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Show L.n . i y- a. . " - -tJ' "'v.';-, . . . Moved Monday from a site at 924 South 400 East Springville to Salt Lake City, the old pioneer cabin above . will eventually be come part of the SUP sponsored Pioneer Village and resume its usefulness, this time as a tourist attraction. Pioneer relic will live min of famous SUP Village' - only a few hours to cover the same distance with the house that took its builder 2 or 3 days in a covered wagon. Eight of Mr. and Mrs. Bart-lett's Bart-lett's 13 sons and daughters were born in the log cabin, which in those days was the kind of home in which most couples began housekeeping and it took longer to build it and perhaps was harder to pay for than the biggest homes today. N The old log cabin has seen many years of useful service. When the Bartletts built the 2-story brick home on the same site, the log house became rental property for a few years. Later it was used as a bee house and subsequently for storing berries and then as a granery. , At the rear of the cabin, Mr. Devenish has built a modern up-to-date storage room to replace re-place the cabin, which may yet see many useful years as a A Springville citizen's contribution con-tribution to the project of preserving pre-serving pioneer relics, was made this week in the form of a log cabin over 80 years old, built by early settlers Wm. Henry and Leah Bartlett at 924 South 400 East Street, to the Sons of Utah Pioneer's Pioneer Pi-oneer Village. Begun in 1876 and completed in 1883, the cabin was on the property recently purchased by W. R. Devenish and he gave it to the SUP who moved it Monday Mon-day to Salt Lake City. It will serve as the Pony Express stop station until after the ride and will then be placed plac-ed in Pioneer Village. The cabin is one of the last in Springville built by the early settlers. It is in a fine state of preservation and the movers believed it would stand the 50-mile trip in good shape. They expected it would take tourist attraction. Lewis Childs of the SUP organization, or-ganization, has been working on the project of getting the cabin to the Village. Three grass fires Springville's Firemen have been called out on three fires during the past week, all of which were grass blazes and with no damage done. First call was Wednesday on the property south of Brook-side. Brook-side. Sunday, July 10, the department de-partment was called to a fire about two miles west on 4th South. Monday, July 11, a train passing through was the cause of a grass fire along the tracks on highway 50 south of town. |