Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-24

dllll' Dul WllGIC inc water ldlleu
vegetation was dried up. The dricr
places swarmcd with very large
crlckcts, as large as q mans thumb;
some Of the surrounding mountains
were capped with snow; to the
northward were great numbers of
hot springs, and as the lake was APP
preached the level became unfit Tor
agricultural purposes. When the
explorers returned to the Pioneer
camp, they found it pitched in the
valley, about five and a quarter miles
from the mouth of the canyon, and
two miles south of where the city
and county building nowis. The road
omctcr showed the distance from
Winter Quarters TO be Jo54 miles.
On the return trip across the plains,
the route measured by the road
ometcr was 1882 milcs--the exact
distance now travelled over nearly the
whole course, via the Union Pacific
railroad from Omaha to Ogden.
With the dawning of the following
day John Pacl; and Joseph Matthews
were sent back to President Young,
to inform him Of the situation, while
the leaders in the camp prepared to
carry out his instructions. He had
directed them to bear to the north
and pillow and plant. They were
not far enough north, so they
moved two miles in that direc-
ton, settling down in the locality
near the present intersections of State
and East Temple streets with Third
South street, on the banks of a
branch of the stream afterwards
called City Creek.
Early in the forenoon a meeting
was called, to render praise and
thanksgiving to the Almighty for
His mercies; and truly the hearts Of
the Pioneers were filed with graft
tude. Elder Orson Pratt offered up
a soulful prayer to God, returning
thanks for His preserving care and
guidance from the Missouri river to
the valley, and the Apostle then
and there dedicated the camp, and
the land to which they had come,
with all it contained, to the Lord
praying that He would bless and
make it a land Of peace and plenty
to the Saints. Committees were ap-
pointed to attend TO various duties,
and orders were given to plow the
land. A rush was made to begin,
and in a short time several plows
were in operation. George w.
Brown, VIM. Carter and Shadrach
Roundy ran the first burrows that
were plowed by white men in the
valley Of the Great Salt Lake. 1t
was done on East Temple street,
where the latter is now crossed by
First South street.
The weather was hot, 90 in the
shade, and the ground dry. Several
plowshares were broken in the hard
soil, so dam was made in the
creek, and the ground soaked, max
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