The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-22
CAPITOL GROWING IN BEAUTY

With 100 men busily at work In
the different departments, the CAPT
tol of Idaho is rapidly assuming the
appearance of a real building. The
power house will be completed within
10 days, ready for its equipment. The
big tunnel, which connects the power
house and the capitol a block away,
is practically finished and the orna-
mental plastering is going on in some
of the rooms of the main building.
The first floor will be completed Jul
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lone wi be cUrli leted and the en-
tire building completed November l.
The marble for the wainscoating
and the door and window frames has
arrived, coming from Token Bay.
Alaska. 1t is white, clouded softly
with gray. Thick slabs of the mar
BILE will outline all the openings in
Guiding doorways and windows or the
first floor, with just enough o. ma
hogany to hold the frames. The
floor of the rotunda will be of large
slabs of marble, arranged brick lash
ION. The marble alone in the bald
ing will cost $4,000, and the or1a-
mental plastering $4,000.
Work is being pushed just nov ON
the supreme court room, a chamber
of impressive proportions with a sky
lighted dome and beautiful bench. A
private self working elevator has
been added to the original plans to
run from the supreme court to the
temporary quarters of the law libra
ry on the grade floor.
The tunnel is an interesting piece
of work. 1t is seven feet high and
four feet wide, made of reinforced
concrete a foot thick and arranged to
carry the conduits for the electric
light wires, the water pipes, steam
pipes and other pipes which may be
needed. A truck in this tunnel will
carry all the refuse from the capitol
to an incinerator in the powerhouse.
The power house occupies a space
of 46 feet by sc, and the rest of the
lot, which is 1872 feet deep, has been
excavated for coal bunkers, arranged
to hold ten cars of coal at a time.
Two Babcock boilers will furnish the
heat for the capitol, and two more
will be installed for the wings when
built. Two generators, n with di-
rect and one with an alternating cur
rent for the lighting and heating sys-
tenn are being installed and will fur
nish sufficient power for all lightning
and power purposes. 1t is estimated
that there will be $500 lights in the
building.
There will be no trouble with a
chimney that won't draw for Idaho's
capitol. The big stack will be 115
feet high. 1t is finished with the eX-
ception of 25 feet, and this will be
delayed waiting for more of the spe-
cial brick. This brick is salt glazed,
made hollow, and is absolutely i'm
pervious to moisture.
Besides the private elevator in the
judges apartments, there will be ten
elevators in the building, ordered
from the Otis Elevator company.
These elevators will cost $4,000 and
the bronze doors will add another
$500 to the cost.
The stairways to the rotunda will
be of marble, each one of the six
flights to cost about $4,000. The
turned marble balustrades will cost
So each and there are hundreds of
them to be supplied.
The carving of the pedestals is
now in progress and when that is fin
ished work on the four main capitals
and the two plaster capitals to the
big columns will be commenced.
The bad weather has interferred
greatly with the contractors work
but they expect to finish the build