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At the Point of the Oquirrhs

Improvement Era, vol. 13, no. 8, June 1910, pp. 747 to 748

Lambourne, Alfred

AT THE POINT OF THE OQUIRRHS. SKETCH BY ALFRED LAMBOURNE. At the "Point of the Mountain," as we call the place where the Oquirrh Range stoops and ends at the shore of the Inland Sea, is the subject of the above sketch. The old rock house was a mail station in the years gone by. It has seen changes in the land since the days of the western Jehu. On the hillside, about a mile westward of Garfield Beach, is the well-known "Cave." It was once a place of sepulture, used as a burial place by the aborigines. The herd boys knew its secrets. On the right side of the sketch is shown a deep opening in the limestone cliffs, a corral fence across it. This is reported to be quite a deep cave, but whose entrance, a few feet back, has been walled up for quite a number of years. What its secrets may be none at present seem to know. The sketch was taken looking southward. To the north stretches out the Inland Sea.

Photo by Shipler. BRIGHAM YOUNG AND PIONEER MONUMENT, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. C. E. Dallin, sculptor, unveiled July 20, 1897, cost about $36,000. "Brigham found himself, in possession of qualities which we find present primarily in all great men — intellectual force, mental superiority, united with personal magnetism, and physique enough to give weight to will and opinion; for Brigham Young was assuredly a great man, if by greatness we mean one who is superior to others in strength and skill — moral, intellectual or physical.'' — Bancroft's History of Utah, p. 201.