---
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: 7
published: 1909-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "In the Wasatch Mountains—Devil’s Gate Bridge, Weber Canyon," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 7 (May 1909): 541.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1207unse
  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: improvementera1207unse
start_page: 541
end_page: 541
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1207unse
  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.
---

# In the Wasatch Mountains—Devil’s Gate Bridge, Weber Canyon

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                        A PHENOMENON IN OLD MEXICO.                                            541

  of at least eighteen feet. Even farther down where the force of
  the stream had lessened sufficiently to allow
                                                 the large pine trees
  to remain standing, the mud upon them showed
                                                   clearly that they
  had stood in water from twelve to fifteen feet deep.
             These results the writer actually saw and wondered at.
                                                                                              The
  description of          how it was brought about, is as it appealed to his
  imagination while viewing the scene, after having before
                                                                                     witnessed
  a water spout of smaller dimensions.

  Col. Juarez,      Mexico.

 In the Wasatch Mountains— Devil's Gate Bridge,            Weber Canyon, on the U. P. Ry.

        This grand structure, with huge beams of riveted steel resting side by side, span-
ning the deep, wide chasm, laughs at the hurricane's fiercest blast, and the baffled
roar of the torrent.          So firmly is it reared to endure,   — a giant   in strength   forever-
more!
            my soul, learn this hour a lesson from the bridge.        Cease buildiDg unto thee
unsubstantial structures that on the morrow will crumble and decay.                Let your life's
edifice be     founded on the rock of virtue, that        it   may withstand the cold world's
withering blasts, and be so firmly established upon the Rock that it shall endure for-
ever.       Claude E. Stuart, liintah, Utah.