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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 81 abundance of native timbers and all other elements of home and factory building are everywhere present The average annual rainfall does not exceed six inches and ihe atmosphere is dry and invigorating. Xo pulmonary diseases can exist, miasmatic complaints are unknown and health in all its perfect fullness may be seen in the ruddy cheeks and strong constitutions of the people. The Springs on the south possess extraordinary medicinal qualities, and if properly cared for and judiciously managed would soon become famous the world over as the greatest sanitarium of the West. With these and many other natural advantages the Temple City, now a Warm beautiful place of about. 3000 inhabitants, may aspire to the second city of magnitude and importance within the State. April 20, 1877, ground cent temple now adorning was broken for the magnifi- under whose protection the pioneers spent their first and most severe winter. Four days later the site was dedicated by President Brigham Young and work began on that consecrated structure. April 14, 1879, the corner-stones were laid in the presence of an immense throng of Saints. John Taylor laid the southeast. Edward Hunter the southwest, F. W. C\>x the northwest and H. S. Eldredge the northeast. The building was completed and dedicated May 21, 1888, and when fully finished with cut-stone steps leading from the road to the west door and trees and grass planted between the terrace walls will have cost, over one and a half millions of dollars. The enormous sum was raised by the free-will donations of residents of the Manti Temple district. The building is the hill construct ed of native Avhite oolite hundred yards of the site, and required the labor of the most skilled artisans obtainable. Several Manti citizens were prominent in the stone, quarried within a few |
