---
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: 19
number: 1
published: 1915-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The M. I. A. Scouts of Vernal, Utah," *Improvement Era* 19, no. 1 (November 1915): 63.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1901unse
  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: improvementera1901unse
start_page: 63
end_page: 63
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1901unse
  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.
---

# The M. I. A. Scouts of Vernal, Utah

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Tht\M. I. A. Scouts of Vernal, Utah Under direction of Stake Deputy Scont Commissioner J. Ver- non Smith, and Scout Masters Lyman Thompson and Zelph Calder, twenty-four registered scouts participated in a week's en- campment in Brush Creek canyon, in August. Teams carried the equipment, but the boys "hiked'' all the way. Every moment of the six days was occupied by scout activities — trailing, signaling, exploring, cliff scaling, swimming, stalking wild animals, athletic contests, etc. The boys responded readily to all regulations of camp discipline — reveille at 6 a. m., and taps at 9 p. m. Ten Tenderfoot scouts passed the required examination admitting them to Second Class standing, during the encampment. The daily good turn was not forgotten, and one of these included the re- pair of a bad wash-out of the county road. By means of staves and ropes, the boys climbed to a cave, fifty feet up the face of a cliff, and had their pictures taken. At sunrise, each day, the flag was raised and saluted. In the evening the boys gathered around the big campfire where stories and songs were enjoyed for an hour, and just before "turning in," they circled around the dying embers with bowed heads and joined in evening prayer. FIRST TROOP SMITHFIELD, UTAH, M. I. A. SCOUTS — SIGNALING