Jensen, Utah, Jan. 21, 1915

Dr. Wm. J. Holland

Carnegie Museum

Pittsburg, Pa.



My dear Dr. Holland:-

Though there is nothing very "startling" to report just now I must not neglect to keep you informed concerning our operations.

I hope before very long to be able to send you a copy from chart so you can see at a glance the status of affairs, or rather the condition of things, at the quarry.

From before sunrise these cold winter mornings we are pecking and pounding away day after day. Part of the force is now concentrating its efforts on the strongest, most impregnable part of the citidel [sic] and it is visibly yielding to our efforts.

Some of the excavating is easy while in other places it is more difficult. The rock is usually the hardest where there are the most bones, so the one place where bones are piled together so thickley is especially difficult to deal with. It is the worst tangle that we have struck yet I think nearly everything will come out in good shape.

We could hardly ask for more favorable conditions for work. The winter has been cold -- the thermometer ranging around zero nights (has been as low as -10 or -15) but, most of the time calm as a summer morn.