Show TERRITORIAL ASYLUM i A Fihe Institution for the Care of Utah Demented Its Cost Dimensions Arrangement and Other Details A Provo correspondent gives some interesting in-teresting items concerning the new Territorial Ter-ritorial Asylum located near the base of the range of mountains east of that city and which will be ready for occupancy in about a month For the erection of the asylum the Territorial Legislature made an appropriation of 90000 and from this fund about onethird of the building has been completed Other appropriations are expected from the coming Legislatures I Legisla-tures and in the course of a few years the building will be entirely completed when it will certainly rank as one of the finest institutions of its kind in the I west The longitudinal section of the present wing is 140 feet long by CO wide and a transverse section on the south is 99 feet long by 34 wide The estimated i cost is 250000 It is an exact pattern of the famous Asylum of Michigan and will have every modern improvement The building will be lighted by electric light The water for culinary purposes is furnished furn-ished by a spring which is 500 feet from the building and a large reservoir 180 feet away Pipes are laid horn the spring and reservoir and the water is carried to I all parts of the building the flow is sufficient suf-ficient to water the grounds immediately surrounding the asylum and all that would be necessary in case of fire The building however is considered fireproof fire-proof There are 148 rooms in the wing that is now built and the floors are of the celebrated Georgia pine The apparatus ap-paratus is a wonderful piece of scientific work Dr Benedict and three professional profes-sional plumbers from the East say there is no building west of the Mississippi river that is plumbed more accurately than this A contract has been made with the Provo Woolen Manufacturing I Company to furnish blankets necessary I J H Burton deserves great credit as overseer and architect for from the foundation foun-dation to the last touch of the paintbrush paint-brush the work is creditably done |