Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-15

+ No. %. Portrait of Ezra T. Benson.
pioneer and colonizer. (1811-1S69).
y No. %. Portrait OF Jedediah NJ.
Grant, first mayor of Salt Lake City.
4 1S16-1S56).
y No. "a. Portrait of Gen. Daniel H.
Wells. first commander of the Utah
militia, and for 10 years mayor of Salt
Lake City. IS14-1891)
No. 20. Portrait of Gen. Charles c..
Rich. colonizer5 in Utah, Idaho, and
southern California. 1So9-1Ss
No. 20. Portrait of Erastus Snow,
pioneer, colonizer and statesman 1873
1883. II
No. 81. Portrait of Franklin D. Rich
ards, editor and Church historian. QS2l-
1899.
No. %. Portrait Of George @. Cannon.
editor, orator. congressman, and for
over 20 years one Of the First Presi-
5dency of the Church. us27-19o
No. 90. Group portrait of Joseph II.
Smith, John r. NWinder and Anthem III.
Lund. now the First Presidency of the
Church.
No. 80. Group portrait Of the present
twelve apostles Of the Church. W
No. 81. Portrait of John Smith, the
present patriarch OF the Church.
No. 80. Group portrait of the first
council of seventy, the third general
quorum of the Church.
NO. ID. Group porlralLsOI the present
presiding bishopric of the Church.
No. 81. Group portrait of the three
pioneer women: Harriet Page Wheeler
Young, Clara Decker Young and Ell
len Sanders Kimball. These We're the
only women of the pioneer company,
and We're respectively the wives Of
Lorenzo D. Young, Brigham Young
and IIeber c. Kimball
5 No. 49, Album, containing portraits
of prominent Mormons, men and wo-
men, connected with the reclamatio
of the arid west.
No. sc. Album, containing illustra-
tions of temples, churches, schools,
homes, public buildings, and other
STRUCTURES built by the Latter-day
region. AZ "a
No, 81. The Book of Mormon press!
Upon this press was printed the first
edition OF the Book of Mormon, held
by the Latter-day Saints to be the
Bible of the western hemisphere as
the Hebrew Scriptures are the Bible OF
the orient. The original edition of
Smith by Egbert B. Gradin at
Palmyra, New York, in 1890
No. IS. Photograph or specimens of
the coins of Deseret. These coins We're.
issued by the Provisional State of
Deseret. the first civil government in.
iititIStShS lcSlOu,
ed in March, 1S4S, and continuing un-.
til April. 1851, when it was merged in
to the government OF the Territory of
Utah, The coins in question We're of
unalloyed virgin gold, and We're de-
signed merely for local use. Crucibles,
and dies, used in the mintlng. We're
made at SaltsLake City. and the metal
came from the newly opened Califor-
MIA gold mines. They We're not intend
ed to supersede the government coins
and when legal money became avail
able. they We're called in and disposed
OF as bullion to the federal mints.
No.: 80. First paper money in the
west. These bills We're issued at Salt
Lake City just prior to the organiza-
ton OF the Provisional Government OF
the State of Deseret. An attempt had
previously been made to coin gold dust
but the crucible used in the process
broke, and paper money was then is
sued. The first bill--one dollar-bore
the date of Jan. i, 1S49. The issue was
5authorizd by a body known as the
Municipal Council which was then at
tending to the public business.
Is No. 40 Bulletin of the plains The
pioneers, while crossing the plains in
s1S47, occasionally used the skull of u
dead buffalo as an improvised post
Office in which to deposit messages for
their friends who followed them This
exhibit illustrates an incident of that
historic journey.
+ No. H. HlstrociaI sketches. showing
the migrations and achievements OF
the Mormon people from the State OF
Vermont TO the Pacific coast,