Show lANDMARKS 60 NG Old Wells Home in the Tithing Yard Razed I OTHER CHANGES BEING MADE I The Adobes in tho Old Wells Residence Resi-dence Are Much Larger than Those Subsequently Used Cobblestone Walls Now Being Torn Down Are I Found to Havo Been Strengthened I by Age nnd Dynamite Would Havo een Used But ior Fear of Injury to Adjoining Buildings 1 f A large gang of workmen keeps on I demolishing the old landmarks In what Is known as the Tithing Ofllcc square preparatory to the opening of the street which Is to run through from South Temple to North Temple street The old residence In which Gov Wells and other notables were born has been razed And In doing so it has been discovered that the adobes made In the early days of the Territory Terri-tory were much larger than those subsequently sub-sequently put into buildings Some of those taken out of the building now being demolished are eighteen Inches long six inches wide and four inches deep Superintendent McHenry who has charge of the tearing down of the old cobblestone walls says that the task Is by no means a light one The walls were most of them erected In 1853 and Instead of time disintegrating them the elements appear to have made 1 them so much stronger So hard was I I one of the columns that there were serious thoughts at one time of using dynamite to accomplish Its destruction destruc-tion but the danger of flying rocks was taken into consideration and the use of the pick continued CHURCH WANTS JENNINGS LOT CHURCH There Is a real estate deal now on between Thomas W Jennings and the church which Is of more than ordinary interests For several years Mr Jennings I Jen-nings has owned a valuable piece of ground immediately west and south of the Tithing Ofllcc and facing on i South Temple street At one time he i contemplated building on the property but abandoned the idea The land has remained Idle since that time but has now become desirable property for the church In view of the cutting through I ot the street So the property will I probably soon be owned by the church either by exchange with Mr Jennings for real estate that will give him n frontage on South Temple and the new I street or by purchase outright |