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Show COLLEGE SHRINE IN CONCREH Forw BB H BmVBBBBBBBBBBBBBBVsQJjurEXBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaB Bj Bv H KiMBBBBBBBiiBaa(lWIwa,''aBBBBBBBBBB BB B BBWT?bbbbbbbI bSbTbbbVbbIIJB ' K Hty. . BB BCTBtfBPwflHRSI By HAROLD GOFF. , ., , A unique piece of work In concrete Is the official of-ficial monogram of tho Univorsity of Utah a gigantic gi-gantic letter "U" on the mountainside northeast of Salt Ijike City, nlwve the campus of the state institution. The letter is said to be tho largest monogram in tho world. On clear days is can bo aeon from the furthest point of Snlt I Jike Valley, a distance of twenty miles. By tourists ontcrlng Snlt Lake City from tho south It is ono of tho first points, of Interest observed. As originally constructed in the spring of 1905, the "U" wns made of lime obtained from nn abandoned aban-doned kiln in the vicinity. Energetic sophomores sopho-mores of tho university having placed their clnss numerals, forty feet high, on the mountainside, their collogfate enomios the freshmen folt obligated obli-gated to erase the numerals and replaco thorn with the freshmnn symbol. Then followod one of the most vigorous clnss fights that have mnrked tho history of tho Utah school. Day nnd night for nearly a weok the contest wont on intermittently, in-termittently, nnd each morning rosidents or Salt Lake City would go out upon thoir porches to soo which clnss had succooded In loaving Its autograph auto-graph on the mountain. ,lMn,ly. an nrmlstlce wns nrranred. d'lHmr which a longhcntled student suggested thnt the combatants combine with the upper clnssmen nnd construct n mighty "U" as an emblem of loyalty to the whole school. Accordingly on nn appropriate appro-priate morning the male contingent of the stu-dent stu-dent body assembled and formed n bucket lino from the old lime kiln to the site of the proposed letter, n thousand feet distant, where some of the cng neering students had marked nn outline. out-line. The "U" that emorged from tho hillsldo was not a perfect one, but it wns tho-n. dazzling white against the purple gray of the hills By the timo the spring of 190G came the "V" was a sorry looking affair. Tho snows and mint had washed most of tho llmo nwnv so that it needed refilling A petition fo? a half hoi lay $ .f construction was bogun. A Inrcor "official b ock ' "U" was laid out ho original ettor haying been of tho script var ioty. Two hundred buckets were kept in motion for nJ six hours nlong tho thousnnd-foot lino moro than five thousand bucketfuls of lime being pr ylOCKSlOn over tho letter. ImcT In tho Bpring of 1907 the students njjaini the necessity of strnightoning up their "U." HmfM- was apparent, however, thnt this would hsu e an annual occurrence if lime continued to . tho matorinl used. Arrangements were mi mW therefore, to roplaco the llmo with concrete, 't old monogram was destroyed, excavations IIL,,,, made, nnd forms put In for a concrete "U"f (11111111 inches deep. HI Will Tho letter ns It wns constructed then and it now atands, measures n hundred feet acr n , tho top bars and the same distance in Mi Kfi1 r The bars are twenty by firty-fivo feet, wit1 UVUI K 'pare of ten feet between them. Thcsideii ne,ut.n fifteen feet wide nnd tho bottom twenty ft , iHSUltl making n totaT area of forty-seven hundred fiftv sounro foot. Thirty-seven lonils of v flnn I , forty of gravel, nnd twelve of water, toget) u,lu W with two hundred sneks of cement, were used the construction. There arc 1583 cuWcfett pp.f(coiii; concrete, weighing about n hundred nnd te , rlUll tons. s tho letter lies on a slope of -10 perc , ijw ci i, "nulo the task of building it was no small m lOCK nnd the university students nro proud of thef; cABinini , that they did it nil themselves. Tho estinu! m i cost of tho lettor Including labor nnd miler .... . would be nbout fivo thousand dollars. "5M 1U An engineering student with a manU I , U- nni mathematics has figured that to consume t ( "J HUl I water used In tho construction of the "U," f r. Qrtf dfinking one quart per day, would required ",s W years, three days, eleven and threH 'feafhfrnn "Mira, nnd that nn nnt taking two days pert . a iron nd carrying one-two hundredth of nn ounce I , '-'i In .order to transport tho material used , hn big letter would have to labor 4.21 0,864 1 j ( fu Tho monotrram hns become a shrine to t ' Mlldit dfinta nnd nlumni of tho University of w ' Oncp oach spring it is given n new coat of j A r",!, n "'u' Dv." which hns becomoakf - '"'liWiv In tho school cnlondor. While thee KHHtt, - repolishing tho big letter, tho girls nana '" ,ho campus nnd propnro a bitr feed. A f r---, rormi the program of tho afternoon, aid.1 J '-v'i jnllificntion closes with a vaudeville si I ! n the evening. |