Show MORMON TEMPLEBUILDING M H Lipman Tells Denver People How It Was Done Denver Republican It required 40 years to build the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City said M H Lipman of Milwaukee at the Brown Palace and scores of men began working on that building when young men and died without having worked at anything else I lived in Salt Lake for 25 years The temple was commenced in 1854 and dedicated in 1894 The stone used in its construction was taken from a quarry some miles distant from the city and before railroads were built in that state these stones were hauled to Salt Lake city by oxen Each stone was cut at the quarry and marked so that when landed in the city it was ready to be put into place The hauling of the stone by oxen was slow work and Brigham Young built a canal from the quarry almost to the city in hopes of being able to save time by floating the rocks on barges but the canal was not a success suc-cess and so oxen were used until a road was built through the state It ran within a few miles of the quarry and Young built a branch to connect with it After that the work on the building was much more rapid |