| Show THE BROWN STOW found east of apte ant grove THAN it is light durable and easily trimmed future building material about one half of alie houses of pleasant grove are of a peculiar soft porous lime rock which is obtained from the mountains past of the city the rock is generally of a grayish color and when first taken out is very soft and can easily be hewn to any shape the longer the rock is exposed to the ar the harder it becomes As a guilding Duil ding rock it is unexcelled being warm iu winter and cool in bummer its porous nature of course prevents its being used for the foundation but in the wall of the building its durability is unquestioned the longer the house built f this material stands the more solid and substantial it becomes frost does not affect the rock in alie slightest this rock is constantly being formed by the action of the water a crust about 1 16 of an inch thick being formed ea ii year A stick placed in the water at the end of the year will have a 1 16 inch stone coating covering it james H bismore EI smore the pleasant grove contractors and builders have recently located a haimof this rock in grove creek canyon a short distance east of the city the claim is feet by 1503 and the strata of rock is from four to ten feet in thickness mr bismore asserts that pieces of this rock as large as a aegon bed can be taken out it differs from the rock heretofore used in not being so porous and is also of adif lerent color the grayish color of the old stone is super ceded by a clean light brov n color tha improvement in appearance of a house constructed of brown stone over one constructed of the gray stone is verv marked brown stone houses need no lonser bo considered as exclusively the domi ciles of the wealthy air bismore agrees to place square hewn stone blacksin block sin the wallin on alie outside at a cost 20 per cent less than that of brick the interior of the wall is left rough so that the a will adhere this class of houses will no doubt become very popular in the near future |
