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11506 [i] (1951)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset22708 and id is 1 raw text is: ADDRESS BY CHAIRMAN DR. HOWARD R. DRIGGS President, American Pioneer Trails Association, Inc. My FEu.ow AzlcAns, this historic occasion is one of moment for not only Utah and her people, but for all Ameri- cans. Pioneers who settled our Beehive State came from every State east of the Mississippi River. Fully three-fourths of those who first went into the West and through the magic of irrigation made the desert blossom as the rose were true sons and daughters of the American Revolution. Their immediate forebears under General Washington had fought to place the first thirteen stars in our flag. And these pioneers who helped to carry our civilization from sea to shining sea played their heroic part in helping to add ten more stars to Old Glory. Time does not permit amplify- ing this statement now except to say that Utah in the begin- ning included much of the region between the Rockies and the Sierras, and her pioneers settled even beyond this expanse. Hardly a year had passed after the vanguard under Brig- ham Young entered the Salt Lake Valley, when the corner- stone of this magnificient monument to the Father of our Country was laid, with President Polk officiating. Then came a call for all Americans to participate in its erection. Utah was among the very first to respond to this call. Immediately after its organization as a Territory in 1850 a fine stone from the Temple Hill at Manti was prepared. On it was carved the word Deseret and a Beehive (Utah's symbol) and Holiness to the Lord. Yesterday as I was leaving New York for this appointment, I received a postcard from Dr. John Zimmerman Brown, my eight

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