Our wide streets, the strategic placement of communities, the consistency of his planning. We sent hardy people here to Cache Valley, to Sanpete, Sevier, San Juan, to Vernal, Fillmore and Orderville. Their contribution is only now becoming clear. In the same time passed since Neil Armstrong landed, the Wasatch Front could become a mega metropolitan center of 2.5 million people. When they celebrate the bicentennial of the state it could be 7 or 8 million.
Time marches on.
That day will come. What will our children and grandchildren think of us. Unlike Brigham Young's day, leadership cannot deploy settlers. But we can institute policies that provide incentives and the basic infrastructure to attract economic resettlers to those communities. We must begin to acknowledge the economic, cultural and social development in the less populated regions of our state also benefits Salt Lake, Provo, and Ogden.