--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Anderson, David B. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 12 number: 12 published: 1909-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'David B. Anderson, "In the Uintah’s—One of the Three Lakes at the Head of Lakes Fork," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 12 (October 1909): 988.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12012unse 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: improvementera12012unse start_page: 988 end_page: 988 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12012unse 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 Uintah’s—One of the Three Lakes at the Head of Lakes Fork 988 IMPROVEMENT ERA. ciples, aye, even the corner stones of this great nation, viz. , its political economy, its religion, and the home, most persistently assailed by those professing great knowledge; and if such teach- ings continue without interruption, and against the decided pro- test of an enlightened people, another decade will, I firmly be- lieve, find this the greatest of all nations under heaven, trembling in the balance between progression and decadence, with the chances very much favoring the latter. Most pertinently does Emerson say, "the very hopes of man, fche thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind, are all at the mercy of a new generaliza- tion." And well may we exclaim, "Are we drifting, or going head- long to destruction?" Denver, Colo. Photo by David B. Anderson. In the Uintah's— One of the Three Lakes at the head of Lakes Fork.