Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-24

For such an undertaking the stones
would have 10 be broken u pieces.
There IRE few VI Thorn which do not
weigh ar least Two tons and some vi the
large blocks which cover the Kings
chamber inside the structure weigh
GO toms As measured In climbing up IL
there arc about 200 courses ana the
| blocks vary IN height from two 60 nVt
/ feet, II IS estimated that the Great
| Pyramid contains. all told, almost nine
| ~ million cubic feet of limestone. This
! g so much that lc It could be split into
| llags four inches thick. 1t would fur
| nish enough to make q pavement two
| feet Wide reaching over sea and land
| clear around the globe.
a QUARRY FOR AGES.
When Cheops completed this great
structure he coated the outside with
| limestone aud granite slabs. The sides
were as smooth as glass: they met in n
| point at the top and the length of each
side was Is feet longer than it Is now.
The pyramid was great deal higher
and as the bright sun played upon it's
polished surface 1t must have formed a
magnificent sight. The outside coating
has been long since torn away.
| Throughout the ages the people of the
| Nile valley have been getting their build
| ing stone from It. Many OF the mosques
| OF Cairo contain pieces of old Chcops
and ii has been the quarry of this part
| of the world for generation after gem
| Grafton these thousands of years
AS il is today when one views II from
| afar, the Great Pyramid still looks like
| a smooth block of stone. 1T is only
| when he comes closer that one sees that
| it ia made of many blocks, and only
when he stands beside II or attempts
| to climb II that he appreciates the enor-
| NOUS size of these blocks The pyra-
| mid is built of yellow limestone ana
| cOnglomerate. Tho stones are piled one
| on the other in regular layers There is
| no cement between them, but they are
| chinked with a rough mortar which has
| withstood the weather for more than
| 1000 years. / dug at some of this NOR
| tar with my knife, but could not loosen
| IL. and went from block to block along
| the great structure on the side, facing
| the western desert, finding the mortar
| everywhere solid.
NOT SO OLD AFTER ALL.
And this great structure was built
over 1000 years ago. 1t seems a long
| time but when you figure out how
| many lives 1t means it Is not so old
after all, Every one of us knows 100
men who have reached 40 years Their
| aggregate lieves, II patched together.
would go back to the beginning OF this
| structure. In other words, If a man
at 40 should have a child and that child
should live to be 40 and then have a
child, and the program of life should
continue, it would take only 100 such
generations to reach to the days when
the breath from the garlic and onions
eaten by those 100000 men polluted
this desert air.
Indeed, the world is not old. and it
Is not hard TO realize that those peo-
pie of the past had the same troubles,
the same worries and the same tastes
as we. I can take you through tembs
not far from Cairo upon whose walls
are painted the life work Of the men
of ancient Egypt. You may sec them
using the same farm tools that the fell
lans use now They plow they reap
and thrash. They drink wine and
gorge themselves with food. In one of
the tombs | saw the picture OF a wo-
man milking a COW while her daughter
held the calf back by the knees to pre-
vent it from sucking. In another paint
ing l saw the method of cooking, and
in another observed those old Egyp-
tians stuffing live geese with food TO
enlarge their livers. They were maxi
ing pate de foie gras, just as the Ger
mans stuff geese for the same purpose
today
! Leaving the Pyramid Of Cheops