Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-01-29
Friday. Jan. 40. 1900.
A WORD TOTHE LEGISLATORS.

There IL a chapter OF unwritten hls.
tory concerning the Branch Normal
School which 10 not generally known
TO the LEGISLATORS OF today. That bit
Of unwrItten history. however. shoss
clearly the spirit OF scarifce and self
denial coupled with determined am.
hilton which actuatad the people OF
this section Ia helping 10 establish
tho Normal School here.
When the decision was made that
the school be located In Cedar City
there was condition attached TO that
deoision. That condition was that
the people Of this section build q suit.
able place for the school 10 meet In
by tho beginning of the following
school year. The decision was made
In January. II seemed almost impos.
sible for the people TO live up to tho
requirements OF the condition. The
nslghborinR towns that had been riv-
ais OF Cedar In their attempts TO get
the school located In their immediate
vicinity, all declared that Cedar
would fall TO make good the require
ments. Aud indeed II did look
doubtful. There was no lumber on
hand, every particle OF tho material
was lacking aud on account OF the
unusually Indictment winter the noun
talns aud canyons we're heaped full Of
snow. Notwithstanding thess adverse
conditions the people OF Cedar. al.
most TO man. buckIed TO, won't into
the eanyone, got out the timber, -
sometimes wadlna In three or four
feet Of snow hauled u down the al.
most impossible roads. aud delivered
Il ready to DO used ne soon an spring
should break.
What man doss not remember that
trying wlntery What man would
have done the job for double his or
binary wage. had he not had some
peculiar interest In tho undertaking
other than dollars and cents. II
would be hard thing 10 do over
again now aud yet, no doubt. every
man would be willing 10 attempt the
same task II he knew the same glorl-
GUS results would follow such an un
dertaking, II was not for financial
gain, however, that the men aud boys
OF Cedar City and Vicinity wailowed
almost 90 the arm pit In snow that
winter getting out the material for
the building that had to be- compiet
cd 80 soon. ID was because OF the fact
that branch of the state Normal
school was promised; that southern
Utah was TO be given an Institution
OF higher learning; that the young
mon ot this great southern country
who oome from the ranch, the farm.
aud the sheep camp, might have some
OF the opportunities for higher sdu-
cation that their more fortunately 10.
Gated friends OF tho north have.
These were the motives underlying
the sacriiloe.
Aud all that has been done by the
people here. all that the state has
done, has been amply rewarded by the
lsplendld results that the school has
Wrought Ia the ethical and intelleo,
Etual development Of tho citizens OF
Southern Utah. There was time
mot far distant In the past when the
trough bronco. buster sort Of fellsw
was the Ideal In this section; but that
Itimo has gone. That sort OF fellow
has been compelled either 20 take on
"a little OF the stutf We call "eul
Iture, " OF DO relegated to hack scat
gnsar the door, There was time,
too, when works of literature we're
rare Ina our homes; when We we're
lcontent with the yankee Doodle, :"
marching through Georgia sort OF
Lmusio. Now scarcely home but
acontains the choicest masterpieces OF
literature. scarcely family that eau
not boast OF some member who can
pit down aud entertain you with
Beethoven's sonatas.
4 II you seek for the results the Nor
NAL has produced you will fnd them
In almost every homo In southern
NUtah What class Of students has Il
sent iorths Only few months ago
one OF the most prominent educators
Of the State who was IN position 70
know. declared that TO his knowledge
not single student from this school
bad failed "a make good In other
higher Institutions 20 which thew