--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Jenson, Harold H. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 20 number: 3 published: 1917-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Harold H. Jenson, "In the Wasatch Wonderland," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 3 (January 1917): 210.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2003unse 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: improvementera2003unse start_page: 210 end_page: 210 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2003unse publication_year: 1917 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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # In the Wasatch Wonderland 210 IMPROVEMENT ERA every man morally, mentally, and physically, and which saves temporally as well as spiritually. In brief, we have been taught faith, prayer, and a true conception of God; secondly, the object of life; and finally, the gospel which helps us to live our lives. Has Asael Smith's prediction, which was made before the Prophet was even born, been fulfilled? Listen to the answer of Mark Twain, who visited Salt Lake Valley while on his way to the gold fields of California: "Neither hunger, thirst, poverty, grief, hatred, contempt, nor persecution could drive the 'Mormon's from their faith or their allegiance. And even the thirst for gold, which gleaned the flower of the youth and strength of many nations, was not able to entice them. That was the final test. An experiment which could survive that was an experiment with some substance to it somewhere." Miller Ward, Salt Lake City In the Wasatch Wonderland Left: Brighton and Silver Lake; right: Balsam Inn. Harold H. Jenson sends the Era a number of interesting pictures of what he appropriately calls Utah's Switzerland —Brighton. Two of these are given here, and from his interesting description we cull: "Here the tired business man finds rest and a peaceful retreat; the idealist, the dreamer and the artist see their visions of bliss and beauty, and many miners their visions of wealth. One could gaze forever at these wonders. It makes one realize what a small part one person forms in this great world of ours. The mind also reverts to ancient times when another race used these retreats for their hunting and fishing grounds, and one dreams dreams of the long ago."