Cover, Masthead, and Contents

Improvement Era, vol. 18, no. 11 (September 1915).

Editorial content begins on printed page 947. Advertisements are omitted under the magazine-import policy.

Unpaginated frontispiece: Utah Building, Panama-Pacific Exposition

Among the state buildings at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, at San Francisco, the western states are represented by California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. In the Utah building is a panoramic, working model of the Utah Copper mine at Bingham, showing actual processes of ore removal with miniature steam shovels, engines, and cars in operation. The main floor is mostly occupied by officers’ and reception rooms; paintings and statuary of Utah artists and sculptors decorate the rooms. There is also a modest but interesting display of relics of prehistoric cliff-dwellers of southern Utah, loaned by the University of Utah.

A prominently displayed sentiment, quoted from Brigham Young to the Board of Regents of the University of Utah in 1850, attracts attention to the booth: “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” The frontispiece depicts the Panama-Pacific Exposition’s Tower of Jewels by night.