The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-05

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contrasting them With the early days al
milling with the present, showins
the great improvement which hNd
taken place. The lumber interests .Wero
IuiIy Represented in q series of wagons
tne nrst containing . large log unhewr
ana unsaWed, and ending with q house
IN process OF erection. Many of the vehi-
cles containing machinery in shess d.
visions we're arranged with leather bands
attached to the hubs Of the wheels, "a
that the machinery was kept running
during The entire parade, aud wheat was
threshed out ard ground and lumber
saved and planed along the route. It re.
CURED nearly four hours for the process.
sion to pass given point. In the line
we're fourteen bands, fifteen companies
OF military, 1S5 men on horseback, TWEEN.
lynne wagons, 22l3 horses and thous.
ands OF men engaged in various
-four and lumber mills of the CITY,
After an elegant lunch at the Lyndell
Holel1 Washburn addressed Mr.. Willard
IN neat speech extending to him and
his guests cor1iRl and hearty welcome,
after which he proposed the following
toast Henry Willard, president Of the
Northern Pacific railroad, in whom we
RECOGNIZES one Of the greatest organizing
minds, and whose GROWING accomplish
ments place him foremost among the
commercial eonquerors of tho world and
demonstrating that peace hath her
victories, no less renowned than wars
amidst tempestuous applause Pres
ident Willard came forward and as soon
as the cheering sufficiently subsidized
responded to the toast. He said:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Reception Committee:
/ hope you may believe me when
state 1t Is solemn truth that am sur
prised, amazed, bewidered, confused by
the overwhelming reception to which
myself and my guests from abroad and
at home have been honored to-day. I am
fairly oppressed with the consciousness
that more honor has,been rendered to me
than l have deserved. (Cries of No,
no.O Gentlemen, 1 know what I have
done better than you do. II you will
therefore permit me to dissent from you
on this occasion. I know have done
my duty, but I am but one person, but
one mind, and that one mind would not
have been adequate to the accomplish
ment of the gigantic task Represented by
the undertaking that we have been prose
cutting during the last two years. TWEEN
ty-6ve years ago walked over the site
of the city OF Minneapolis. l found
there single building, where great and
prosperous city stands to-day. It is as
much beyond the small beginning that /
then saw, a. the honors that have been
showered upon me to-day are beyond
what I really deserve. As
it is l can Only soy that my
heart is overlooking with the most CRATE
full emotion towards the inhabitants of
this city. 1epeak the sentiments Of all
my friends, OF all present to-day, when
Ilssy that what We have seen has far
surpassed all our expectations"
The following tosstB were then pro-
posed: "Jsy Cooke. Il is fitting that
the founder Of the railroad which spans
the continent should stand side by side
wi!h its prosecutor and fnisher in driving
home The golden spike of the completed
and consolidated enterprise" General
A. b. Nett eton, of Minneapolis, was
called on to respond to the toast. General
Washburn stated tina. General Nettleton
wEs q warm personal friend Of Mr..
Cooke, who was unable to be present on
account of ill-heslth. General Nettleton
jay Cooke, and related the
frat conception Of the gigantic enter
prise.
The regular toast was sour guests,
coming from every cline, speaking every
tongue, representing the old and ine rev
We welcome them 80 the
modern centre which is bounding with
rapid strides towards the fulfllment of
the prophecy of one of the greatest
ststesmeo, that within the sight oe the
capital of Minnesota, and the sound of
the Falls Of st. Anthony, would at no
distant day be found the seat of empire
of the world" Herr Won Bruen was
called on to respond to this sentiment,
amid great enthusiasm. Herr Won
Bruen's remarks were received with great
favor. Closing, he said: When I look
upon this expedition, the like
Of which never was attempted
since our modern civilization has existed,
| am delighted TO see how we all spring
from the same stock, how this same stock
Immediately takes root in the soil OF
America, and f1ourishes while other
races do not seem to prosper on the soil
Of liberty and freedom. In this sense I
would venture upon q saying which is
perhaps far beyond the immediate truth,
but in which there may nevertheless be
seintillstion Of truth. I feel rs if were
10 the midst Of q parliament of Teutons
ior the first time assembled under the
wings of the American eagle, under the
'olds Of this most wonderful, striking,
ample city Of Minneapolis.