The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-07-30
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than that which eliminated in the ju
bilee in Salt Kake City, last week. II
was most wonderful-not the jubilee
itself so much as the story it told Fifty
years ago little band of people who
were looked upon by the world as re-
ligious fanatics, to escape the persecu-
tions which seemed destined to destroy
them, left their homes in the Mississip-
pi valley and struck out across plains
mountains and deserts to found new
homes, more than thousand miles
from civilization, confronting unknown
dangers and hardships, hunger and
want, only seeking place wehre their
peculiar religious tenets, would not
subject them to humiliation and perse-
cution. Few or none of them had a
distinct idea of what the character of
the country was which they sought,
or what the nature OF the hardships
which they would be forced to endure.
They were, however, kept together by
the will Of one master mind, and as it
has proved, those hardy men, all of the
best Anglo Saxon blood, gathered prin-
cipally from New and old England,
had in them the material out of which
] the best nations of the world have
grown. Imagine this little band Of
men and women landing late in July,
fifty years ago, where they could look
down upon a picturesque but sterile
valley and over great body of water,
and pronouncing it, not land ofprom-
ise but their future home. Almost the
next day plows we're breaking rich
but arid soil and the first system of ir-
riSation ever inaugurated by Amer
leans was beginning to be planned with
out any delay. Crops We're planted
and visitation of cricllets began to
devour them. But focks or myriads
of gray sea gulls-birds still held al
most sacred in that valley-came to the
rescue of those hardy people, devoured
the crickets and averted starvation
The hardships Of planting these homes
and the trying times encountered by
these people for nearly u generation
are now history and very interesting
and instructive history at that. Eleven
years after the settlement was founded
these people, although loyal 10 the gov
ernment in all respects except that
they maintained u riShI oy Gi'ihe N
JuhcIloh 10 practlce Po4ysaiily' as'lh
became SuDJecoS OF persecuIioh' ana
Preslaent buchanan sent an army 10
ofliig theih uuder supjec1ioh' AiUer d
march oil more thah Thousand mics
over the. Cfail made oy the ploheers'
oroauenen oy Che ArSoAantS' that army
was kept IRON starVatioh by Purchas-
ing from the very men they came 10
puhlsh' supphes at heaVy COST ana
marched oacK again. 10 oe rehehloered
as one Oh Ihe most loollSh nascos III
American history.
With the religious notions Of these
people we now have little concern.
Their creed, now revised and its one |
very Objectionable feature eliminated,
Stands and flourishes. The reader is at
liberty to look upon it as he may, but
no longer to make it mark for perse-
cution any more than any other creed
which does not accord with his own.
But. behold. what a change half
a hundred years has wrought! Where
fifty years ago, under the shadows of
the snow-capped Wasatch. the virgin
was first disturbed by a plow. a
city eauipped with every
feature for the comfort and conven-
ience of its inhabitants which any mod
ern city can boast. stands proud and