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35 TABLE 2 NUMBER AND PERCENT OF 19TH-CENTURY HOUSES WITH ADOBE WALLS IN RANDOMLY SELECTED MORMON COMMUNITIES IN 1971 Community Parow an, Utah Kanosh, Utah E l s i n o r e , Utah Mt. P l e a s a n t , Utah C o a l v i l l e , Utah W i l l a r d , Utah Hyrum, Utah P a r i s , Idaho Year Founded 1851 1859 1864 1852 1858 1851 1860 1863 Approx. No. o f Rem aining Houses B u i l t P re -1 9 0 0 60 26 38 82 17 44 65 38 P r e - 1 9 0 0 Houses w i t h Adobe ’W alls Rem aining 1971 No. P e r c e n t 17 13 9 42 0 0 0 0 28 50 24 51 0 0 0 0 a l l w ere o f lum ber o r l o g , w i t h an o c c a s i o n a l one o f s t o n e . Though adobe was u sed i n H eber, Cache, and B ear Lake v a l l e y s and c o m m u n itie s e a s t o f th e Wasatch a n d a l l Mormon a r e a s i n e a s t e r n Id a h o , lo g and lum ber p re d o m in a te d i n t h e s e a r e a s and lum ber i s now th e p rim a ry m a t e r i a l f o r d w e l l i n g houses. Today i n t h e s e n o r t h e r n p a r t s o f th e Mormon r e g i o n , one l o o k s in v a i n f o r b u i l d i n g o f any k in d c o n t a i n i n g t h e ex p o sed adobe w a l l s s o common i n s o u t h e r n U tah. Houses of adobe do re m a in i n t h e n o r t h , b u t t h e w a l l s a r e alw ays c o v e r e d w ith p l a s t e r o r c l a p b o a r d s . The o c c u r r e n c e o f adobe i n Mormondom a p p e a r s , a t f i r s t , t o c o r r e l a t e w i t h some e le m e n ts of c l i m a t e b u t th e o n ly w e a th e r e le m e n t p a r t i c u l a r l y damaging t o adobe i s p r e c i p i t a ­ tio n . year S t a t i s t i c s c o v e r i n g p r e c i p i t a t i o n a v e r a g e s o v e r a 30t o 4 0 - y e a r p e r i o d th ro u g h o u t t h e Mormon a r e a show no c o n s i s t e n t c o r r e l a t i o n betw een a p re d o m in a n t a r e a l use o f Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.