| Show been built with extra bed strength and large well-ironed wheels When one of these wagons was loaded withtwenty-ton rock three teams of horses and the skill of an expert teamster were required to pull it The rock was shipped to distant places by railroad on flat cars Until 1890 it was hauled by wagon to the Sanpete Railroad in Wales The Sanpete Railroad had been built in Wales to was mined there ship to In 1890 Salt Lake City the Denver and the Rio Western Railroad builtline to Manti was built at the junction 89 Remains of this north of Ephraim of spur the can The Parry spur quarry still coal that Grande road be seen and Highway three miles In the early 1900stone was shipped by railroad to several dealers in San Francisco When it was to be shipped in the late fall of the year it needed to be cured or exposed hurt it stone it to air to harden Occasionally over from around the the the the high box Sierra weather so cars that were frost used Mountains straw or even To manure would to not ship further was the protect packed stone Some of the stone was used in the local cemeteries There were many monuments and markers fashioned of the white oolite limestone number of which were carved in intricate designs dates of birth and verses Lambs columns and Flowers and vines outlined the names death and sentimental sayings or adorned balls the were tops of many also monuments Fancy carved The white oolite stone is very adaptable for fancy carving Carving of the stone wasdelicate process and required skill artistic ability and patience Tt was done by hand with special chisels and hammers or mallets told The the done by instead mason and how hand Many ofhammer stonecutterBefore pattern the hand grounds perpetual care drawn deep to on the carve rock The had shadings lettering that was also timeslarge wooden mallet was used to save the head of the chisel and of the cemetery instituted 33 many were planted cemetery in lots grass were |
