Mount Auburn Cemetery

[Letterhead: J. R. BODWELL, President, WILLIAM WILSON, Treasurer, C.H. CLARY, Secretary. Hallowell Granite Company, PROPRIETORS OF HALLOWELL WHITE GRANITE QUARRIES. AGENTS FOR Fox Island, and Spruce Head Granite, and Jonesboro' Red Granite. Hallowell, Me Dec 20^th 1871.

C. W. Folsom Esq. Supt Mt Auburn Dear Sir;

Your favor of 13^th inst was duly received. but we have delayed an answer, hoping to be able to report that the Stone was at the R.R.

We have been waiting for snow, and night before last got it just as we wanted. After waiting one day for a road to make we hitched on to the Stone this morning and hauled it about 3/4 of a mile and coming down a hill it got the Start of us & ran into the gutter - and it took all the rest of the day to get it back into the road /. but it is now all ready to hitch to & Start again in the morn which we shall do without fail. We cannot tell you at just what time

The block in its present condition is estimated at 50 tons; _ it is proposed to reduce it to 35 or 40 before removing it from its present place.

It will then have to be rolled or hauled by pulleys on balls or rollers about 100 or 150 feet to a more level part of the quarry, where it is to be mounted on wheels, and hauled by oxen to the cars at Hallowell, (luckily, most of the way, downhill,) 2 1/2 miles.

It must then go on a "locomotive transportation car" to Boston. ^ Such cars cannot always be had when wanted.^ The ^^part owner of the quarry, Mr. Wilson. (one of the "Hallowell