--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Eldredge, Alma collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 24 number: 11 published: 1921-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Alma Eldredge, "Correct Placing of the Monument, Pioneer View," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 11 (September 1921): 976–976.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera24011unse 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: improvementera24011unse start_page: 976 end_page: 976 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera24011unse publication_year: 1921 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 1921, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Correct Placing of the Monument, Pioneer View By Elder Alma EldredgeIf it would be admissible, President Ivins, I would like to give my evidence to substantiate, further, the remarks of Brother Riter. President Ivins: Proceed, Brother Eldredge. Brother Eldredge, continuing: Ephraim Knowlton Hanks went around with the Battalion. He arrived in Salt Lake, re- turning from California, before the Pioneer company started to return to Winter Quarters. When he reached the first com- pany of families, coming West, which was Daniel Spencer's fifty— (he was an own cousin to my father, and a young man) he stopped with the train and came back with the company. The night the train camped at the foot of the Big Mountain, he told the men how they could look over the valley here, when they should emerge from this canyon. Three of them were terribly anxious to have a "look;" and the first thing in the morning they got on their horses. There was one horse for Ephraim Hanks; he took me on the pony behind him; and they came down through here (indicating), about ten o'clock in the morn- ing. He turned a kind of a horseshoe and came around up this swale, and when he got here he said: "Cousin, here is where President Young stopped and looked over the valley, and said, "This is the place." (Applause) President Ivins: I feel quite certain that these few clouds and this little sprinkle of rain [a little thunder shower passed over during the exercises] would have been very welcome to the Pioneers seventy-four years ago; so we will not worry aboul that.