Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1913 — MORMON SHAFT FOR SEAGULL [ARTICLE]

MORMON SHAFT FOR SEAGULL

Brigham Young’s Bclon Plane Memorial to Sacred Bird of Sect— Exterminated Grasshoppers. —; New York.—lt to learned that Mahorrl Young, a grandson of Brigham Young, leader of the Mormon church, is at work tn this city modeling a unique monument to the seagull. This bird is sacred to the Mormons because it saved the first immigrants to Utah from a plague of grasshoppers. It is said that the monument, which will be carved, will cost 140.000. It will be placed in the grounds of the Mormon temple at Salt Lake City. With such

a costly monument the seagull apparently has a greater tribute of this kind paid it than any other bird. At the base of the one side is to be devoted to an inscription and the remaining three will have idw relief sculptures depicting the arrival of the Mormons in Utah, the saving of their first crop by the seagull* and the first harvest