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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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r experiments have not had sufficient time to prove them-selves. At the present stage of the development of oxy-chloride-magnesiancements, they are not as cheap as ordinary Portland cement-. The life ofan artificial stone exterior for a building, church or otherwise, shoumeasured not by years but by decades. In light of this fact, magnesiaor magnesite cement plaster or finish has not been used in California fora long time. It certainly is not displacing Portland cement mortars atpresent. What it may do in the future is a question for year- to answer. WILLIAM B. GESTER, Concrete Concrete is more than structural engineering material. Itlimited, and inert like Steel, tile, brick and stone. Structural concrete ispotent in wonderful possibility, a great socializing agent. It means for alltin- people, pure water, clean -treet-. good sewerage s> -terns, unbunschool-house floors, safe bridges, In - uses and infinite hydraulic pi iwer dc\ elopment. —Exchange. 74 The Architect and Engineer
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Pony Express Art Glass Windows Depict Western Life in Realistic Fashion THE possibilities of landscape and pictorial work in art glass havebeen brought out in an impressive manner by Harry R. Hopps inthe five stained-glass windows, now the talk of every visitor to thenew Union passenger station of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Salt LakeCity. Designed and executed by this well known artist, the windows arethe wonder of the Mormon State and of every transcontinental passengerwho has been fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of them in his journeythrough the city. Hopps was given carte blanc by the railroad people who wantedsomething expressive of modern progress as well as typical of the earlydays of the far West before the Gringos came. It is doubtful if theartist with his brush and palette could blend more beautiful colors and paintupon the canvas more life-like figures. Each window is complete in itself,depicting some scene of Western life, both old and new. The windows are five by

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