History of Utah: comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory . ngland. Dickens meant by this, notonly that they were handsome and healthy, but measurably thriftyand prosperous. They were made up of the material generallycomposing the Mormon emigrant companies, namely: farmers,laborers, mechanics and tra
History of Utah: comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory . ngland. Dickens meant by this, notonly that they were handsome and healthy, but measurably thriftyand prosperous. They were made up of the material generallycomposing the Mormon emigrant companies, namely: farmers,laborers, mechanics and tradespeople, with a liberal sprinkling ofartists, musicians, writers and other professionals, representing thelower and middle classes. But there were many British proselyteswho, having little or nothing of this worlds wealth, were utterlyunable to pay their passage across the Atlantic. It was for thebenefit of such that the Mormon leaders, in the fall of 1849,established the since famous Perpetual Emigrating Fund, to which somany in this land owe their deliverance from a state bordering uponpauperism, and their subsequent rise in the financial and socialscale. Those aided by this fund were expected to reimburse it,—payingback into its treasury, as soon as they were able, the amountsexpended in their behalf; to be used for the benefit of other poor. C/^c*^/OC^^^^^^^ HISTORY OF UTAH. 417 emigrants. Thus was the fund made perpetuaL Many promisesto pay failed to materialize, some from sheer poverty, and othersfrom indifference and neglect. But the vast majority of those whowere aided duly discharged their obligations. Five thousand dollarswere subscribed to the Fund at its inception in October, 1849, andBishop Edward Hunter was forthwith sent to the frontier to put inoperation its provisions, and superintend the next seasonsemigration. The same fall many Mormon Elders were sent to various parts ofthe world.—mostly to Europe. As these were the first missionariesto go from the Roc
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