The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-31

and weight of material used Is made
up from reliable sources:
~or.Nrtry oUNDS
TX I'M so,,are feet of stone..... 1850 100
,.,,un I,r,ckS 2,uUU, 900
snt,N1 faet of Iumb er.mm-m 1880
So tons of liu,uoo
l9,5Ue square fl. metal ioohng- 2,,sSV
81 uoo I,thS 10 700
sUsn snl,re feet plate glass; l4,GOO
Total number OF lS,5s2,2So
THE MEN.
The Board of Capitol Building Com
missioners includes the following
named gentlemen: j. c. Hazlett, OF
DAYTON, PRESIDENT; VIM. H. Corhett,
of Carson, Secretary; John I'll. Mills
of Gold Hill. +. ID. Stadtmullerof En-
pire CITY, j. 4. johnson of Genoa,
Jacob Klein of Carson, and j.. H. Stur-
revant of Washoe. Joseph Costing of
San Francisco was Architect; Peter
Cavanaugh Il Son, Contractors aud
Builders; W. j. Thomson, Foreman
of CARPENTERS; Barney Radican, Fore
man of Plasterers; and j. Davis tSan
Francisco Glazier.
THE BUILDING
Is in the form of a Grecian cross-liS
feet north and south by 9S feet east n
west-and is of the Romanesque order
of architecture {adOpted in the later
Roman Empire. compounded of the
CorintiIian. Ionic aud DorIc. Inc
foundation is nine feet wide. five feet
below the surface, laid with grOutIng
and thoroughly concreted, so that IT l.
physically Impossible for 1t to give the
bundredth part OF an inch unless
nearly half of Capitol Square goes
down with it. The footwall is eight
feet thick. The basement story Is
seven feet in the clear, cut only by
such partition walls As are seer on the
first floor, and contains he hot air fur
naces, S~torerOOnuS, ETC., and Is lighted
by forty windows. The walls of the
first story are three feet thick. and
those of the second story two feet six
inches, exclusive of projectinns-all of
silIcious sandstone of Il durable nature.
There are rustic coigne projections OF
six inches more. externally and inter
uallv. on corners, jams and around
the windows. The walls are nearly
solid (but little rubbie being used,
and are 30 feet high to gables; - feet
TO top of gables: 100 feet to top Of Gu
pola, and l55 feet to top of flag staff.
II EXTERIOR.
The entrance to the west wing is ap-
preached by three runs of stone steps,
| each ten feet wide, the eas entrance
! being precisely similar in this respect.
The north and south wings are APP
preached by a single run, fourteen feet
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portico-the north and south ones
supported by two, and the east and
west ones by four voluted columns,
resting on stone pedestals. The west
| portico enables n TO pass rom the
office OF the Secretary of State, on
the second floor, to the Library and
reading rooms, along the exterior of
the building. Around each Of the
porticos is an ornamental baiustrade.
All the openings are exteriorailv flu-
ished with rustic coignes, Wlndo"
jams and heart stones, i'll courses to
| suit the randon-tooled ASHER stone
work of the front. The cornice around
| the entire roof and base of gables is
formed of heavy loot mould and mo
dillon or Ionic %cornice, projecting W
! feet six inches from the main wall,
and finished to the cav of the root
with crown mould, which inc!udesthe
foundation OF the gutter. The roc is
Of metal, with raised joints, laid in
courses, the whole having three heavy
coats of Princess red fire proof paint.
The cupola rises As feet above the roof.
octagon in form, 80 feet in diameter,
and is supported by l6 ornamental pi-
lasters and b~uttresses: is lighted by
eight twin windows with crown lights,
the windows centering upon columns
with C%orin.hian caps. The cupoia has
| a curved foot of metal. and is formed
in sections to suit the octagon base OF
the structure. Above the dome a flag
staff rises 30 feet, mounted by Il large
gilded globe, having all elevation OF
I55 feet above the surface of the
ground. The flag staff is inserted
in acylinder so constructed tina the
| pole may be lowered in five minutes.
| Besides the elliptic dome constructed
over the main hall on the second floor
to transmit light from the cupola, the
building has fifty large and forty small
| windows. The latter are all in the
basement. The first story has 25 twin
windows, q by IL feet q inches, with
arched heads, center circular crown
lights of e. ounce French crystal sheet
glass, double arched sashes and vo.
futed columns. The second story has
Is windows, 8 by Is feet, Of same mate