| Show THE IRE OLD MINT IS TORN DOWN OON Historic Little Building Just East of the News Offices Razed Hazed Was the Hore Iloine of Many of Infant Indus C There ThereA 1 M A l r A S ill 0 S 44 F ti ri riI I I I I Ui ti i S Y l Ie I IrL St rL 7 5 C 5 PRIMITIVE MINT DurIn the tho week jut just ending men mea have been nt at work t tearing down the old adobe building directly east cut of oC the News Nossa Now ter there roo ro mains to indicate that one of DC the historic structures fr of Salt Sait lAke lAkeI I once proudly rore reared Ita its adobe obe tor form up upI upon I on that vestIge est e ot cit tone atone and adobe hrs b been n CrEd carted away and the little In which once rested the tho foundation ha has been Oie up rd and the ho ground levelled of off as al It If In anxiety to forever conceal from human eY eyes 1 the prot t on an which h Irh WIS was coined the first gold piece leo ever Inde made and circulated In inthis this rt of oC th the United States Of course tire the little shuck W was not n a thing ot of bouty beauty and a joy troll from th modern architects way woy or of thinking nor was wal I it of the mae ale or oNer order I us go nowadays but It had Q a good bit bitof ot of hIstory attached to it II and coo many were the ot of sentimental reul reed bet held huld It close In the cORe remembrance of the pIoneer heart henrt Now ow the heavy hand Irand ot of progress has succeeded In doing itt In a a week what the gentler touch ot or time and nature would nt not have hao oe accomplished In 1 a cent tur tury for tor Is its mia or of adobe were thick and tire the pioneer loneer brIck therein were vere of oC special strength Even now nol the they nrc not to be allowe allowed to rot rest be because cause USI It he hats been blon determined to make theta them do service In tire the of at ofa n a stable for tor cattle To what base bale ule uses tire ore the they corel come Tire The gold pieces coined at this tn mint were ot or litre workmanship 1111 and exceeding purity o and were tere designed for circulation In Utah only mp ot of them were turned out ni as early l U two years yearl nf the plo fleer first Into title valley ot of dead sod e Few of those I tv flyers rs ar are In no now the Issue having returned to the meling melting pt lot wih with the ot of some somo held haiti os as ties In the uni and a few tew ono owned by private individuals On the fifteenth ot of Juno 15 the first CP copy of oC the Deseret Now News came out upon time street that building hut but a at that time there thero was never Say Swipes dye de wanter alier buy two Jor For a number ot of year years the old build In sheltered the one first professional that located In Salt Lake Dr JoHn t J and nf afterwards Or Dr Sharp and amI still hater Dr Dunford held forth tn in the ram came Illace In the tho saute While the were tearing down the old Iao during time welk thoy kept un an open iyo 0 for tor nn an trinket or ot of historic aper that might bo be bounder exposed under the tor hoot but nothing WI was found however ver except a piece of ofa a receipt used b by one ot of the dentists I It had printed In one corner a s ot eta a set of artificial teeth ncr sur rundel rounded by ni all the tho den let Instruments A at that dp IY Theres where 1 lot lost toy my fIrst tooth exclaimed ono one man whose attention was attracted b by tire the process And he looked m as I if he to toI I e the old place lac spare spared nt Ing the which iris his mInd con jt up of h his s frt had therein wih with a grIm determIned tooth puller 10 n the fifties Jomel James M f Ration Darlo estah In the ol oh building the frt first jewelry and w shop that Utah e saw Ue lie tsi used to make rings anywhere fern halt half an ounce to nn an ounce and a hal haIr said Mill Mr Joe JOM Bull he made them of the 1011 gold du dust t le lie o ailo also lup supervised rI d time the making of the lies wIth lh which the coing WN w re Mt I of structure mJ Is only the beginning of a rooM ot of clearing t to which thIs part part ot of Si Salt Lake hI t to be i I 4 I l |
