2011年7月4日 · The names of the faithful quarrymen who continued the work until the temple was finished in 1893 are enclosed in the monument. Rough stones were hauled to the temple block suspended under great two wheeled carts drawn by ox-teams, until the railroad was built in 1872.

2025年1月5日 · When the Utah Southern reached Sandy in September of 1871 and the Sandy station was finished, the granite blocks quarried in Little Cottonwood Canyon for the Temple, previously carried by ox-drawn wagons, were now transported by rail to the depot in Salt Lake City from which a spur had been built to the temple grounds.

By 1860 teams were hauling large granite stones from little Cottonwood canyon to the temple block. The granite blocks were so large and heavy a team of four oxen took three to four days to travel from the canyon to the city center with one large boulder.

The Temple is built of gray granite taken from a mountain of that enduring material at the mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon, twenty miles southeast of the city. Many blocks of granite in the walls are so large that four yoke of oxen were required to …

2019年4月15日 · Granite rock used in its construction was hauled 23 miles by ox-drawn wagons from Little Cottonwood Canyon. The walls are nine feet thick at the ground level and narrow to six feet thick at the top.

2011年7月4日 · Immigrants from Europe taught quarrymen to split off rocks into various sizes. Then teamsters hauled the rough-hewn stones to Temple Square, where expert stonecutters gave them their final shape. Moving the stones from the canyon was a real challenge. Smaller stones were loaded onto ox-drawn wagons.

The names of the faithful quarrymen who continued the work until the temple was finished in 1893 are enclosed in the monument. Rough stones were hauled to the temple block suspended under great two wheel carts drawn by ox-teams, until the railroad was built in 1872.

2003年10月4日 · A marker placed by the Church in 1994 gives the history of the quarry and the temple construction. It notes that transporting the rock to the temple site — using ox or mule teams and, later, attempting barges on a canal — was a painfully slow process until the 1870s, when it could be hauled on flatcars from a railroad station in Sandy.

2010年8月27日 · There were teamsters who hauled the Granite to Salt Lake. Then the common laborers who were sent from the surrounding wards and would come for a week to 10 days at a time. There was also skilled quarrymen and stone masons who …

2014年9月18日 · Immigrants from Europe taught quarrymen to split off rocks into various sizes. Then teamsters hauled the rough-hewn stones to Temple Square, where expert stonecutters gave them their final shape. Moving the stones from the canyon was a real challenge. Smaller stones were loaded onto ox-drawn wagons.