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Nov 2008
Blossom Like A Rose!
Posted in The Church Survives (1877-1890) by D Marriott at 4:33 pm |
Many of the pioneer Saints of 1847 had reason to question the seemingly hopeless prophesy of Brigham Young’s that the Salt Lake Basin would one day “blossom like a rose.” And yet four decades later it seemed dramatically fulfilled. The Department of Agriculture under President Benjamin Harrison awarded a five-hundred-dollar prize for the best five acres of wheat grown in the United States to William Gibby in Salt Lake County while a farmer in Spanish Fork, Utah County, won a cash prize for the best yield of potatoes per acre.
Hinckley, Bryant S., The Faith of Our Pioneer Fathers, p. 14
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