The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-25

ut is our desire that this call shall
be given first place and other considera-
tions Of a public nature be regarded as
secondary until the work in hand shall
be completed"
That is the way the first presidency
put the question and the response will
be generous and hearty. In full the ap-
peal is as follows:
Office OF the First Presidency of the
Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. %. 1894.
To the Presidents Of Stakes and Bishops
of Wards.
Dear Brethren-In December 1891.
acting under our advice and direction.
an association was formed consisting
of some twenty-seven persons Cfor the
most part sons of the pioneers). with
ourselves as an advisory board, for the
purpose Of attending to the detail work
of the erection of monument to the
pioneers of Utah and their 6istin-
guished leader, President Brigham
Young. This association Immediately
entered upon its duties. A contract
was entered into with Mr.. c. L. Dallin.
n young man born in this territory who
had already attained an enviable repu-
tatiOns as a sculptor to perform the
10y him and fully approved by Us.
These designs provided for the erection
of a monument thirty-fiVe feet in
height. upon a granite pedestal which
is 10 consist Of the following consDicu-
GUS features: The sitting figures of ar
American Indian and a Rocky Noun
tain trapper in bronze. eight feet in
height. illustrative OF the primitive
conditions which existed in this region
before the advent Of the pioneers; a
pioneer group consisting of a man
eight feet in height. woman, child and
wagon, ar prairie schooner, to be cut
in relief work upon a. marble shaft or
column forming the central feature of
the monument; the whole TO be sur
mounted by a bronze statue OF PreSl-
dent Brigham Young ten feet in height.
The statue of President Young has
been completed and was on exhibition
al the Worlds fair in Chicago in 1898.
where it received widespread COM
mendation both for the faithfulness of
the likeness and as a work of art. II
is now inside the Temple block in this
city and ready to be put in place.
Models of the Indian and trapper have
been executed and approved. and are
ready TO be reproduced in bronze as
soon as the necessary funds can be
raised a model of the pioneer group
has been submitted by the sculptor
and as soon as approved can be cut in
stone and made ready 10 be put in po-
eition The site determined upon for
-,the monunen" is the southeast corner
cf the Temple block, near the spot
where President Young stood when
Utah was but a wilderness and uttered
the prophetic words: Here we win
build the temple of our God" For all
of the work above described, put in
position complete, and for superin-
tendence of construction of the monu-
ment, the sculptor, under the contract,
is to receive SIS, 1000. Only a few hun
bred dollars have as yet been sub
scribed and paid in.
From this brief statement of the con-
ditions you viii see how necessary il
is that immediate steps be taken TO
raise funds for this important work. it
is our hope that by next fall, in TINA
for the senli-annual conference, the
monument may be dedicated and un-s
yelled to the vision of the people who
shall have contributed to build it; and
there is no reason why our expect
atoms in this regard may not be fully
realized if all the people viii but take