7. Some of you will live to go and assist in making settlements and build cities."

Of the fifty or a hundred men who heard this prophecy uttered at Montrose on August 6th, 1842, it may not be definitely known how many came to the present state of Utah. A considerable number, however, are known to have participated in the building of this commonwealth in its larger aspect. Samuel W. Richards, Shadrach Roundy and Anson Call were witnesses to the original prediction. These three names are interwoven with the history of the Saints in building this " inland empire."

There never was a more conspicuous fulfillment of prophecy in all history. Five or six great States arise majestically out of the deserts and upon the mountains to proclaim its fulfillment. In Utah alone, there are twenty-eight counties, containing in all four hundred and twenty-five cities, towns and hamlets. Many of these identical centers of population were laid out, built and peopled, in part, by the very men who heard the prophecy at Montrose. Near half a million people now live within this one commonwealth whose very existence here is directly connected with this remarkable prophecy.

Along with this State, others have arisen of equal promise and importance in one way or another. Idaho, whose population approaches the half-million mark, with 100,000 people of Utah origin permanently abiding there; Arizona, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, California, all containing generous numbers of descendants from the founders of this inter-mountain empire. The presence of this great populace in the empire of the plains, proclaims with the voice of the millions the divine inspiration of Joseph Smith. Perhaps, not one lives today who heard the prediction, but all can read it, and the whole world may behold its fulfillment.

In the diary of Arson Call the prophet is said to have predicted that he (Call) would assist in building cities from one end of the country to the other." As a striking fulfillment of that particular prophecy we cite the biography of Mr. Call as written for Tullidge's History of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. Upon Mr. Call's arrival in what became Utah, he settled in what is now Davis County. His original homestead and descendants are still there. His worthy descendants have spread over the whole county. In 1850 he was settling in Little Salt Lake Valley, as well as in Parowan. He moved to the northern part of the state, but was subsequently placed in charge of a colonizing company of fifty families to settle in the Pauvine Valley. In 1851 he assisted in laying the foundation of the city of Fillmore, Millard County. There he built roads, constructed mills and developed farms. In 1854 he established Call's Fort, in Box Elder County, and in 1856 was sent to Carson Valley on a great colonizing expedition. He came back to Utah County in 1858, and in 1864 was engaged in colonizing in Colorado and southwestern Utah. Tullidge, the historian, says of him: "Such men as Anson Call make history. They are peculiarly adapted to the colonizing of new countries to laying foundations of empires in a wilderness. " Speaking of Davis County, one of the richest in the state, he continues regarding the work of Mr. Call thus: "He had been an important factor in the development of its resources, and he had arrived at a period of life when a man is generally less capable of great and continued exertion. "

Joseph Smith's prophecy concerning the life's work of Anson Call is almost as complete a biography as that recorded half a century later by the historian. What is prophecy but history reversed?