Show monument to the sea gull in sale lake city a granite column about sixteen feet high stands on a granite pedestal in a basin thirty feet in diameter the co column lumn supports support sa a granite ball upon which two bronze gilt gulls are represented as alighting gently the monument coan amorates the saving by gulls of th tha e pioneers of utah in 1848 from hor hordes als of grasshoppers that threatened to devour every leaf and blade of their fields the monument bears the inscription sea gull monument erected in grateful remembrance of the mercy of god to the mormon pioneers |