Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-19

N N I point OF view is Just heneatn
IV the cliffs, and perhaps 1000
feet above Provo city. The
occasion is a notable one. for
struggling along a zg-zag trail below
me are 400 students and teachers Of the
Brigham Young university. engaged In
passing buckets up the mountain side
buckets filled with Stacked lime AT the
head of the column are men spreading
the lime, Already one fork of gigBn-
tic Y Is covered, a fact that may be
noted soon from both ends of the
county. II Is the beginning of the
legend b, Y. t.. which, In white and
blue, the university colOrs will adorn
the mountain side, and announce TO all
tourists passing through to east or west
what one great thing Provo is celebrat-
cd for
II is q tremendous undertaking, Each
letter will be $50 feet long, and wide
IN proportion. The committee appoint
ed 90 investigate By the student body
made preliminary surveys, ana calcu-
lated the costs. Up tin then the project
had seemed easy. The mountain, as ev-
cry visitor knows, vs. unusually steep,
and nothing short Of the highest point
available ON its western slope would
satisfy these ardent enthusiasts
THE scheme is practical announced
the chairman to a mass meeting VI stu-
dents a few mornings ago. that Is,
II we've got the sand TO put II through"
A student rose to point OF order.
He wanted to eliminate the III"
Wait till you hear our report To
cover those letters one inch deep with
Stacked lime win require so loads IScn.
sation. The lime will be free to us, zap
pause.l BY putting eight horses 10 a
load, we can haul the lime above the
foothills TO the bottom Of the moun-
tain. After that the distance IL not
far---only about six blocks. II the buck
ct brigade is placed along a straight
line. fAnother sensational But we have
discovered an old trail which. though
1t makes the distance twice as great,
viii we think, make the work easier,
Needless TO say that II we undertake
this work every man Of US must turn
out"
The students We're IN no mood for IFS
or doubts, Their zeal had recently been
whetted IN demolishing the '01 which
the members Of that class had auda-
ciously put on the hills below, with the
delicate intention as II now appears
Of focusing attention on the larger pro-
iect The motion to put Y on the
mountain this year carried like a whrl-
wind
But all realized that II was a big
days undertaking; so after apportion-
ing the work among the various classes
the students voted two very important
items OF self-denlal upon themselves.
First. every man must start from Pro-
No at 8 o'clock a. M; second, the girls
We're not, as on previous occasions, to
be present in the guise Of lunchbearers
ana sweet encourageTs. To be 'en-
couraged by young lady students is a
delightful sensation. but ii takes time.
As a compensation to the fair sex, they
are to be permitted to spread their
banquet al the foot Of the mountain
about sunset this evening, and so they
also have their part. The latter device
Is surely cunning contrivance to
hearten the flag end Of the work.
The boys nearly all turned out on
time, a circumstance best attestod by
the fact that the oak brush had been
cut. the surface cleared and the letter
framed IN rock before the sun came
over the mountain. For time clouds
hung la2ily on the mountanside and It
threatened rain. Then came sunburst.
lighting up the valley, and your CORE
spcndent. who Is peculiarly sensitive
To glimpses of paradise on the earth
plane dropped his rake to gaze at the
transformation.
At the risk Of neglectlng my theme. !
must devote a paragraph or two In an
attempt to portray what ! saw. II viii
have at least this connection, that II
viii indicate now richly the senses of
he workers were rewarded whenever
for a moment they chose to look at the
panorama before them,
over the valley hung a mist, which
so far from obscuring, served only "a
heighten It's charms. The Oduirrh
mountains on the west were visible on
ly In hazy outline, while in front the