Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-04-30
The Mormon Terplo at Salt
Lake City.

The temple block is forty rods
square and contains ten acres. The
centre Of the temple is one hundred
and iifty-six feet and a half west Of
the east line Of the block. The en-
tire length Of the building IS one
hundred eighty-slx feet and a half.
including towers, and the width 99
feet. On the cast of the front end
there are three towers, and CORES.
ponding TO these are three towers
on the west or rear end. The north
and south walls are eight feet thick,
clear of pedestal. They stand up
On a foot wall sixteen feet wide at
the bottom, which slopes three feet
on each side to the hight Of seven
feet. The footings Of the towers
raise to the same height as those OF
the sides, and consists Of q solid
piece of masonry Of rough ashlers
laid in good mortar. The base
ment of the main building is divi-
ded into many apartments by
heavy walls all resting on board
footing.
The line of the basement and
floor is six inches above the top Of
the footings. Of the towers named
there are four, one at each corner
Of the building, cylindrical in shape,
seventeen feet in diameter inside,
within which stairs ascend five feet
wide, with landing at the various
sections of the building. The whole
house covers an area of 2l,650
square feet. Freeman 0. Angel, Is
the architect. The massive blocks
of stone of which the foundations
of the temple are built are gram
ite, hauled, we believe, adistance of
nearly twenty miles, the teams and
labor being furnished by the saints.
1t was at one time the purpose Of
Brigham Young to turn a neighbor-
ing river over to the quarry and
thence build a canal on which to
transport the stone.
Quite as interesting as the tenn
pie is the Mormon Tabernacle,
which is built for the use of the
immense Mormon congregations
which meet every Sunday to hear
from the Prophet Brig
ham and his associated apostles. 1t
is in many respects the most re-
markable building on the continent
Of America. It stands on the tenn
pie block, west of the temple. We
may state that it is oval in shape,
the interior being, above and below
and all around, shaped like the in
side of an egg. 282 feet long by
1872 wide in the clear. The hight
from the floor to the ceiling is 65
feet; running lengthwise Of this
affair are A pillars, av-
IA feet in hight, 3 feet thick
and 8 feet deep. Resting on these
pillars are arches of lattice work
and rib, and each rib requires "a, 900
feet Of lumber. Each rib has a raise
in the center of 80 feet. The en-
tire Tabernacle consumed one and
half million feet of lumber in the
1t will seat 10000 peo-
Die. The stand from which the
apostles deliver themselves is adj
,anced about 65 feet from the west
md, standing say about in one Of
he foci of the iIliptical structure
This stand is divided into sections
or the Bishops, the President, the
welve Apostles and the First Presi-
lent.
One remarkable structure inside
# this immense building is the
,rand organ, standing upon the
,ase 90 feet wide by 80 deep. The
ront of this organ is octagonal in
orm, rising to the hight Of As feet.
It contains 2,200 pipes, two banks
If keys and 35 stops on the regis
er. It contains $500 feet of lum-
,er, which was brought on wagons
rom Iron county, a distance of 300
niles. The longest piece Of lum-
yer used in the pipes of the organ
5 80 feet in length. The lumber
II which this organ is built has been
hree years in seasoning. 1t re-
Iuires four men to blow the bellows.
The builder of it is Joseph H. Ridg-
S, and every portion of it was
made by Salt Lake women and
iormons. 1t is undoubtedly one
# the largest organs in America,
perhaps, by that in Bos-
n