---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 1
number: 12
published: 1898-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Editor’s Table: Close of the First Volume", *Improvement Era* 1, no. 12 (October 1898): 940.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera112unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera112unse
start_page: 940
end_page: 940
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera112unse
  publication_year: 1898
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1898, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Editor’s Table: Close of the First Volume

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CLOSE OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
    This number of the Era closes the first volume of our
magazine.    In looking over the achievements of this first
year of the Era's existence a sense of gratification is experienced, because we feel that    all and more than all that v/as

proposed in its establishment has been accomplished.
     Every number of the Era has been in the hands of subscribers on the first of every month.
     We promised at the outset a magazine of sixty-four pages
per number; we have published one of eighty pages per number, with the exception of the first.
      We started at first, and with some   misgivings, to   publish a five thousand edition.   We increased the issue to seven
thousand, and had to reprint the first three numbers.
      We expected at the commencement to publish a magazine
of great value to the members of the Improvement Associations at home, but in addition to that, through the liberal
patronage on the part of the young men of the church, and
the generosity of the Era's friends who assisted in so noble a
purpose, upon the solicitation of the Editor and Manager of
the Era, we have supplied between sixteen and seventeen
hundred missionaries abroad with the magazine free, and have
by this means, in the first year of the magazine's existence,
made it widely known in all parts of the world, especially
wherever the English language is spoken; and a number of its
choicest articles have been translated and published in the
languages of continental Europe, by church publications
there.
     Increasing the size of the magazine enabled us not only
to publish more matter, but a greater variety of it.
     Sending it free to missionaries removed it from the position of being a merely local magazine, to one of general interest and world wide circulation.
     The developments attendant upon its first year's existence, has wonderfully increased its value as an advertising
medium, and our advertising patrons have received much
more than was promised in their contracts.
    The realization of its achievements has been so far beyond anything that was anticipated for it at the commencement, that it is not only with a feeling of gratification, but
also of astonishment that we review the first year's existence
of the Era; and it is with a sense of gratitude for the blessings of Almighty God upon this enterprise that     we see this
last issue of the first volume go to press.