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Show Sugar House Sermonettes by E. Cecil McGavin This In (he last In a series of articles on the early day history of Parley's Canyon. The series is presented onder the sponsorship of Sugar House Camp, Sons of Utah Pioneers. ! x Before the Golden Pass was opened to the public on July 4, 1850, there had been a heavy emigration through the valley val-ley that season. The "Deseret News" reported that the emigration emi-gration that year before the first of July included the following, fol-lowing, having passed Fort Laramie: 37,171 men, 803 women. wo-men. 1001 children, V'4 wagons. wag-ons. 22.742 horses. 7472 mules 30,01 G oxen, 5720 cows and 45 sheep. This report stated that 257 persons had died upon the plains during the early months of that year. If a large portion of the emigrants could be directed through the Golden Pass, it would soon become a lucrative lucra-tive enterprise, soon repaying for its construction. Since the remains of Parley Par-ley P. Pratt were interred in Van liuren County, Ark., where he was assissinated, the Golden Pass that now bears his name is an appropriate mounmcnt to the memory of the man whose vision and industry in-dustry carried a path through ' the canyon and opened a beautiful highway to the public. |