Show NUTTER RANCH RAZED BY FIRE Word has just reached us this week that the Nutter ranch house located on this famous ranch in Nine Mile canyon on the Price- Price My Myton ton road was leveled by fire Sunday evening Jan None of the outbuildings is reported to have been damaged ed but the entire house and all its contents were completely destroyed The who were in Phoenix Phoenix Phoenix Phoe Phoe- nix at the time of the fire ed in Myton last Monday to the ranch to investigate the damage They left the next day for Salt Lake City stating that they will have plans drawn for a anew anew anew new house to be erected in the summer Has Narrow Escape A Mr Schultz the only occupant occupant occupant pant of the house at the time of the fire is to have nar- nar roly oly escaped with his life having been asleep when it started and waking to find the fire already making good headway over the entire entire entire en en- tire house The only other person on the ranch was Verl VerI Iorg lorg who was occupying occupying- the bunkhouse They report that the fire started in the kitchen apparently around the flue The men tried to reach the telephone telephone telephone tel tel- ephone to call for assistance but but were cut off from It by the Ule fire I which spread rapidly in the wooden wood wood- en structure The nearest neighbor neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor is Mrs Neal Hanks some 2 2 miles distant The main part of the house was of log construction having been built about 50 years ago when it was used as a stage station by bythe bythe bythe the old Concord stage which traveled trav trav- traveled v- v from Price to Ft Duchesne years before the Indian reservation reservation reservation reserva reserva- tion was opened to white settlers It It was added to at various times until in 1927 it was remodeled to contain 9 rooms and was comI completely com com- I modernized Famous Landmark The house carried an insurance of and the personal property proper proper- proper proper-I ty 1000 according according- to a representative representative representative of the insurance company I which is said to cover only a small part of their value particularly in the tine case of the personal property prop prop- erty The Nutter ranch Is Is one of the most famous I in the tain region comprising comprising- as It does large holdings of land and cattle On the land are located several of the cliff dwellings and hieroglyphs hieroglyphs hieroglyphs hiero hiero- glyphs for tor which Nine Mile canyon canyon canyon can can- yon is famous and which have attracted scientists from far and near Famous too is the flock of peacocks which the ranch has maintained for years ears It is said to have been one of the most beautiful and complete ranches inthe in inthe inthe the state |