100th Anniversary of the Settlement of Utah

Ith Anniversary of the Settlement UTAH SEA GUEL MONUMENT MORMON TEMPLE ALTHOUGH THE TERRITORY THAT IS NOW THE STATE OPUTAN WAS EXPLORED AS EARLY AS 1776,NO PERMANENT SETTLE MRENT WAS MADE UNTIL JULY 24, 1847. ON THAT DAY BRIGHAM YOUNG AND A COMPANY OF MORMONS ARRIVED IN THE VAL- LEY OF GREAT SALT LAKE AFTER A RIGOROUS OVERLAND JOURNEY FROM ILLINOIS AND STARTED TO ESTABLISK AR AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY. THE SETTLEMENT SURVIVED IN SPITE OF HARDSHIPS AND REVERSES. THE FIRST CROPS VERE DEVOURED BY A PLAGUE OF CRICKETS THE NEXT YEAR THE CRICKETS CAME AGAIN AND THE SETTLERS ABAN- PONED HOPE. BEFORE THE FIELDS WERE ENTIRELY STRIPPED HOWEVER, CLOUDS OF SEA GULLS ARRIVED AND, DEVOURING THE CRICKETS, SAVED THE COMMUNITY FROM STARVARON UTAN WAS ORGANIZED AS A TERRITORY IN 1849 ARD WAS GOVERNED AS SUCH UNTIL IT BECAME A STATE ON JAN41896 LAKE JUL 249 49-AM 1947 UTAH SALT UNITED STATES POSTAGE34 THIS IS THE PLACE - FIRST DAY1847 Miss Estelle Robertson 1323 Carr Avenue Memphis, Tennessee NIAL 1947