---
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: 12
number: 4
published: 1909-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Prohibition in Utah," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 4 (February 1909): 301.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1204unse
  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: improvementera1204unse
start_page: 301
end_page: 301
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1204unse
  publication_year: 1909
  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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Prohibition in Utah

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PROHIBITION IN UTAH.
Utah has joined the movement for prohibition so manifest in the United
States during the year 1908, which has voted 11,000 saloons out of existence,
and added 325,000 square miles in area and 4,300,000 in population to "dry''
territory. The year 1909 began with eight prohibition states, and it will
likely end with nine more in line for state- wide prohibition — Utah and Idaho
included, let us hope. Hon. Heber J. Grant and Rev. Fuller, officers of the
National Anti- Saloon League, are hard at work, and already long petitions,
containing thousands of names of citizens from various parts of Utah have
come to the Legislature now in session, pleading for state-wide prohibition.
Leading organizations, including the Y. M. M.I. A., have taken up the battle cry;
and the fight in the Legislature will be earnest and uncompromising. A comparison
of the accompanying map with one printed a year ago in the Era will give the
reader a splendid idea of the growth of the temperance movement now sweeping
over the land with elements of permanence and effectiveness. It is taken from
the Anti-saloon Year Book, 1909. The black states are "wet," the partly black,
local option or partly "dry," and the white, "dry."
"WET" AND "DRY" MAP OF THE UIIITED STATES