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Show WINTER 2013 UHQ pp 4-90_UHQ Stories/pp.4-68 12/5/12 9:38 AM Page 57 AuTHOR SANPETE OOLITE LIMESTONE Scandinavian stone workers also built The Sanpete County Courthouse Spring City's city hall in 1893 of local oolite in Manti was constructed of limestone, and the Crisp-Allred house of oolite limestone between 1920 oolite limestone in the early 1880s. Danish and 1926. immigrant Niels Peter “Baker” Jensen built a rock barn. The Orson Hyde home was built sometime after 1863. (Hyde was an important LDS church leader.) Jens Sorensen built the Isaac Edgar Allred home of cut stone in 1875. The older section of the Judge Jacob Johnson home was built between 1870 and 1872 of cut stone with a large addition completed in 1892. The Simon T. Beck residence was built in 1883 and the Crawforth Homestead in 1884.17 Oolite limestone quarries are exposed almost the full north-south length of Sanpete Valley. Edward L. Parry and sons operated the largest quarries near Ephraim and Manti. The Ephraim quarry is the largest of the quarries with a working face fifty to seventy-five feet high and twenty-four hundred feet long. The upper part is waste rock of calcareous shale and thin-bedded limestone. The lower part is composed of massive limestone beds four to six feet thick separated by thin shale partings. The Manti quarry most recently worked lies on both sides of a north-flowing gully and forms a discontinuous chain with a composite length of 2,380 feet. The latest oolitic bed to be quarried is eight feet thick overlain by twenty-two feet of waste rock. An older quarry east of the temple that has not been worked for many years has a working face ten to fifteen feet high and 1,650 feet long with 17 For more information on Spring City buildings see Cindy Rice, “Spring City: A Look at a Nineteenth Century Mormon Village,” Utah Historical Quarterly 43 (Summer 1975): 260-77; Kaye C. Watson, Life under the Horseshoe: A History of Spring City (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1987), 23-120; and Peter L. Goss and Kaye Watson, A Guide to Architecture and History of Spring City rev. ed, (Spring City: Friends of Spring City, 2007), 1-52. 57 |
