Show ia r I b t c t ti tr I i n tl t I r i e ei i I II I I I r I II III 1 I oo irv H 1 I t 1 i I I V VI TilE TIIE SALT LAKE TEMPLE The Tb Temple Is II the most mOlt striking building In Salt Lake City and nn 1 the total cost coet ot of the building and le 1111 It is Ie built entirely ct cf granite ud and the corner stone was laid on April 1640 while It wu finished and dedicated on April IUS 1897 representing tort forty years ot of labor an re the dimensions Length including towers towell lliO feet width 99 feet teet height ot of rook work on east elt tower feet teet height ot of rock work on central west Welt tower feet height ot of walls ot of main building feet thickness ot of wails from tooting footing to first floor 9 feet teet thickness ot of walls from lint door to top ot of build building C 6 feet teet thickness ot of buttresses 7 1 feet The building rate ruta upon a tooting wail 16 feet teet thick and IS 1 feet teet deep and an area of feet teet The figure ot of the Angel Moroni on the center east It tower is II the work ork ot of Sculptor C IC H and is II U 12 feet teet 14 Inches high It Is made ot of hammered copper heavily glided with gold leaf leat All ot of the ex titter and most mOlt ot of the Interior walls all are of Df solid hewn hen to the equate with the outside ass worked up to a smooth finish The parts part representing the sun lun moon and stars the finals the stories for the towers the solid granite steps tepa each I 9 feet teet In width extending from the top to the bottom of the building at the four our corner towers tower were all hewn at great Ireat expense some ome ot of the Iton stones coating more than each to out Owing to tb the peculiar condition under which the work was commenced It Is difficult to arrive at tb the exact cost cOlt ot of the building In the earlier days day when It required tour four yoke ot of oxen and tour four da days time Ume to bring brine a single stone from the quarry to the Tem Temple k a distance ot of SO 20 miles the pro progress gress r wu was slow and the expense high to In 1171 when hen the railroad was wal built the work proceeded with much more rapidity and at a smaller mailer cot cost The fh estimates upon which the total cost COlt given above la II based baaed are an as follows From 1310 to 1188 the average cot cost was U a year or a total of for tor forthe the years 1919 1118 and 1900 the cost COlt was the fast laet three yeats ot of the work from 1801 oost O Y YV U |