Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-18

west at least, for II was a perfectly
sane and beautiful treatment for the
climatic problems to be met
BRIGHAM YoUNGs VIEW.
Many years earlier this same source
of design affected Utah construction
in a manner little known except to i'm
habitants of the first decade. Because
of the California missions; the taber-
nacle grounds are surrounded by an
adobe wall Brigham Youngs homes
were built chiefly of adobe, and 1t Ia
a cobble and earth wall instead of n
stone wall that runs east from Main
street on South Temple, partly enclos-
ing the tithing office square.
II want to occupy IL few moments"
said President Brigham Young before
the conference of the Church, Oct. g.
1852 Ito talk about our contemplated
temple. 1t has been moved, seconded,
and carried, that we build n temple here
OF the best material America affords 1t
has been proposed that we send to SAN
pete to get the rock. You may bring
stone from Sanpete. which is a beauti-
full specimen of rock, and erect u tenn
pie here with it; then you may take
this sandstone that is found in Red
butte canyon, and build temple of
that; then you step over to Emigration
canyon to get limestone and build an
other of the same dimensions; then
| right alongside of these build another
| one of adObes mixed with pe'bbles--talke.
| that clay and these cohble stones that
| are so abundant here and build another
| temple of that compositions and let
| them stand together-which do you
| think will stand the longest?
| Being a chemist in theory. l should
| say according to my mind when the
| Sanpete rock is washed into the Jor
/ dan. the other buildings will be stand
l tho nd he In, tn condition Tho
I Red sandstone will go next. and the
| other two remain the limestone being
| in pretty good preservation; and when
| that is all decomposed and washed
| away into the Jordan you Will find that
| temple which is built of adobes still re-
| mains, and in better condition than II
| was the first day 1t was built. 1t viii
| petrify into rock, and VIII become solid
stone in 500 years 90 as to be fit to cut
| into mill stones to grind Hour,
1 THE MISSION EXAMPLES.
What do our Mormon Battalion
| boys say about trying to dig into one
of those old Catholic cathedrals that
are NV standing in California? They
say they might as well have undertake
/ en- to dig through the most solid rock
| they ever saw as to dig through those
| adobe wallis DO you think they are
decaying and falling down? No; they
| are growing DetleT an tue TIME, anu
| so IL is with the houses we live in.
According TO my present views If a
| man should undertake to put me up Il
| stone house l should wish him to build
| it of adobes instead. Rock is either
| growing or decomposing all the time,
] and the moment 1t becomes as hard as
| II is ever going to be, that moment 1T
| begins to decompose"
| President Young's sermon preceded
| the experiments with the granite rock
| OF which the temple was nnally built,
but from this beginning of opinion il
| is easy to trace his extensive use Of
| the pebble dash construction which is
| now becoming so popular in slightly
| modified form, and of the adobe con-
structicn, the principles OF which are
worked out in concrete and cement
| propositions today.
MODERN FINISH.
Two of the most typical examples of
the new fashion in building are the
| residences of Benner X. Smith and Il.
| o. Howard on east South Temple
| IL 1ftrs