Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — The Weight of Liberty. [ARTICLE]

The Weight of Liberty.

The weight of the Bartholdi statue is about 400,000 pounds, and of this 40 per cent, or 160.000 pounds, is copper. The statue proper cost about $40,000, the total cost reaching fully $200,000, and by the time it is erected on its pedestal $500,000 will have been expended fn thus honoring liberty. As erected on Bedloe’s Island, the torch will be about 300 feet above the wrier level, the pedestal being of nearly the same height as the statue. —Aew lork World.