--- 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: 16 number: 9 published: 1913-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "One of the Mountain Lakes in the Cottonwoods," *Improvement Era* 16, no. 9 (July 1913). source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1609unse 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: improvementera1609unse rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1609unse publication_year: 1913 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 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # One of the Mountain Lakes in the Cottonwoods ONE OF THE MOUNTAIN LAKES IN THE COTTONWOODS On the summits of the Uintah Mountains, in which rise the big rivers of northern Utah — the Weber, the Bear, the Provo, and the Duchesne, are a thousand clear-water lakes like the lake shown here in the Wasatch mountains. Many of the lakes abound in fish. The rivers and creeks draining the Uintahs on the south empty into the Pacific, while those on the north feed the waters of our great inland sea.