| Show development from a recent issue of the congressional record we offer excerpts from a talk by congressman walter K granger in which he paid tribute to the first utah settlers as the chosen vanguard of a sturdy group of american pioneers who were seeking a place where they might live life worship according to the dictates of their conscience in peace be all allowed owed to build homes establish community and thus establish a civilization on a westernmost western most front frontier ler immediately upon their arrival these pioneers set about to prepare the land so that they might plant crops within a few short years the desert was transformed and a new commonwealth was shaped since food was the first concern it was only natural that every man should assume his responsibility for its production thus their leader jeader devised a plan of giving to each man a piece of land which was to be used for the production of the food needed by his family so farming became the industry in utah in point of time and is still one of the gre greatest adest sources of its wealth mr granger also told of the livestock industry sheep and wool production of poultry raising mining and the sugar beet industry of the latter he said in 1852 mormon pioneers cut off from the world needed sugar and new industries dus tries to make her settlers self supporting so an heroic effort was made to establish the first sugar factory though the initial effort failed its momentum resulted nearly 40 years later in the erecting and successful operation of the first factory to be built with american machinery and the first to make sugar from beets grown oh irrigated farms at lehi utah in 1891 he summed up the growth of the state of utah by saying its increase in population from to over its agricultural mining and industrial development are great but greater than all these are its people the utah pioneers in their great wes western terri march were typical in their american pioneer traditions they were the sons and daughters principally from the new england states and brought with them to this new frontier great ideals and cultural desires they were not content to limit their pioneering to development in the field of sowing and reaping alone but were determined to provide an opportunity for intellectual and physical development as well As a result utah ranks high in educational achievement the centennial celebration with its many attractions and fine programs has resulted in giving publicity to all of the things mentioned in mr grangers brangers Gr angers talk and it has brought many more people into the state this year than ever before undeveloped utah roads have been one of the drawbacks for detracting tourists except through the northern and western sections and possibly through the southwest therefore we who live in this southeastern section have been more or less isolated in comparison we recall an upstate friend once asking us why we ever chose this part of the state in which to settle because it seemed to him that it is too much of a wilderness to be attractive to one who had lived in a large city but taking into account the vast amount of improvement made in the past 14 years it wont be long before even this section will also bloom like a rose and become the dwelling place of many persons who will be only too glad to leave the congested cities and conditions under which they now live few people realize the possibilities of this state for those thos who have initiative and a desire to remake their life pattern in keeping with the ne worder of living which will soon replace the old |
