| Show 1882 the first stone was shipped to Elias Morris dealer in stone in Salt Lake City George Billings was paid 30 for the quarry work and 20 for hauling the stone to Wales to be put onrailroad carfor this in Mr stone Parry feet to One The 257 to Salt special account cubic thousand dimensions book feet at seventy-nine Mr Morris paid 116 of each They stone were ranged 60 cubic cubic feet from foot of 157 car stone Lake City which were donated to place in the Salt Lake Temple be given cubic 134 was used shipped in From this beginning the quarry business became very profitable for the owners and also provided an income for the men hired to quarry and haul the stone Most Manti and men of the men who worked at Ephraim In later years came from Wales Utah The the quarry came from some of the best work- workmen stayed at the quarry during the week They camped in tents until the stone bunkhouse was built They returned to their homes on Saturday for fresh they traveled to the from 25 00 supplies quarry Very in time early to Monday begin morning work They worked ten hoursday six daysweek for wages ranging to for man and his team Procedures for getting the stone from the hill were varied intricate certain amount burden natural shoveling was of consisted other took danger of and peated loose and the the derrick wagon that was hauled were of the easiest the rocks bushes clay removed by When over and scraping the solid rock natural one foot to one sledge hammer and The one-half feet quarry man waited hauled way quarry the again into could wagon open was driven involved in it short sometimes blasting wedges moved the board It until the rock broke Using big crowbars rollers from all the small sometimes fissures faults apart withheavy hit soil wedges and In materials reached then skill be it position where fastened and to huge because waited This was free and could be pried he rolled the rock onto distance with and breakage at the it the it railroad was pincers slung and 30 was If to chain the destination huge the steel chains loaded the re on stone running This the chain was |
