The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-07-29
HISTORIC. SPOT is
VISITED BY MANY
SPOT WHERE BRIGHAM YOUNG
SAID This is THE PLACE"
WITNESSED BY THOUSANDS
Emigration Canyon Near Salt Lake
City Noted as Place Where Pio-
neers of Years Ago First
Viewed Great Salt Lake

! Salt Lake-Seventy-f -four years and a
| day after that memorable morning of
July "a, 1S47, when Brigham Young
raised up from his sick bed in prim-
| tive priarie schooner at the mouth
of Emigration canyon and gazed upon
the valley of the Great Salt Lake.
thousands gathered Monday morning
on the same memorable spot and con-
frAied n conservation, song and
ritual their leaders prophecy that
"this is the place"
| The occasion marked the unwilling
Of shaft raised as an historical mon
ument upon the very spot where the
| pioneers Of AZ gazed for the first
time upon the valley of their destina-
| ton. The shaft is set amid the tumble
| weed and sage brush of the historic
| crest. 1t is made Of concrete set upon
| abase of native Utah granite. On the
face Of reproduction OF buffalo
skull are the words: "a Bulletin of
the Plains" Below is the Inscription:
''This is the place.--Brigham Young,
July "a, 1847"
The dedication of the monument was
under the auspices of the NJ. l. A. and
| other church organizations. President
Anthony w. WINS presided. The flag
draped monument was officially I'M
yelled by Elder Preston Nibley.
Ardm:nscent' account Of the arrival
Of the pioneers at the mouth Of Emil
| grafton canyon was given by w. w.
Ritter, who arrived in Salt Lake six
weeks after the party of President
Young. Mr.. Ritter came with his par
ents and was then Years old. He de-
clared there was no doubt but what
the spot selected for the monument
was the exact location where President
! Young uttered the words, This is the
place"
Mr. Ritter exhibited the original
guide, written by william Clayton III
which is designated and described tbs
spot where President Young stopped.
The speaker said that at the time
President Young was i'll with noun
tain fever and was lying in Il bed pre-
! pared for him in the wagon of Milford
Woodruff. When the spot was reached
upon which the monument stands to-
day, President Woodruff turned tho
side of the wagon around to permit
view to the westward. 1t was then,
according to Mr. Ritter, that the pioneer
IL I'D h., Hn, Of no
covering and after an extended survey
OF the valley said: st is enough, this
IS the place drive on"
Mr.sRiter declared that when he fol
lowed six weeks late and gazed upon
the valley from the same spot, til
sight TO his youthful eyes was aiczen
ing. He said he was convinced as a
boy That it was not the place.
Sand l was not Acne in that dismal
foreboding," he sad. There were
others Of stronger mould than I to
whom the valley looked lonely and dis.
mall
church historian gave an official ac-
count of the landing of the pioneers
in Salt Lake valley. He quoted from
the ledger accounts of President Young
and others of the party to substantiate
the accuracy Of the route and the To-
cation Of the spot where the party
stopped
Elder Roberts told of the planting
firSt ntot Otoh in no
a few days after the arrival Of the
pioneers. The valley he said. was ex-
plored by party of nine men under
the leadership Of Orson Pratt on July
-. two days before the arrival of the
main party.
true and official account of the
naming of Ensign peak was given by
the speaker. He said 1t did not ac-
quire its name through the raising Of
the Stars and Stripes, as was generally
believed. He declared the peak was
designated as n spot from which an
ensign to humanity would be raised.
Thereupon, he said. was subsequently
raised the standard Of Zion and the
hill cest designated Ms Ensign peak.
Several familiar L. DIS. hymns were
sung by the assembled throng under
the leadership Of Edwin p. Kimball
assistant tabernacle Organist and
grandson of Heber c. Kimball, one OF
the ~ pioneers.
The invocation was pronounced by,
Colonel Willard Young. a son of Presi-
dent Brigham Young. The benedic-
non was offered by Robert Sweeten.