Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-25

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Before leaving Santa Fe rations were
reduced to one-half. and finally To one
quarter allowance, the meat issued TO
the troops being the flesh of such ami
mails as were unable 10 proceed farther.
though their hides and entrails were
eagerly devoured, being gulped down
with drafts of water when water could
be had While suffering these hard
ships the men were compelled TO carry
their own knap-sacks, muskets and
extra ammunition, and sometimes to
push the wagons through heavy sand
or help TO drag them over mountain
ranges. Passing through New Next
can pueblo on the gath OF October some
of the men We're almost as naked as on
the day Of their birth. except for a
breech- clout, or as their colonel termed
1t, a center clothing" tied around the
loins.'
SOLDIERS TESTIMONY.
Following is what Lieut. COL st.
George Cooke said TO the battalion, in
general order issued Jan. 30 ls41:
History may be searched I'm vain
for an equal march of infantry: nine
tenths Of II through wilderness,
where nothing but savages and wild
the want OF water there is no living
creature. There with almost hopeless
labor We have dug deep wells which
the future traveller viii enjoy. Without
n Eulut WHO mas lfdNtEStu tleUl. We
have Ventured into trackless prairies
whore water was not found for sew
eral marches. With crowbar and pick
AK In hand, we have worked our way
over mountains which seemed to defy
aught save the wild goat, and hewed
a passage through n chasm of living
rock more narrow than our wagons
Are men OF this kind disloyal? Could
they be untrue to their country?
no hot fnsI
mate such thing. The service per
formed was a grand and heoric ex-
hibition OF fortitude and fidelity to |
Every attempt to belittle |
that exhibition of loyalty. courage and !
devotion to the right will utterly fall |
UTAH THE JEWEL.
"Oh Utah the Jewel fthe Rockies,
On this thy natal day, we salute thee.
We have today in Utah over 400. 600
happy and prosperous American citi-
zens. climate unexcelled In all the |
world. Mounplns filled with precious
metals, hundreds of miles OF graded
Ind shaded avenues. with their iron
lrms reaching out for the traffic of a
mountain empire, with their reduction
furnaces. their clanking FORCES, their
,usy factories, their thousands OF
homes, their free libraries
heir homes OF art, industry and trade
heir trOlleN cars propelled DN electric
ty their farms and orchards the envy
4 the eastern husbsndman. These and
ther Industrial developments lived In
he brain OF Brigham Young when So
ears ago he looked from the summit
I the Big Mountain upon the salt
AXE valley and exclaimed, Enough,
his is the right place
II see in the future n stll greater
itah. with millions of people living
within her borders: with Industries
OF today thriving and pros
erous; arid and barren lands Of to-
ay producing bounteous harvests;
very corner OF the state reached by
all: oil produced and used as fuel:
mines In places not thought !
r today, and all her citizenship will
lank God that they form part OF so ,
Apply. contented and prosperous a
This can only be
rought about by unity OF purpose OF
i the people. E.
WEAPONS OF PEACE
"Sons and daughters OF the pioneers.
Ir fathers were pioneers In freedoms
use. They subducd nature in this
lderness of the Rockies, conquered
g savage. spread out from valley 10
Illey. and met and overcame unseen
obloms with courage and determina-
IN Their weapons were not the
Der, the musket and the cannon; they
ere the hoe. the pillow and the scythe.
ieir ammunition was not deadly
WIDER and ball, but living water and
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