--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Lambourne, Alfred collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 13 number: 8 published: 1910-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Alfred Lambourne, "At the Point of the Oquirrhs," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 8 (June 1910): 747–748.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1308unse 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: improvementera1308unse start_page: 747 end_page: 748 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1308unse publication_year: 1910 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 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # At the Point of the Oquirrhs AT THE POINT OF THE OQUIRRHS. SKETCH BY ALFRED LAMBOURNE. At the "Point of the Mountain," as we call the place where the Oquirrh Range stoops and ends at the shore of the Inland Sea, is the subject of the above sketch. The old rock house was a mail station in the years gone by. It has seen changes in the land since the days of the western Jehu. On the hillside, about a mile westward of Garfield Beach, is the well-known "Cave." It was once a place of sepulture, used as a burial place by the aborigines. The herd boys knew its secrets. On the right side of the sketch is shown a deep opening in the limestone cliffs, a corral fence across it. This is reported to be quite a deep cave, but whose entrance, a few feet back, has been walled up for quite a number of years. What its secrets may be none at present seem to know. The sketch was taken looking southward. To the north stretches out the Inland Sea. Photo by Shipler. BRIGHAM YOUNG AND PIONEER MONUMENT, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. C. E. Dallin, sculptor, unveiled July 20, 1897, cost about $36,000. "Brigham found himself, in possession of qualities which we find present primarily in all great men — intellectual force, mental superiority, united with personal magnetism, and physique enough to give weight to will and opinion; for Brigham Young was assuredly a great man, if by greatness we mean one who is superior to others in strength and skill — moral, intellectual or physical.'' — Bancroft's History of Utah, p. 201.