Show it A woodruffs of jull uth 1817 11 r the address from 1 wilford ww read before th 1 a fumbled sabbath schools of C 1111 talo city at their celebration 0 k it 1 11 pioneer day 1 I 1 IT tv me pioneers and cilium and to th 11 1 and 1 chi s 1 my deir friends ono hearp 0 1 ago this day I 1 passed through im brair I 1 I 1 I 1 him young ile was taken sick on last canyon cree k and I 1 made a bed I 1 for in my canis when we cambi 0 on the bench ere wit had a fair 1 w of the valley more us I 1 I 1 turne the side of the vehicle to th jeaa so that ito clotild obtain a fall view atho valley pres ident youny 1 1 I ar pa from ills bed and took a sur iel of I 1 ile country before him for minutes M then said to me 1 oil down into the valley this Is our rk place I 1 have seen it befaro it in vi tilon in this valley will he built 1 the city of the saints and the I 1 olour 11 I 1 drove down toabe en camp merit already by a pori tion of out company tom pany who had cut a road through the quaking up I 1 gr 0 ves of limber t aero ill th a bed of the cai nyon and come in I 1 ahead of us We arrived in at on the morning of the 2 ith of july 1817 the brethren I 1 had already turned ont city creek ana irrigated the dry and barren soil 1 being the first ir rimMon ever per r formed by anyone in these moun they bad also cow I 1 fenced to plow some round and that noble pioneer william carter whose circumstances prevent his meeting ill the pioneers today broke the first ground and laid the dirst far 1 1 row the plowshare thai herfor md e I 1 the work is on the stand today to day on my arrival in camp before I 1 ate my I 1 dinner I 1 planted two bushels of rai 1 a toes in the ground broken up brer 1 d ent young commenced to re cover f rem his sickness the bout he I 1 entered the valley on a day c two following our arrival a remarkable I 1 incident occurred while T you walking with several of the s on the higher ground alorth aest of the encampment be suddenly stepped out struck his cane into tile barren ground and sagebrush I 1 and ex claimed 1 I tight here 11 I 1 stand the temp leof burgod we had a peg driven down and it was nearly in the middle of the temple as as it stands today to day which temple wai built without any regard to tile spot designated b y ident young at the on the will he went to the top of a high the north of the city which t young named ensign 4 peak we also visited the hot and war m aprin sprin 1 1 0 n the A 0 drove to the west 3 i t bilins and visited the salt I 1 lake president young being I 1 tile arst man to dip his hand into the brit I 1 water we walked to the ack alock and took a bath an the lake afterwards preparations were made for laying out the city and 1 ith other brethren resisted aes isted dew in laying a nd streets esith chain and compass I 1 Is laid out a block of ten acres upon wl ich to build a temple and c 1 it K lot s of one rem and a quarter a I 1 I 1 eight rodi w I 1 de all of chidi have been published by historians I 1 president I 1 oung left winter quarters I 1 an the ath day of april accompanied W by seven other apostles and other men all told men and three wo men the apostles were brigham young cleber C kimball wi word Woodruff Geo A hWillard idich ards orson pratt amasa lyman and ear L T benson parley P pratt and joll U ta alor arrived soon ig c com n of families orson ayd We traveled I 1 the first miles without any grass with the exception of tile little grain we fed our animals they lived entirely on the bark of cottonwood limbs and saplings which they cawed from th e cottonwood we wound lay before th am for their nights me alThis coin pan of men traveled I 1 aniles I 1 LT ing their roads and building their I 1 bridge in one instance we had to forna a guard of a wedge shape for three days and ni his to keep our I 1 company from belag trampled to F bath by an enormous herd of buffalo that had gathered from the mountains and were migrating in a solid body to the plains below the herd was judged to be ozity miles in length and num 1 1 bared not as than one million they were travel east and we were t av eling m est we weri 3 three days lt n 19 through the herd and we all I 1 b thed freer when we clear of I 1 I 1 them no other class of men will ever the pame atwelle aguill th face of the earth brother WM ca smoot sr got his horses bootle and mixed with tile herd and it as 0 with great difficulty that we obtained k them aga in i K I 1 1 noti g our first caie was to secure an abiding place a home for k 1 the people e did not 1080 sight of other important matters president I 1 young contemplated at that early day tile building of a railroad across tile continent and we marked out the route which we the national road take to unite the atlantic and pacific oceans I 1 Brot orson pratt and erasta 0 sa ow entered the valley two or three I 1 days before the body of the pioneers but here are those men today to day and where is president bri ham youn I 1 I 1 aud the apostles who hiat all are in the spirit world mingling with the martyred marty red prophets where they can plead for their breth ren not one of them living today to day except myself and but few of fit e pioneers we have bu ried a whole quorum of twelve apostles since we entered these vall ys of the mou retains rit ains the rem nante of zion a cam pa mormon battalion and the I 1 pio number but very few today to day those of us who remain va ill s bour posterity lived so 1 onla ln are n in the primaries the sab b a th schools and the mutual improvement pro associations and are this bled in this taber aty reat ile to celebrate the a rival of the pie aers into this great american d e s e rt which today to day through the blessing of god and labov of the P ou aers is blossoming bloss oming as the rose this m of pioneers spent about a gati r this valley durl aich period we e 1 ted what known as the old fr 0 r t surrounding three sides of the ten acre block w ith an adobe will about ten feit ill gh on the outs at and the east side with log bin we also arranged for this ort ve four one on each of the com au aint of the ria r turned to winter quarters where they reached in the fall maki journey of over rem bes the labors per while herein building a fort laying out the city an d exploring tha valleys wish to say a few words to the I 1 me abers of the sabbath schools and I 1 to all who are assembled in this taber maclo ce lebrato the arri v al of the into this valley it is not wisdom for us to occupy your time with a long address upon an occasion I 1 of this kind but I 1 have referred to a few incidents of our peculiar journey into this barren desert that YOU can k in mind the toil the care an the I 1 I 1 hip which your fathers endured 1 laying the foundation of the zion of 01 r dod which Is to be established 1 the mountains of israel in the fal 1111 of the blessings of the old pa jamb upon that should be fulfilled ful fille in the valleys of the everlasting everi asting hills in the latter days and upon the 1 of the prim F t I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 li ia v p 1 i 11 I 1 11 A I 1 1 I 1 f J of the iatter day saints rests the building up the kingdom of lot the foundation which their fa have laid and also of building up a state shall dwell virtue temperance industry frugality and honesty a mate which will do honor to ilia american government here wholesome laws hall be administered in equity anti to all of it citizen R ec lothe letter and spirit of the cionitti aution given by inspiration of al bod to pur forefathers I 1 fal to say to ofir children honor your father and your mother d your that your days may he long and prosperous rons in these valleys of the mountains which the lord your god halh given unto yon that god may bless you all and enable you to fulfill ilia object of yo r creation here on earth to tile action and your Creat 0 is the earnett desire of your fj an j brother WILFORD WOODRUFF 1 |