Show state house at fillmore I 1 I 1 great salt lako lae city dec 25 1854 editor of the deseret news I 1 at your request at I 1 I 1 t to give A brief account of our expedition to Wi rill lindom moe city citi to fini sh er ereo eeling the edlis ot of tho ali south wing of the state house wifely wh cli we eie re commenced in ili the year 52 tile the company consisted of seven masons five cutters and ten tell mason tenders with four ha hose hase se teams for convoy conveyance anee we started ou on flip alet slet of september bame of tile company staid that night flight at lake gila city the rest t lehi city on oil the we pass passed the wat war parties s of tile the snakes aud and ut indians lid ais tile the particulars of which were published publish eO at that time that night we e staid at oil oh the we continued our jou journey jourvey roey keeping keding watch for the I 1 indians 1 as there was same excitement at 1 that tini time e and on the abou noon wea we arrived at fillmore the citizens were somewhat surprised at our coming seeing it was so late in the fall beli sieving iving it impossible for us to 0 put up the walls waits of the stale SInt house eliouse th alis s season tile the prospect looked dull for vis us to be furnished with the necessary matei mater ills his for the ilie erection election of the buil building buildings dingas as the citizens were principally prin iTally engaged in i n securing their crops threshing their wheatland wheat and putting tig atlin it sin gra iries narice 1 however t there here were about two hundred red of rock on oil hand and by borrowing some tune litile we were enabled d to muke make li a combelic ment next day after OUT our arrival br ars S P phout used ilia exertion to have thene the necessary cessa y materia s and also brother felshaw Fels liaw who had charge of b the design aegis of tile ilia building aai and principal foreman done his best to have ule the door and window frit frames mes joice ac ready for the ina mason soll which w kiich was war accomplished I 1 the citi citizens zeni I 1 soon got their crops secured ared and n many of them directed their en energies er es to lumber scaffold po poles aud miming burning linie lime which enabled n u to progress pi ogress with the work this walls wera were gomph completed Aed which was on oil the alli of december I 1 think sonic some credit I 1 ndue is due tl alie ie workmen for I 1 aig dia work in so short a limu lime under the ex existing asting circumstances tn I 1 I 1 will give the dimelsi dimen sims ins of the building bot entering into arver every the basement is 41 ft 4 iu id wide ide by 61 ft 8 in long at the top of tile the basement a course of cut stone billed c fillod coping extends round two sides and one pud end which I 1 projects one inch over the wall wail the indin w 11 will ll ill al then receded 9 aiches from the face of coping there there are pilasters pi lasters oil three sides bides of the building I 1 ich give it a grand appearance the walls wails of the basement are 3 ft thick the wall above 2 ft thick the bueding bu iding is if three stories high the first 10 ft 16 the second xa 2 ft tle i third 14 ft 6 in to where the ille arch ch commences comben ces I 1 as a athe the upper i story I 1 ey is tog to afe J Us ov over er head bead the 6 ase basement e 1 at 1 s arvi li i ed by aig uig lengthwise north and s south I 1 i ti 1 leaving a L hall 7 ft fl wide wid c ech side of tl alie I 1 e liall hall there urea re four rooms itlie ithe I the s ca nd story is th tae e same I 1 as die first Q capt for the present one partition piri parI tion each side of il fie ie hall is left out leaving rooms about 13 by 26 f each however as this ii ig only one olie wing of ai ti main building I 1 alroso partitions will be put u up when mien the he wild whole I 1 0 is completed the third ao stoy y is I 1 allin all in one roon room i abich will make it very cai capacious a lous for tile joint 8 sessions e fissions vr of the e th s whole building is is buu built ot of rock laid in lime mortz mortar if making it the most substantial building in ift the ten atory I 1 they have excellent bul balding ding stone i la i fillmor Fill moro 0 I 1 and ab d us Us sone so e of tile the officers of government govern mento and other oilier men of capital hive lately city lots lols lan re and being tile tiie caprial of the ten Teni atory tory it will ill improve hore more rapidly vapidly than r aud and surpass I 1 many of the older settlements sait le rhenis lf hiving ditl accomplished wh we went to I 1 do we left algo fellmore r 6 on oil the llin of december er and ar air ridd in this city on oil the th the e people th the dif different farent settlements were enjoying enjo ing peace and plenty having had ha I 1 an all abundant ha harvest I 1 I 1 1 yours I 1 I 1 I 1 WOODWARD I 1 I 1 |