The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-25

of Utah. Next will come parade of
10, 900 children, showing "Utah's best
corp. Then an Illuminated parade of
floats, the various parts of which will
have been immersed in Salt Lake ten
days and covered with saline crystalliza-
lions. After that the twenty seven coun-
| ties will parade, and as many floats will
| show what the counties are doing. In
the afternoon of that day everybody will
go to bathing resort at the lake and
wash in the brine.
| Last and greatest will be Pioneer Day
| great parade, including all that has
been seen before, with state militia and
government troops from Fort Douglas,
and many unique features added. The
| evening will be given to fireworks.
| Among the curios that will be seen in
the parade of Pioneer Day will be some
remnants of machinery used in the pro-
duction of the first beet sugar made in
America In 1851, Elder John Taylor,
later Brigham S successor as president OF
the Church of Jesus Christ OF Latter day
Saints, enlisted Utah men IN the hope
of making sugar from beets. He got the
idea in France; had the machinery made
in England. and shipped it to New Or
leans in 1859. 1t was sent up the lver to
Kansas City, and hauled from that point
to Salt Lake ON ORLEANS. 1t was set up
here in 1858, and sugar was made from
peets grown in the valley, but the expert
ment was not successful, and the ma.
chinery was diverted from the original
purpose, Relies of it will be seen IN this
show.
In 1869 Utah mechanics constructed
nail machine, which made tenpenny and
single nails out of old wagon tires, and
the nails scld SO fast at 80 and 60 cents
than the supply. Remnants of this Old
machine will add to the wonders OF
Pioneer Day.
The first carding machine in Utah was
brought out by Brigham Young in 1S4S,
and its remains will be seen July "a, 1897.
But the grandest carding machines ever
seen in Utah, and equalled only in the
days OF the American Revolution, II we
can trust history, were the patient. tire
less, hopeful Mormon women, who for at
least fifteen years after the coming OF
Brigham. in 1847, made the unique textile
fabrics which clad the Mormon popula-
ton. have listened with wet eyes to
the tales Of. women, now gray. who
told me Of their early trials in this new
world. This celebration is in honor OF
Brigham Young, and those who came
with him in 1847. But all who came in
that year started out for the unknown,
and were thus fully prepared. The real
hardships of Mormon emigrants came
later; and the trying times in Utah ex-
TENDED from lS41 to 1865, IN winch year
the last terrible raid of grasshoppers END
ed. These Mormons came without sheep,
and wool was scarce. Stock of all kinds
was equally scarce, and when beef was
killed watchful mothers were on hand to
see what became of the hide. When the
hide was tanned the mothers carefully
gathered up the hair, took it home, dried
it, and carded it with the old-fashioned
knee cards, intermixing just enough wool
to make the stuff hang together. Out OF
that they made cloth, and fashioned that
into garments for their families. Deluded
they may have been; fanatics perhaps
they were, but in modern times there is
nothing that will compare with the devo-
ton, abasement and self sacrifice of the
Mormon women who upheld Brigham
and his twelve apostles through the
twenty years following the death of Jo-
seph Smith at Carthage, ILL.,, in 1874