The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03

team at that. Every Salt Laker at the age
of thirty-fve and downwa recalls, as a
boy. the curious spectacle of six and eight
toillng oxen drawing cart, underneath
winch was suspended by chains monster
rock from the mountains. 1t frequently
TOOK four days to bring a single rock
from the quarry to the Temple block, and
the road was strewn with the wreckage of
wagons and cars unable to bear the strain
put on them. The invasion by Johnson's
army in 1857, the devastation and hard
tunes caused by crickets and grasshoppers,
and later. the call for laborers by the 40
vent OF the Union Pacific railroad all caused
Interruptions of the work; for several
years the walls stood covered only few
leet ABOVE the ground; the completion of
the railroad to the quarries. however. re-
moved the great difficulties under which
the work had struggled and practically
the building has been erected in the last
fifteen years.
Every convenience will be used in COM
pletlng the building. Electricity will be
USED throughout, though gas pipes will
also De laid. The temple will have its own
plant, and it is estimated that it will fur
nish 1000 light to the building and | 600
more TO the tabernacle. There will be
TOUR lO0-horse power engines near the an :
mex on the north. The smoke stack is
completed. The present idea is to have
eiectric wires running up the spires of all
the towers, and to have 100 candle light
hXed TO the crown of the angel, SO that if
ever an illumination of the building were
wanted, spectacle of great magniticence
cou!d De seen. 1t would be something of q
problem how to replenish the candle in the
crown OF the angel when one bnrnt out,
according TO Mr.. Young, but as some of
these candles will burn 5000 hours. and as
they would not be used very frequently,
the problem would not arise very often.
In heating the building the hot water sys-
tenn will be adopted. The main pipe, twelve
inches, will connect with the boilers. $50
leet distant, The main is not buried in the
earth, but laid in stone-lined tunnel. so
mat 1t can be gotten at at any time. MIR.
Young says they will have the Mills sys-
TEN applied to hot understanding en-
urely new. The pipe will run UP through
Inc northwest corner tower through the
roof, and empty into huge ex pansion tank.
from which smaller heating pipes radiate
to all parts OF the building The tempera-
lure thus secured will be even, pleasant and
healthful. Ventilation will be secured by
pressing electric buttons, Which will throw
open transoms in the various rooms and
start sixteen fans, each of one-half horse
power The boilers are supplied with Muir
phys patent smokeless furnaces, se.f-stok-
ers.
1ue quilting Will nave Two passenger ele-
Vators, both In the west central tower. The
elevators will run up level with the roof
only. A hand rail will be built on the roof
so that people can step out from the eleya-
tor without danger. There are also spiral
stairs leading to the top in all the towers
All the steps are granite, cut by hand, and
there are $50 of them in the main tower
THESE steps cost about 500 each, so Mr.
Young says.
The interior is divided into four floors
counting the basement Each floor. except
the top, is divided into rooms of VARYING
sizes. The top floor is completely occupied
by an assembly room, so feet wide bv 100
long, capable of seating about one thousand
persons. The ceiling is So feet in height
Everything is to be done in hard finish
pure white will be the rule throughout
The large room referred to is just from the
hands of the plasterers, and the work al
ready done shows that the whole will be of
striking beauty. In the basement there
Will be marble floors, or floors of Mosaic
thing. Elsewhere they will be of wood.
The main centre wall is of brick. IS inches
thick, and rests on stone piers. A superb
stone arch, which spans AZ feet. supports
the whole wall An excavation for 3 han
tismal font is seen on the lower floor. The
font will De OF bronze, supported on the
backs of twelve life-sized oxen. the DESIGNS
OF winch are now executed.
Following are some Of the principal d.
mansions Of the temple: