 By the time the dismantling was finished on July 1 , 1931 , some 10 @,@ 000 stones weighing a total of 2 @,@ 200 short tons ( 2 @,@ 000 t ) were shipped on 11 different freighters traveling through the Panama Canal to San Francisco . In 1931 currency , the monastery project had cost Hearst about one million dollars . 
