Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-17

~ ia poor railroad that hasn't its
Trademarks. and whether the road be
tnown by the keystone painted on
! ne freight cars, or the setting sun
..,,v over lts rails and Ties. there Is
.,methng Of q symbolic nature IN the
.Irn that becomes well known to those
..,, are acquainted with the country
,,bore lies the gravel Of the roadbed
,yhsn the Salt Lake Route takes ita
.lseo among MS sisters In the railroad
,.,,ld to be known by the arrowhead
not adorns its advertising literature,
,.orle win think OF the Indian design
,,novod IN the Santa Fe advertising,
.,a remembering that the new road
loads also through The southwest, will
.opsider the emblem appropriate be-
,,use of the lie OF the country along
side the route.
Few indeed win BE those who know
chat the design is not an indian em-
nem at all, but represents huge mass
ri. rock carved high In a San Berna-
5Ipo mountain by the playful hand OF
nature. And stlI fewer win be tho
,Ymber Of those who know that IN the
Galley below the mountain the rock
mass rs called the Mormon Arrow
t.,1 and that q legend is spun by the
.lt inhabitants about a struggling Dah0
W. "Aformons." the pathindgrs of the
,apthwest, who stopped beneath tho
mountain. stranded and almost dying OF
nunger aud that in answer TO their
,rayer TO God, they were told that the
.rrowhead pointed to the valley where
,tey should locate their city and mat
npt Of this prayer was born San Bernar-
5.no. founded and named by the Nor
mons I'm 1851
Tba story of the northwest has been
univ told. Its pathnnders have found
permanent places IN the wold's esteem
I'm honor Of the greatest OF them inc
lewis and Clark expedition isheld, ana
An the public schools children are told
the tales Of adventure and danger en-
countercd by The hunters ANA uappers
who worked their way across the pine
forests OF Washington and oregon
HONOR TO THESE MEN,
But because the pathhnders OF the
southwest We're men who had taken
fbe vow Of poverty and the curse or
fine world that they might believe What
WAS not popular the story o. itS dis
coyery must wait till the American peo-
ple are willing to confess unaslained
mat IL was "a Mormon colony that
buUt fort where Las Vegas station
win be situated, that II was band
Of "Mormons" that founded the city ANA
county OF San Bernardlno, and that 1t
WAS a battalion Of Mormon troops
that raised the American flag over Los
Angeles. and that brought the city into
the American Union
Another story that must walt the
telling tlll the barriers OF prejudice
shrlyel away Is the struggle OF Presi'
dent Brigham Young and his pioneers to
have railroad communication join the
Two American coasts For years pe0'
pie of the east and the west have heard
what "Mormonism' Is not, from people
whose environment has untitled them
10 comprehend It. They have buried
Utah inches deep IN tracts TO save The
Mormon" people from ignorance OF
which they were not guilty and moral
ideals I'm which they did not believe,
and with which they were In as great
revolt as the well meaning people who
have directed appeal and invecllve
against them.
RECLAIMING WASTE PLACES.
The salvation Of the Mormon" peo-
p.e has been that they have not be-
lieyed as was accused, and have not
latn busy I'm the things for which they
were attacked but have gone steadily
forward IN lines of Industry, home
building. settlement of waste places
and progress back into The world from
which &c was hurled into the sagebrush
deserts of Utah IN 1916, until now the
chief city Oh the Mormon people N
the chief city of the mountain country
and her resources demand a new route
Joining her 20 the country stretching
10 the southwest and to the sea.
FOUNTAIN OF EARLY HOPE,
The opening Of this road fulnlls much
Of early Mormon hope and promse.
Brigham Young has been accused Of
seeking isolation IN the shadows of the
Rocky mountains, Full many are there
who win tell the story Of a Mountain
Meadow massacre, which occurred miles
from any Mormon settlement and in
the heart Of an Indian country, and
which was duplicated all along the
route TO California. and In which only
one renegade Mormon cast out FROM
the Church, and a wanderer with In
dIans, participated But while hostility
lives who will there be to tell the story
Of H0hns Mill massacre and the death
Of the founders Of 'Mormonism,' and
the sorrow laden trail Of the handcart
companies from Illinois 70 Pioneer
square?
THE BATTALION MARCH.
Brigham Young was accused IN this
spirit of seeking isolation from tho
world, The loyalty OF his people no
proved by sending out 800 OF his strong
est men from their camp I'm the winter
Wilderness at Council BUNS, to march
through the southwest In the war
against Mexico, His desire for recon-
necuon with the world and the Ameri-
can people he proved by sending out
TWO exploring parties TO seek a wagon
route and railroad route to southern
california, and 20 southern Utah. IN
formation gathered by these companies
he included IN memorials TO Congress
asking Tor trauscontinental railroad
nearly IL years before the first wedding