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21 June 2005 (original upload date)

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Granite for temple

Granite for temple — Unknown

Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory, 1872. The ground is strewn with boulders and detached masses of granite, which have either fallen or have been hewn from the walls of Cottonwood Canyon. The quarrying consists of splitting up the stone into blocks that can be transported to th

Photograph by Darwinek at en.wikipedia