The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-11

wood submitted a splendid design
worked out along suggestions made by
! Chairman Clawson. who viii go tC
| New York next week and Will Incl
dentally contract for 10000 of these
cups. They will be made from steel
and handsomely enameled. The de-
signs, which are emblematic of the
event, will be executed in many colors
and the cup will really be a gem in
every respect. On one side is a shield
with the likeness of a buffalo upon it.
| Indicating the state Of the country in
| 1S47. On the other will be the state
seal, beehive, flag and all, showing
the results of 80 years progress. There
will be handcartS, OK trains and pony
express pictured upon it and the In
dian in all his glory will be there. The
committee, as soon as a price on these
cups is fixed, expect to be loaded down
with orders. as only a limited number
will be placed upon the market.
THE FIRST BULLETIN.
The commission yesterday issued the
first bulletin on the progress being
made. Five thousand of these were or
dered printed and they will be sent all
over the country.
BULLETIN NO. L
The oath day of July. 1897, will be the
fiftieth anniversary of the arrival OF the
Mormon pioneer band in the valley OF
the Great Salt Lake, and 'Nill witness
the close of a five days celebration
which will eclipse in magnitude and
surpass in splendor all other celebra-
lions ever given in the United States
west of the Mississippi. On this oc-
casion it is proposed by the people of
Utah to commemorate the birthday or
western civilization and TO do honor to
the handful of Anglo-SaXonS who half
a century ago broke the first tran
from the Missouri river and, wrestling
the wilderness from desolation, laid the
foundation of the present greatness of
the mighty area between that river
and the Pacific coast.
Impartial history must always APP
plaud the courage of those pioneers ana
record their achievement as one of the
greatest since the discovery of the new
world. They departed from the borders
of civilization and unmindful OF saw
ages and needless of the desert, mount
aims and plain, toiled on until they
penetrated to the center of a wilder
ness almost three thousand miles in
extent.
For nearly twenty centuries the
Christian world has viewed with
amazement the journey of the children
of Israel from Egypt to the promised
land, DuI what was lHeli JOuiH ~
this? The land that Moses saw on that
pilgrimage dreary wastes that he
traversed measured in miles, were not
ecualled to those his great prototype,
Brigham Young, and his followers
forced through within the first 20 days
Journey from Council Bluffs.
Before this journey was undertaken
all that was known of the western por-
ton of the United States could have
been inscribed upon the ivory tablet
of a modern society belle. Vague ru-
mors placed in circulation by Coronado.
Father Escolante and La Honton, OF
wild humpbacked oxen and great inte-
rior seas were extant: but the mighty
mountains and the buried wealth with
in them, the broad plains of fertile
SOIL and the great timbered areas
which have since produced vast wealth,
were then wholly unknown.
After the journey-after the trail was
broken-came the emigrant train and
the pony express, and the stage coach.