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Show THE NEVADA STATE CAPITOL. The Carson Register contains a very lengthy description of this edifice, just completed and accepted. The material ma-terial employed in the building weighs 18,o'J2,ii00 pounds. The building is in the form of a Grecian cross 15S feet north and south by 96 feet east and west and is of the Romanesque order of architecture (adopted in the latter Roman Empire), compounded of the Corinthian, Ionic and Doric. The foundation is nine feet wide, five feet below the surface, laid with grouting and thoroughly concreted, so that it is physically impossible im-possible for it lo give tho hundredth part of an inch unless nearly half of Capitol Square goes with it. The fool wall is eight feet thick. The basement base-ment story is seven foet in the clear, cut only by such pirtition walls as arc seen on the first tloor, and contains the I hot air furnaces, store-rooms, etc., and is lighted by forty windows. The walls of the first story are three feet thick, and those of the second story two feet six inches, exclusive of projections pro-jections all of silicious sandstone of a durable nature. Thsre are nisticcoiene projections of six inches more, externally extern-ally and internally, on cornr-r?, jams and around tlie windows. The wails arc nearly solid (but little cobble being used), and are 50 feet high to gables; 72 feet to top of gables; I'M feet to top of cupola, and lao feet to top of nag statf. |