--- 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: 9 published: 1909-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Wonders of Southern Utah," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 9 (July 1909): 743.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1209unse 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: improvementera1209unse start_page: 743 end_page: 743 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1209unse 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. --- # Wonders of Southern Utah PEOPLE AND PLACES OF 1HE ORIENT. 74J folding panorama. Diamond Head loomed up in its majestic greatness, and the cocoanut trees, dimmed by the distance, the flashing surf breaking upon the reef, the remote valleys with their veils of verdure, Punch Bowl, seeming so low because of its great girth, all combined to make an enchanting first impres- sion, that we enjoy but once, and afterwards we may reflect while we remember it as a beautiful dream: "Islands fair, Which lie like jewels on the Pacific deep, Fed by the Summer's suns and azure air." Honolulu, H. I. WONDERS OF SOUTHERN UTAH. northwest corner of sec. 7 Township Scene near the District of Henrieville, in the from the center of sec. 7. 37 South, and Range 3 West, looking northwest