Correct Placing of the Monument, Pioneer View

By Elder Alma EldredgeIf it would be admissible, President Ivins, I would like to give my evidence to substantiate, further, the remarks of Brother Riter. President Ivins: Proceed, Brother Eldredge. Brother Eldredge, continuing: Ephraim Knowlton Hanks went around with the Battalion. He arrived in Salt Lake, re- turning from California, before the Pioneer company started to return to Winter Quarters. When he reached the first com- pany of families, coming West, which was Daniel Spencer's fifty— (he was an own cousin to my father, and a young man) he stopped with the train and came back with the company. The night the train camped at the foot of the Big Mountain, he told the men how they could look over the valley here, when they should emerge from this canyon. Three of them were terribly anxious to have a "look;" and the first thing in the morning they got on their horses. There was one horse for Ephraim Hanks; he took me on the pony behind him; and they came down through here (indicating), about ten o'clock in the morn- ing. He turned a kind of a horseshoe and came around up this swale, and when he got here he said: "Cousin, here is where President Young stopped and looked over the valley, and said, "This is the place." (Applause) President Ivins: I feel quite certain that these few clouds and this little sprinkle of rain [a little thunder shower passed over during the exercises] would have been very welcome to the Pioneers seventy-four years ago; so we will not worry aboul that.