Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-30

SALT LAKE CITY.
 ion. How strange it must all seem to tho few survivors of the great emigration from Nauvoo, for, according to what they were told by the prophets and most i'm plicitly believed the American Union was to have been dissolved long ago. the Nor mons were to have been the ruling force for 20 years, and in 1890 this earthly scene was to have closed in blood and fire and the New Jerusalem be let down from God out of heaven and located in Jackson county, Mo, as the capital of new earth, while tho faithful old saints wcrc to be chariotccring in immortal triumph far above tho clouds. Now the sons of the original Smiths, Kimballs, Pratts and Youngs and tho sons of many of the men who fought them in Missouri arc rejoic- ing in unison because n Democratic prcsi- dent and congress have agreed to admit Utah as a state.
 Utah's Foundation.
 And yet the dream of the old Mormons of 1S50-GO was not so unreasonable as it now seems. They laid of the boundaries of their intended empire and proceeded to lay its foundations with n great deal of judgment. It was to extend from British America to Mexico and from the dividing | summits of the Rocky mountains to those of the Sierra Nevada, while from the southern end of tho latter tho line went off southwest to the Pacific to include southern California As new converts poured in from Europe at the rate of 2, 900 | or 3, GOO per year, the most hardy and en- terprising were organized into half mili- | tary, half ecclesiastical, commands and sent to garrison the frontiers. Some 100 young men were sent to Iemhi, Ida, with instructions to take wives of all the sur | rounding tribcsand establish close relations | with the Indians as fur us tho Saskatchc- Al
 went to San Bcrnartlino, Cal, and soon tho whole valley of the Santa Anna was made to bloom like n garden by Mormon
 industry. Apostle Orson Hyde led anoth- CT large colony to what is now the Carson | valley, Nevada, and outposts were planted all along the western slope of the Rocky
 mountains. Thus their lines included a region some l, 200 miles from north to south and 500 from east to west, and with | their rapidly increasing numbers they had | good reasons to believe that they could oc- | cupy all tho best valleys in that 1000, 900 squaro miles before tho cncroaching gen. | tiles would have settlements within 800 | miles of their bOrIlcr It is needless to re- count how the rapid settlement of the gold regions, the Mormon war of 1857 and sub | sequcnt events spoiled this beautiful | scheme.
 A Long Romance.
 | The history of Utah is long romance, | spotted hero and there with terrible trag- edics. It begins like that of all the far | west, with carly Spanish explorations, but | the Spaniartls soon discovered that thcro was little in such a country for them. Early In this century the trappers knew | that the valleys opening westward from tie Wasatch range were full of game, and that Cache valley, Browns kIOle and oth-
 CT secluded hooks were splendid places for winter camps. The names of Ashley, | Bridger, Hall, Bill Williams and many
 others arc stamped upon the stream and | detached mountain pccks as lasting me | morials of their presence there. When Cap | tain Bonneville explored the country some | GO years ago, he found permanent white | settlers in northeastern Utah. and when | Fremont reached the shores of the Great
 Salt lake in 1S43 there were many white voyagers who could tell him all about the | lay of the country. He described particu- | larly the saline character of the water and
 measured its elevation above the sea, ex- pressing his astonishment that this lake | at the very bottom of the great basin was | higher than any mountain in Pcnnsyl-
 vania. On his return trip hc passed tho | south end of Utah lake, which he supposed | to be O southern prong of Salt lake, and | expressed surprise that tho south end of a | lake should be fresh water while the north end was purc brine. On his last and most
 disastrous trip, when his men endured
 such suffering in getting through the
 mountains from New Mexico, he found
 tho Mormons already in fourishing settle
 ments in south central Utah, and his worn and starving men were delighted with the
 generous hospitality of the settlers.
 Tho history of the Mormons and their
 exile to Utah is too well known to need
 detail. Suffice 1t to say that Brigham
 Young and Joseph Smith were both born
 inVcrmont, tho former in 1901, the latter
 in 1895, and rcarcd in New York; that the I"Goldcn Bilrlo' was rcV,gIICd to the world
 in 1899 and the church organized with six
 members April C, 1880; that their first sct-
 clement was at Kirkland, O., and their
 second at Indcpenlcncc, Mo, and that
 they wcrc driven from tho latter place in
 November, lSI3. From that date their movements wcrc of national interest. Hav- ing fled to Clay county, Mo they remained
 thcrc n year and then rctratcd to the un-
 settled region of the northwest, or Platte
 country, whcrU they flourishcd greatly for
 four years.
 Mormon Tragedies
 In tho meantime those left nt Kirkland had become involved with their ncighbors
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