The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-06-01
CHAPTER II.
THE FLOWER OF UTAH.

CHAPTER IL
THE FLOWER OF UTAH
This is not the place to commemorate
the trials and privations endured by
the immigrant Mormons before they
came to their final haven. From the
shores of the Mississippi to the western
slopes of the Rocky mountains they
had struggled on with a constancy
almost unparalleled in history. The
savage man, and the savage beast,
hunger. thirst, fatigue and disease
every impediment which nature could
place in the way, had all been over
come with Anglo-Saxon tenacity. Yet
the long journey and the accumulated
terrors had shaken the hearts of the
stoutest among them. There was not
one who did not sink upon his knees in
heartfelt prayer when they saw the
broad valley of Utah bathed in the
sunlight beneath them, and learned
from the lips of their leader that this
was the promised land, and that these
virgin acres were to be theirs forever
more.
Young speedily proved himself to be
skillful administrator as well as a
resolute chief. Maps were drawn and
charts prepared, in which the future
city was slzetched out. All around
farms were apportioned and allotted in
proportion to the standing of each in
dividual. The tradesman was put to
his trade and the artisan to his calling.
In the town streets and squares sprang
up as if by magic. In the country there
was draining and hedging, planting
and clearing, until the next summer
saw the whole country golden with
the wheat crop. Everything pros
pered in the strange settlement.
Above 81, the great temple which they
had erected in the center of the city
grew ever taller and taller. From the
first blush of dawn until the closing
of the twilight, the clattc- of the
hammer and the rasp of the saw were
never absent from the monument
which the immigrants erected to Him
who had led them safe through many
dangers.
The two castaways. John Terrier and
the little girl who had shared his for
tunes and had been adopted as his
daughter, accompanied the MormOns
to the end of their pilgrimage. Little
Lucy Ferrier was borne along pleas
antly enough in Elder Stangcrson's
wagon, a retreat which she shared
with the Mormon's three wives and
with his son, headstrong, forward
boy of twelve. Having rallied, with
the elasticity of childhood, from the
shock caused by her mothers death,
she soon became pet with the women,
and reconciled herself to this new life
in her moving canvas-cOvered home.
In the meantime, Terrier, having re-
covered from his privations, distin-
guished himself as useful guide and
an indefatigable hunter. So rapidly
did he gain the esteem of his new
that when they reached
the end Of their wanderings it was
agreed that he should be
provided with as large and as fertile
tract of land as any of the settlers,
with the exception of Young himself,
md of Stangerson, Kimball, Johnston
md Drebber, who were the four princi-
pal elders.
On the farm thus acquired John Fer
-ier built himself substantial log
house, which received so many addi-
tons in succeeding years that it grew
INTO roomy villa. He was man of a
practical turn of mind, keen in his
lealings and sli1lful with his hands
His iron constitution enabled him to
work morning and evening at improv-
ng and tilling his lands. Hence it
.ame about that his farm and all that
belonged to him prospered exceeding
Y. In three years he was better off
han his neighbors, in six he was we'll
20 do, in nine he was rich, and in
,welve there were not half a dozen men
n the whole of Salt Lake City who
could compare with him. From the