Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — The Greatest Religious Edifice in America. [ARTICLE]

The Greatest Religious Edifice in America.

The great building at Salt Lake, which the Saints have been twentyeight years in constructing, is approaching completion, The main walls are done. It is built of granite, which is hauled from the mountains back of Salt Lake on great wagons or trucks with wheels twelve feet high. The walls are ten feet in thickness, and eightyfive feet in height. It has cost up to this time $4,500,000, which has been collected by the tithing tax. It will require six years more to finish the work. Probably no other church building in the United States has been constructed in a way to secure such durability as is possible to this. Some of those who predict tlie early ruin of the Mormon hierarchy are wondering what use they can make of this temple. But such calculations are rather premature. The sect may endtre longer than the temple.— Alta California.