The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-17
BRIGHAM YOUNG'S SON.
A Staunch Defender of His
Fathers Creed.
HIS BUSINESS INTERESTS
John W Young's Faith in the Great
West rs Evinoed by His
Works.

West rs Evineed by His
Works
Ell PAso, Tex, january 30.-[Corres-
pondence of the st. Louis Globf- sAs-
crat. John W. Youny, thu olcsst son
of the late head OF the Nor On Ohur h
has visited Ell Pa:o NJ mbsr OF times
in connection with the Nor non colo
MES in Southern Arizona, Ne. Mexie J
and chihuahua. He is an arrest aa6
practical man, not much given to
theories and speculations, but he be-
comes truly eloquent when he speaks
of what his father and thu other pis
neers of Utah have accomplished He
SAYS that whatever mistakes his father
may have made, he certainly made No
mistake wDen, driven out of the east,
be, with his wandering adherents
turned dis face towards the setting sun,
and after months of wandering in tt @
Wilderness" at last beheld the land of
promise, from the heights of the Wa
satch Mountains, stretched out before
him in the beautiful Salt Lake Valley.
and there pitched bis tent, upwards of
forty years ago. The valley was indeed
beautiful. even then, and with pro-
phetic vision the leader predicted great
prosperity and improvement for his
people.
In spite OF all the opposition Brigham
Young encountered the valley has been
made to bloom and blossom as the
rose, so that in all this vide country
there is not richer area of farming
land.
The Mormons have completely re-
claimed the desert, and that which was
formerly of no value is now by lrriga-
ton made of incslculable value. The
pioneers of the Western States have
been eulogized for their bravery and
hardihood in subduing the wilderness.
How much more praise is due the
MormOns for
sUBDUING THE DESERT
of the great interior basin. They had,
to begin with, no timber, no water, no
tools-every thing had to be improvised
and necessity was the mother of in
vention."
1hOuoduuo VI LILIES away 1TOIu GuH
they were as dependent as
ever were the Pilgrim Fathers, and
much more so than the pioneers of
Kentucky and Missouri. They had
not only savage Indians all around
them to contend with. but they had no
friend in the white man., who had
driven them from the settlements
through the wilderness into the desert,
forcing them to live there or die; driv.
ing them, in fact, into a foreign land,
because Utah at that time belonged to
Mexico. Perhaps the very fact that
the people in the east had turned
against them was the reason that
Brigham Young made such friends
with the redskins. Many of them be-
came converted and semi-civilized, and
the Indian became the friend of the
Mormon, as was Pocahontas the friend
of Captain John Smith in the early
settlement of Virginia.
Salt Lake City is still the Mecca of q
large and constantly growing religious
sect. It is remarkable fact that with
all their deep religious convictions, the
Latter-day Saints entertain no exclu-
siveness or fanaticism. but are tolerant
to the verge of extreme liberalism.
Or e. q noted Methodist bishop, by
special request of Brigham Young,
preached an excellent sermon in the
at Salt Lake on the occasion
of pastoral visit to the Methodists in
that city. His discourse was ON the
life and character of Abraham, and af-
ter he concluded, Brigham Young him
self took the pulpit and assented to all
the Methodist bishop had said, with the
further statement that the three great
of the Bible were Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, and that Abraham
was the grt atsst o hem all.
A favorite saying OF Brigham Young's
was the same as applied to Christ in
His day: OF this doctrine be OF men it
will come to naught; if it be of God,
who can contend against it?" He lived |
to see all his hopes realised. and his re-
mains lie buried in Salt Lake City near
his late residence, called the Bee |
Hive" John W. Young has recently |
purchased tho old homestead, and, |
with his family, now resides there. The |
over roomsof the main building are |
used for the Offices of the Salt Lake & |
Fort Douglas Railroad, commonly |
known as the Belt Line Railroad. and !
also of the Salt Lake & Eastern Railroad, |
If which Mr.. Young is the owner and |
It is plainly evident that |
BRIGHAM YoUNG's MANTLE,
i not in spiritual things. certainly in
temporal affairs, has fallen upon his
sldest SON. He is AZ years Of age, and
in the full vigor ofmanhood. He is
active, methodical and conscientious.
His business interests include railroads,
farms, cattle banks. factories, irrigat-
ing canals. etc. He seems to be second
only to his father in ability of putting
these things through
He regards the great west as b,ing
in its infancy, and has more
faith. il possible. than his father in the
saeoe sSfuI develop 1asns Of its resources,
Recently Mr.. Young has become in
terestsd in the st. Louis Canal at Gila
Bend, Ariz., which insures the early
construction of that great irrigating
canal, fty-two miles long, with $4,000
acres OF irrigable land lying adjacent to
it. A number of St. Louis people are
int 2, sted in this scheme. It is no
DOUBT an excellent enterprise, among
the best land and in the best climate
west of the Rocky Mount ains. Actual
work will be commenced in few days.
Salt Lake City is hoaiishing and
N-oerorouu aIthouoh rho. TuoEarEJ