| Show the temple block one day last week according to our expressed intentions we took a walk inside the wall that surrounds the temple block to see what was passing there and arid what BO so many men were employed at that had been seen go going ingald and coming in the direction of the cast gate the only ane kept open f for ar the ingress and egress of the workmen and for tle tio tie ifie teams teanis hauling stone atone lime sand coal lumber and other materials necessary for carrying on the various kinds of work and mechanism the men are engaged in in on and about the foundation of onne thie temple in the public shops arid and other places on the block As was expected from the noise heard for many weeks the first thing seen on passing through the gate was a large company ot of sto stone e cutters busily engaged in in hewing the huge rocks that had been hauled thera there from the quarry four fatir or gge age give fie miles distant arid and fitting t them for the place they are to occupy in in the basement of the temple tempie we saw there cheera cheerfully ull uil at work men whose hairs were white with age c 1 middle aged and young b men with many boys just commencing to use the chi chisel sel sei arid and the nois nals n ethey hey made was nearly deafening as we are unaccustomed to noise of that kind we lie vie did not count the he men but th estone cutters with the laborers engaged 0 in in placing L the stones r eady keady for the masons when they get to work would make a small army and so soon as the cottonwood cottons canal is i completed and the facilities for delivering 0 rock faster are increased the number of stone squar ers and laborers labor laboi erb ers will be augmented in in a corresponding degree after spending a short time looking on the busy scenes without we passed through ugh the public shops taking a cursory view of what was going goin on 01 there and found them alive with workmen the stone shop where stones are hewn in better style and greater variety than those thou for he basement of the temple the blacksmiths shop the carpenters shop the paint shop the gunsmiths gun smiths shop the archine mr chine and other bho sho shops ps all presented scenes of industry tr ingenuity and skill worth look looking in 0 at among other things the fire enide en engine ine ide which the city council are getting made at attracted our attention as it has been thought by some that a good one could not be made here the thia workmen are progressing with it slowly but when done if it is is no noc not as good as any that could be imported we shall lie be mistaken at all event events it will be of valley manufacture manu factura and another can bs be made if it falls to wor work 1 well that will do better in accordance accor dance darce with the spirit of the ae a age e having L but little time to spend in in feasting L our mind mild in examining examining the various anous kinds of work done and in in the progress of completion in in the lanoue 6 departments through tigh which we passed and seeing an imitation of our patent notice to loafers posted up at every ev ery ad anle anie angle adle le we did not stay lon ion long iong g in any one place and ri returned tur ned with aa as little delay defay as our own curiosity would gould admit to attend to our own business much pleased with the excursion and rutn what we had seen |
