The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-04-18

son for this honor is explained by the
inscription on the bronze tablet at the
base of the statue. 1t reads as fol.
lows:
Here lived and gave her service
to mankind Segis Pietertje Prospect,
worlds champion milk cow. Born
1913, died 1925. Twice she regis
tered production records that set
her fame above all dairy cattle Of
any age. In each of two years she
exceeded 1880 quarts Of milk,
1,4O0 pounds of butter, yielding for
the two a total of 1892 quarts Of
milk, 2,S65.1S pounds Of butter.
Sired by king and Of purest Hol-
stein strain, she herself bore sons
and daughters of champion achieve
ment. Finest type of the noble,
patient animal that is most justly
named The Foster Mother of the
Human Race her queenly worth de-
served the gratitude in which this
tribute is erected by her owner,
Carnation Milk Farms, 1925"
In Salt Lake City, Utah, stands a
lofty granite column, on top of which
is a large granite ball upon which two
bronze birds, covered with gold leaf,
are gently alighting. On the four sides
of the base are bronze tablets, three
bearing bas-relief scenes of pioneer
days in the Salt Lake valley. One
shows the beginning of agriculture in
the arid West-a pioneer and his fam
lily and yoke Of oxen at work re-
claiming the desert soil. The Sec
ond shows the wheat fields overrun
by crickets. The pioneer man sits
with bowed head, on his face look
Of helplessness and grief. But the
pioneer woman is lifting up her face
to the skies as she sees a miracle
about to take place. Winging over
the mountains into the valley come
great flock of gulls. The third bronze
shows the harvest days. The gulls
have devoured the crickets, the crops
are saved and the pioneers in the will
derness will have bread. On the
fourth tablet are these words: "Sea
Gull Monument. Erected in grateful re-
membrance of the mercy Of God to the
Mormon pioneers" Thus this monu-
ment is an everlasting story in stone
Of one Of the most beautiful and dra-
matte incidents in American history
the story of how the gulls saved the
wheat fields Of Utah in 1913.
While monuments to horses, dogs,
cows and gulls are unusual enough,
there is one monument which Is abso-
lutely unique. There is only one mon
ument in the world to cheese! 1t
stands near the little city of Vimou-
tiers In the Camembert district of
Normandy, France, on the farm of a
certain Beau Moncel, where lived dur
ing the latter half of the Eighteenth
century Marie Harel, who is credited
with being the inventor Of Camembert
cheese. Not only is the fame of this
Norman milk maid commemorated by
this stone shaft on the farm where
she worked, but In Main Place in the
city Of Vimoutiers itself is a statue
Of her, back of which Is a stone bas-
relief showing the farmhouse on the
Marcel farm, where she was born in
1851, where she lived until her death
in 1917 and where she made the new
kind Of cheese which is now known
the world over.
These monuments were erected
through the efforts Of a New York
doctor, Joseph Knrim. For many
years he conducted sanatorium in
New York, where the only medicine
he gave his patients for all kinds OF
stomach ailments was Pilsener beer
and Camembert cheese. Because OF
his gratitude to the inventor Of the
cheese with which he made so many
people well and saved their lives, he
made a romantic pilgrimage to Vimou
tiers year or so ago, and the result
was this most unusual Of all mona-
mentS.