"Seeing Salt Lake City" being an illustrated description of a tour through Salt Lake City on the observation cars of the American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Company .. . ally striking,the material used being granite cut from a quarry inLittle Cottonwood Canyon. The Temples length, includ-ing towers, is 186% feet, its width 99 feet, the heightof rock work on central tower, facing east, 210 feet, on central western tower 204 feet. Height of walls 107% feet. Its founda-tion is 16 feet in depth with the same thickness. Its walls to the firstfloor are 9 feet in thickness, the remainder 6 feet in th
"Seeing Salt Lake City" being an illustrated description of a tour through Salt Lake City on the observation cars of the American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Company .. . ally striking,the material used being granite cut from a quarry inLittle Cottonwood Canyon. The Temples length, includ-ing towers, is 186% feet, its width 99 feet, the heightof rock work on central tower, facing east, 210 feet, on central western tower 204 feet. Height of walls 107% feet. Its founda-tion is 16 feet in depth with the same thickness. Its walls to the firstfloor are 9 feet in thickness, the remainder 6 feet in thickness with but-tresses of 7 feet. The Temples entire area is 4850 feet. Surmountingthe central eastern tower is a colossal gilded statue of the angel Moronisounding with his trumpet the Mormon gospel to the world. Upon theface of this tower are set gilded ornaments representing the sun, moonand stars. Each of the corner towers contains a solid granite stairway6 feet wide from its bottom to the top of the walls. There are 800 stepseach of them costing $100. In the earlier days of its construction itrequired four days work from four yoke of oxen to draw one stone.
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