--- 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: 11 published: 1915-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Cover, Masthead, and Contents," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 11 (September 1915): 947–1038.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18011unse 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: improvementera18011unse start_page: 947 end_page: 1038 curator_note: Cover and masthead retained. Editorial contents are separated at source-native headings. Advertising leaves 2, 99, and 100 are intentionally omitted; unnumbered frontispiece leaves 3–4 are described in source-audit artifacts outside the repository. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18011unse 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. --- # 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.