--- 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: 18 number: 10 published: 1915-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Great Salt Lake City," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 10 (August 1915): 883.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse 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: improvementera18010unse start_page: 883 end_page: 883 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse publication_year: 1915 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 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Great Salt Lake City GREAT SALT LAKE CITY An English artist's conception of Salt Lake City, Utah. The sketch was printed in The Mormons, pub- lished in London, in 1852, and was drawn from verbal descriptions of the city, the valley, the Wasatch moun- tains, and the majestic Cottonwood peaks "O ye mountains high, where the clear blue sky Arches over the vales of the free, Where the pure breezes blow, and the clear streamlets flow, How I've longed to your bosom to flee. O Zion! dear Zion! land of the free, Now my own mountain home, unto thee I have come All my fond hopes are centered in thee."— Hymn, 317.