju as os there thero are among doctors and lawyers merchants and preachers an and 1 politicians Let us analyze for a II moment the character of o man this pray pray- prayer or er po portrays trae He was not a sol sOs sOs- dier of fortune staking life liCe for reputation not one seeking wealth from his un undertaking He lie was not an egotist whose vision wai wal wa confined to his lIs own restricted en He Ho knew that other men found the tho Lord In temples built with hand hands lust just as he found Him there thero In iq the solitude of the plains under the stars He was wai not Pharisee who magnified the I faults of his he fellow while blind to his own Imperfections But Butone ono one who acknowledging hi his own weakness spread the mantle of ol charity over that of his neighbor lie He was not a man who sought the downfall of ot his fellow that he might rise 1180 to greater heights but just a bravo plain spoken man who asked nothing but to be left leet I to his chosen occupation knowing that the Lord was knocking atthe atthe at the door of the hearts hearts of ot all men and that If It they would only leave the string latch on the tho outside as ai asIt asit It always hung on his cabin door the Lord would come como In and bring peace to their souls The coming of o the Utah Plo Plo- Pioneers fleeTs was not a thing of ot chance They were not a bod body of o aimless wanderers going they hey knew not whither but a company of ot intel Inte educated thoroughly organized organized or- or men the tl I peers of ot any any ot otheir o their time going to a destination which had been carefully decided upon for tor tho the accomplishment of n a definite purpose That this the Is is the case Is shown by a discovery discover which I made some time ago hila searching the records In t th tb office of ot the historian ot of the church Upon a few theeta hect of ot manuscript I found the following EARLY RECORDS Feb 26 1847 Winter Quarters Quarters Quarters I spent the afternoon and evening In with H C Kimball 0 O Pratt E B T A Benson W tV Woodruff Geo Ceo A Smith A Lyman N K IC Whitney William Clayton and J M Id Grant Orant Conversation ensued relative to Journey westward the construction of o boats pioneers traveling bee loca- location Lion tion seeds Irrigation science etc elc The Tho following day February 27 minutes on file in 10 the office o othe the church historian evidently Of- Of ot or original read as a follows Joseph Hart will tan sides hides ldes The of o JOU plc pick up III 1 13 hides and ant take them to Joseph rt HI-rt Ll U Young Young lie has 1 8 b bought l h up III O OU ul b ii corn to go In Pioneer 00 Jo I 1 1 want vant then theu pay a a bushel buhei for tor seed need cornand orn and ond then they wont won't teed feed It to their set get cauls get mule and wag wag- ens and get ret to know in one week what w we have on hand lana now got get the Pioneers fitted ClUed out JC If I those t who go thu this spring hay have t tf tO fit fI Jut but the pioneers themselves rIght have those who stay to cx- cx ex el expect anything at the mountains mountain when they come 4 0 pounds per team pounds provisions farm farm- farming Inc ing cooking i bed blankets blanket plows etc log chain S a V We Wg have to search for forland torland land that t can be irrigated My company take 1 11 prairie and Dia Pa- Dia- Dia Diamond Diamond mond plow plows Two blacksmiths with bellows and tools carry 10 Q bushels coal you want to start your plows the day after you get gt there If It tho the Pioneer take tako horel and mule mules the next company will not be In fear tear ot of take Indians Indians take 20 O plows that Co and 10 set drag draa teeth I want vant you ou to be ready by bythe bythe bythe the lath of o larch arch arch Take Tako 6 bus bUI corn and ald all the tho millet and bar bar- barley ley Icy and peas be beans nl 2nd nd Co Potatoes buckwheat tall fall wheat and rye Leave Lono bY I or Oth of ot Ju June n e Each Eath team 1 bus seed leed corn 1 l i bus oat oCta oats 1 bus bUI potatoes 1 1 peck millet 1 peck barley den car i i bu bus white bun beans gar ar den lee seeds l all kinds kind kinds pack all peas can scrape all the tho flax and hempseed hemp hempseed hempseed seed provisions for br three men 00 pounds pound of corn or meal mell tel lee team tum Each horse hone hone and antI and mule thoroughly shod with new Shoes and an extra set of nails prepared ed DIVERTED Dl WATERS W This record shows attention to tode de detail tIll rarely equalled It proy proves beyond contradiction that these thue men had carefully considered and without fear rear executed the great undertaking upon which they had embarked The details of o the Journey west had been carefully worked out and the social Indus Indus- Industrial Industrial trial and scientific aspects of |
