--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Smith, George Albert collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 12 number: 1 published: 1908-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Smith, George Albert, "Redeeming the Waste Places," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 1 (November 1908): 48.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1201unse 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: improvementera1201unse start_page: 48 end_page: 48 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1201unse publication_year: 1908 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 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Redeeming the Waste Places 48 IMPROVEMENT ERA. Ranch home of Joseph Barton, Verdure, San Juan County, Utah. Looking-Glass Rock, San Juan County, Utah.