The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-25
IT LEARNsAA LITTLE.

sOFL 70 FezG !tselL away from !'9 @-N-
occupation of promoting stale false
hoods While the present turn OF the
church organ is principally due to neces-
sity. for the reason that the falsIty Of
she antiquated yarns has beer so otter
( exposed within recent years, some credit
is iue co that paper in that Il has
tat length partially discovered the er-
ror OF its former ways II this respect.
On Saturday evening the church or
gan had halfway sensible editorial
article on the subject OF the Mormon
pioneers. We say halfway sersi-
bic. because the old tendency IS yet
so strong IN the News that it coUld
rot review the story without permitting
son1s gross Inconsistencies co creep into
the article However, II opened With
quotation from the personal Journal
of the late President Wiltord Wood
-uff. who was one OF she first band
of Mornous 70 enter this valley. OF
5he occasion Of entry into this region.
President Woodruff says, as reproduced
| in the News:
| We zzzed win wonder and Admiration
| upon the vast fertile valley spread out
before - tor about twenty-five niles
/ II length and sixteen niles II TIGthr
/ clorhed With Z heavy garment % veEe-
tzcicC. and n the midst % TEicn z-lst-
/ s1cd tire waters o< the Great salt Lake.
! with mountains al around toPsrins 20
/ the skies. ard streams. rivu.ets and
creeks a p-.e water running through
! the bea CtisCI Wiley
Daring all the years Of the long ago
e--fT z.--T-zl
scriptiou bv WiIford Woodruff, pre-
ferriuE 70 tell how the Mormon ''pio-
aeers" sew here nothing but Darched
| and forhiddinE desert, uzirvitInE even
70 the hardest and most eheerfully
op-ia1istic fronriers-zr- Bat repeated
rsSutatious Of that story. made By The
Tribune. backed BY proofs Including
| the statement q President woodruff
and the descriptions of others of the
I rli=r settlers. caused the News 20
[ gradually -urr about unit! HOW u -
aIonz about hallway toward aGnlssIou
az tie truth We have always adVo-
Gated that al proper k0uor and credit
/ BE- paid 20 the Normoa '-pio-sers FOR
their splendid achievements n thIs re-
/ zioz. but We have never believed u
| Wing about TIE mztter II order 20
/ coucoct Al undue Qualification that did
not sit the case We urge that TO-DAY
all cicizsus JON II showing 20 tEsn
ne-ited respect, as pionserz AID tIrs5
settlers. but lot as sectartes-
/ But having apparently forgotten tae
attractive picture presented By WIlforf
Woodruff. and wiki whick it opened It's
article. the News subsequently, goes CT
70 say that .sOue of the ua.sstatsnsa-s
given 20 visitors BY 5hose whose envy
aud hatred DO not permit thsnI % give
\ even 20 TIE piouze-s Z modIcum %
praise. is this. that salt Lake valley
vas most inviting plaza" And that
TOO. mind you. after i had printed the
glowing description gIvsE by President
Woodruff, He vas ore Of the ''p:o-
uee-s.' and surely he was rot pos
sessed OF such envy and hatred as
60 fupeI him 20 be the author of "one
q the missratenezts given &C visitors ~
As the English language s commonly
lcouscrue6. 1[r Woodruff certainly aut
,.-qr.zIifIedIy declares that Salt Lake
valley was most inviting PLACE
Contrast the WoodruE description. wit
ter from personal observation II Is47
WITH that volunteered and substituted
therefor IN 1910 By she Dsse-ss News
editor. who came here from ScanfIua7ia
A ssv years ago says rEs latter gan
tleuzu. IL was "a broad and barren
plain Eemusd II By mountains, blister
Ing n TIE burning rsTs q the 11idsU11
uer sun In WEi5ney's 3 History Of
Utah, voI1us !, page 327~s- Wltort
Woodruff IS quoted as SAYING. cit va
: The xrzu5esr view We had ever seer
till this n-duent:" and sfPresideu
Youag expressed his entire satizEzc
rIor az the appearance % the vale,
as z rssclzz place for rhs saints an
tel- amply rs1zii for MS Journey
Eus there IS other testimony 70 TIN
effect.
Tie following appears \ The Memoir
q General John c Fremont Part "
page 239. uzder date of September Il
Is43. GeuerzI Fremont had explors'
this region 4 number az years befor
Z The advent of rhe Mormon .'piausers
: n 1s+7- His observations are int@c
: zstinz and elEEh-snInz-
y Taxing leave a. tqis Doiu- o( re water
5s Eeac rivz-. and Gt re zsoE-zptllca
hz=i- xf-.cz iuclos=s the System q river
ard crzeks Ehfch Belongs % the G-=a
= Sz-r Lake and vl1:ch -1c1lT deserve
!. sy-rrrz detailed ard ample ec0lo alton
can say Cf Ir. r. general terms rlar =
borr1r1s q tlI.z riEe--t6e 8-ar-s!
i some 0C r-e cracks WHICH : saw cor-I
rzrI.-aL r=stirZ ard recruiting station q
travellers 10W. and al TINE % come
The -cC-cc1s 5r= extensive. Nzts- -
: ceuenr timber sufficient. TIRE soil goo
ard we'll zfa1rzt 70 TIE g-7.-a At
= grasses srIiCsr5 70 such an elevated -zz.ol
: 4 military post and a civilized serJis
: rr=rr would oe u grszr value Geres zr
- ca .rIz z-[ -nrEes would DO well Ti-s-
ZzEs and sal- r1Gc1 abound
The lake VII furnish ezilasIsri=Ss sur
plies % salt II the mountain sides Re.
IS are covered wl-sf 4 valUable arirrtt.GJ
4 z-zzs ca.Ie,. Bunch Z-sss from r!:e n5-7
II which ir gTCTs. viTlcE has Z ssc5r
D Z-7vr!1 = rns <al- The beasts a "a
n india vers "a upon r. our own Sour
4 z-cd su5sis-euce, ard rs quantity "