The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1925-05-22
MORMON TEMPLE
AT MESA BUILT TO
LAST $4,000 YEARS
By o. S. STAPLEY

lin the Mountain States Monitor)
Rapid progress has been made
during the last few months in
bringing to completion the magnif-
icent edifice at Mesa known as the
Mesa Temple of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
This structure, when entirely COM
plete, will cover a greater area
than any building in the southwest.
1t is 129 feet wide by 189 feet long
and sixty feet high, being the equal
of a five-story building from base
ment to roof. 1t is so substantially
built that architects estimate its
life at more than 10000 years Re-
inforced concrete is the material
of which it is erected, being poured
into it's walls at a thickness of four
feet. In addition to this, more than
100000 bricks have been used,
with facing of polu chrome terra
Gotta. The architectural lines OF
the temple follow those of an an
cient temple of the Holy Land. The
erection of temple in this district,
it is claimed, should be OF great
economic value to the community
and adjacent territory. Latter LAY
Saints in great numbers will gath
er at the temple each year, coming
from long distances in avowal OF
their faith and belief in the doc
trines of the religion. Members OF
the church will realize their fondest
dream when this construction is
finally dedicated for service. The
work is slowly simmering down to
interior craftsmanship and decora-
ton. The painting and art work
is now being done in Salt Lake
City by the artist, R. Lee Fairbanks.
The temple complete will cost
100000.
The architect is Don Carlos
Young, a grandson of Brigham
Young The superintendent is Ar
thur Price, also of Salt Lake City.
The building committee members
are ]. w. Leseuer, 0. 5. Stapley,
John Cummars, ]. T. Lesueur. u. Z. /
Salisbury, with Frank V. Anderson
as treasurer of the committee.
The temple proper will be sur
rounded by an annex, which Will
contain the auditorium, cloakrooms,
offices, kitchen, dining room, sew
ing room and laundry. The struc-
ture will become one OF the live
local points of the church II
America. which now has a mem"
bership divided into ninety-slx
stakes, 400 branches and 1,04o
wards, each ward having chapei
and each stake having tabernacle.
True to the ancient characters
tics of the Lords people, the Latter
Day Saints have been from their
earliest history temple building
people, having erected this type OF
religious edifice at Kirkland, ONO;
Nauvoo, ILL.,; st. George. Utah; Lo-
gan. Utah; Manti, Utah; Salt Lake
City, Utah; Hawaiian ISLANDS,
Carlston. Canada, and last, but by
no means least, the temple at Mesa.
The ordinances performed in the
temple are baptizing by the living
for themselves and for their dead
(see / Cor. 18th chapter); marrl-
ages for time and for eternity
sealing of children to their par
ents; marriages and seallngs III
behalf Of the dead; ordinations to
the priesthood; holy Amounting
and endowments for sacred instruc-
tons.
Thus special efforts have been
made by members of the Mormon
faith to make this temple an out
standing monument to the pioneer
shirt which actuated their fore
fathers when they left their homes
in lands where they were ALREADY
established and came to the Salt
River valley to help wrest the land
from the desert and make it one OF
the most productive regions IN the
world