Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-08-09 | Page 13 | People and Things

PEOPLE AND AND THINGS By BJ FRED BAGBY i Twelve Feet High I The old council resolution provided wall should be 12 the mud the thick at Sect feet in height six feet both sides to s 8 base and tapering on one hall feet at a width width of two and height of oC six feet Ceet then to extend up the remaining six feet fret with a width I of two and one half feet 1 It was provided that it should be bc bet t t of the earth taken from the ditch along aIon the wall this earth to be wet And nd mixed with brush willows or other handy material to reinforce it and hold it together It was suggested that the reinforced mud be placed on in layers Ii Provision was made for one gate the north wall vall on the street just w t of the bathhouse which was probably Second West the street leading into the highway to Ogden it It was as provided also that a gate gatei i hould be m made dc for the railroad though at that time there was no railroad in the city However the builders were probably looking ahead t and nd nd making makins provision for the Utah v Central later constructed ff City Creek Gate f Another gate in the north wall Vall was as located where the wall crossed City creek But one gate 4 was specified for the east wall this t to be located at the road that would best serve traffic I 1 have been able to find no record of where this opening g was located l' l lOn On the south it was specified i that as many gates should be beJ l J provided as traffic might det de- de 1 t 1 mand and th there re is no rio record disK dis dis- I K f covered as as to the loc location tion of I j these No specification was vas made for a gate or opening on ont 1 t the wesL west J 4 r Checking with the city engineer I and nd moo modern ern maps of oC the city and Using the locations and measurements measure measureS ments given i in 1 the old council reso- reso lution i indicates that the course of wall wan started at the south line of Ninth South at the point where Lin Lin- coin street comes into this thoroughfare thorough thorough- h. h fare and proceeded north between hat is now Ninth and Tenth East lt ltd th the north side of f Fourth avenue I old description n says sas that this Bide lide included two blocks and two streets north of the pre present ent survey which apparently meant above Second Sec ond avenue Fourth avenue was known as Wall street in early days and is said to have taken its name I from the presence presence there of ot the old mud nud wall 13 The wall ran along the north side of cf Fourth avenue across the cany canyon n and ind to the east line of of f State street then hen First East From this point it swung northwesterly across the hill hillIn hillin hillin in front of the present state capitol grounds and along what is now known as as Wall street out to Seventh North I am told that t the e present Wall street et obtained its Us name from the old wall and that the last remainIng remain remain- Ing lag portions of the barrier were torn out when this highway was paved ome me years ears ago 1 West est to River From the old bathhouse or Warm Springs the wall ran out Seventh North to the river Then the course is supposed to have followed along the east bank o of the Jordan to Ninth South Sauth where it turned east and ran to the point of oC beginning As I have said I can find no record o of the Jordan river section section sec see tion ever ever being built and most timers old with whom I 1 have talked express the doubt that it ever was However it might have been built in iii part or entirely entirely en- en and have been destroyed by rain snows and weather many V years ago The material along V most sections of the wall was such undoubtedly undoubted that it would rapidly disintegrate under weather er ravages except along those thOc V sections where the construction V was more of clay and rock or gravel The north section of the r wall appears to have been of more substantial more construction for IV many persons living iving today can I. I remember sections of or this this' and recall recall recall re re- re- re call playing on the old wall when they hey were boys