hundred of the 1847 pioneers. A memorial building was discussed on that occasion and Emily Richards gave five dollars towards its erection. This was the beginning of the building fund. Time went by. Flora B. Home became president in 1921 and many of the meetings held during her term of office were foc¬used on the building of a memorial. The beginning of the building dates back to February 25, 1921, when a joint resolution was passed by the Utah State Leg¬islature authorizing the governor to appoint a committee regard¬ing the finding of a suitable place for the preservation and housing of relics, documents, pictures, etc., pertaining to the his¬tory of Utah which had been preserved by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. This committee recommended a site on the Cap¬itol grounds for the building of such a relic hall. By 1920 the Daughters had accumulated many relics and were recognized as the one organization in the state of Utah who were saving the history and belongings of the pioneers. The first relic hall they used was a small Tithing Office room. Bishop Preston gave the women President Young's yellow bookcase and it was soon filled with precious articles. They quickly outgrew the space allotted. In 1906 Susa Y. Gates secured a place in the Lion House and Zina Y. Card became the custodian of relics. The next move was to a larger place in the Vermont Building where Dr. James Edward Talmage had re-established the Deseret Mu¬seum. The relics were later moved to the basement of the State Capitol. While displaying the artifacts that portrayed the in¬dustry, faith and characteristics of the pioneers under less than favorable conditions, the women dreamed of the building they hoped to construct- a building with dignity, simple as to lines, subdued as to color and spacious as to interior- that would look down in quiet dignity on the city below. On April 4, 1941, Kate B. Carter became president of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She, too, pledged herself to work wholeheartedly for the erection of the building and succeeded in obtaining a ninety-nine-year lease on the present building site from the Utah Legislature. Under her direction, permanent com¬mittees were named for the furtherance of the work. The women so named were to remain on the committees until the building was completed. During the year of 1942 the Daughters turned their efforts into war production work. Employment was high and they pushed their drive to raise funds. Paper and rag drives were in¬itiated in nearly all the camps and Daughters gathered and sold scrap iron and other metals from yards and discarded junk piles to further the war effort and increase their building fund. In 1944 a brochure was printed called The Pioneer Memorial Build¬ing. It contained pictures of some of the most historic relics and a resume of the accomplishments of the organization from the beginning. Ten thousand copies were distributed to the camps and counties to be sold. Meanwhile, building costs had gone steadily upward, neces¬sitating that the contribution to be furnished by the Daughters be increased to seventy-five thousand dollars. The legislature was asked to appropriate two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in order that construction might begin. The legislators and the governor responded and the state voted to sustain this request. Thus, on the beautiful afternoon of March 25, 1946, the ground-breaking ceremonies were held. Early in 1946, property owners in the neighborhood and others were protesting the proposed Memorial Building. Among their complaints was the question of the constitutionality of the use of taxpayers' money to help erect a building to be turned over to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. This caused much anxiety and delay, but eventually the question was resolved by the Utah Supreme Court in favor of the Daughters. Through the generous contributions of the state, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, many business es¬tablishments, private individuals and fund-raising drives by the members of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers themselves, the building was finally completed and ready for dedication July 21, 1950. Construction had cost approximately six hundred thousand dollars, but the contents of the building cannot be measured in terms of money. The architecture follows the pattern of the his¬toric Salt Lake Theatre erected in 1861-1862, which for many years was the center of Western culture. The Pioneer Museum has thirty-five exhibit rooms, each of which portrays some part of pioneer life in Utah. The pioneer library is one of the best in the western United States and contains many valuable books. The manuscript room gives evidence of religious, governmental and civic transactions. On the occasion of the dedication, Governor J. Bracken Lee, speaking "as a humble citizen and not as a governor," said, "It took courage, determination, resourcefulness and respect for their Maker to do what this organization has done." To Kate B. Carter, president, who was in charge of this undertaking, he added, "If I ever have an impossible job to do as governor, I am going to call upon Mrs. Carter to do it." Concerning the newly completed Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum, the following tribute to Kate B. Carter was published in the Deseret News of March 1950: "Its architectural beauty and commanding position will cause the most indifferent person to lift his eyes to higher levels It is the materialization of a long and beautiful dream. Maybe the dream began generations ago in the mead halls of the Vik¬ings where the deeds of warriors were preserved in song and story. At any rate, it was much alive when the parents of Kate B.