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Show Sunday. February 24. 1S80. THE HERALD. Provo L'tah-P- age 27A National Register Adds 2 Utah Historical Sites to List - SALT LAKE CITY Two private homes in Salt Lake and Emery Counties hve been listed in the National Register of Historic Places, Utah State Historical Society announced. The Oakwuod Estate in the Mill Creek area of Salt Lake CUv and the Justis Wellington See ley n house on Center Street in Castle Dale were both listed in the register for their significar.ee as the homes of prominent Utah citizens, said a Utah State Historical Society spokesman. Oak wood is a large Vicy torian home with Eastlake style decoration. It was built around 1905 as a summer cottage for Susanna Emery-Holme- s, known world-wid- e as the "Silver Queen" for her mining successes aad her elegant parties. Susanna moved to Park City with her family in 1884. She married Albion B. Emery, the first of her four husbands, in 1S&4. He was an early speaker of the Utah House of Representatives and had many mine holdings. Following his death in 1899 Mrs. Emery eventually parlayed the mine holdings into a huge fortune. In 1900 Susanna Emery married Col. Edwin B. Holmes, a milliomare from Detroit The Holmes were leaders of Salt Lake society. At Oakwood the "Silver Queen" built this house and lavish grounds to serve two-stor- as her rummer residence Oakwood in Castle Dale is a one and half story even produced its own electricity until red brick bouse. It s significance 1927 when Utah Power L Light's power is derived from the Mormon pioneering lines reached the Mill Creek area. Sor- accomplishments of Seeley, who helped ing its heyday, Oakwood was the site of to establish Castle Dale as a successful many summer teas, luncheons, and settlement other lavish entertainments Seeley was elected to several local public office, beginning in iSao. In addiThe estate has been kept in the fami- tion to his civic accomplishments, Welly The current owners plan to restore lington Seeley worked hard to bring the the old mansion. basic amenitities of life to the fledgling The Justis Wellington Seeley II home community of Castle Dale He and his Excavators Digging To Stay With Laws By BARBARA S. MOFFET National Geographic News Service WASHINGTON A few yean ago a major oil company set out to build a chemicals plant in South Carolina and wound up digging artifacts. When an archeological survey of the land the plant was to be built on turned up two prehistoric Indian sites and four sites from the 18th century, company officials became fascinated And later, when it turned out that for other reasons the land was unsuitable for :'ae facility, the company tossed in $3,000 anyway, just to see what archeologists continuing family ownership aw5Si3&BQEaMMB3fl3Sh Arkansas Archeological Survey, which "Contract archeology has helped the scienter tremendously by forcing us to work in areas that otherwise would have been ignored." A dam being built in southwestern Colorado by the U.S. Water and Power Resources Service, formerly the Bureau of Reclamation, has been labeled the "world's biggest archeological project" So far 15 million artifacts have been recovered from the area on the Dolores River, which eventually will be a reservoir used for irrigation. The artifacts were left by the Pueblo Indians of A D. 600 to 1100. Archeologists believe they later moved on from the site to the better known Mesa Verde. Besides finding the Pueblo lode, excavators there nave studied the remains of two defunct Colorado towns Great Bend, which died around the turoH of the century when it was bypassed by the railroad, and McPhee, which faded in the 1940s when its lumber company shut down. Ou re u Lrd U n n n VJUUUyU Project Ward Weakly, chief archeologist for the Water and Power Resources Service, said the survey and salvage are expected to cost taxpayers S5 million for a seven-yeperiod. For public agency and private company alike, meeting archeological requirements can be expensive. But private companies often do so cheerfully, said McKinney of the Interior Department, sometimes to bolster a sagging image. Other government archeologists, charged with seeing that the laws are enforced on federal land, report negative attitudes among some industry people, .who view required archeology as "digging up arrowheads," just another overreaction to industrial progress. "You have one guy telling them to look out for the bald eagle and another warning about hurting an endangered plant, and then we archeologists come along and talk about artifacts,' ' said Dan Martin, of the Colorado office of the Bureau of Land Management. "We sound like just one more voice crying in the wilderness." Even the Bureau of Land Management, charged with managing 63 percent of all federal land, has trouble following the laws. They are hampered, ll said Martin, by a budget and staff. The result, he said, can be sloppy science and a need to hire out some too-sma- w j u ni UUUUUU r5it I , ar - - Our Business L - r . . . general foundry, machine and job work and our contribution to the economy of Centra! Utah is quite significant. Over 80 people are employed here and we provide an annual payroll source of over $1,000,000. is 3 A. A. Backman is re The nipped io lite lob! To iur E. A. Backman Md rJiarEief Bs projects to private archeological "firms." Public Utilities and Municipalities "We think of the tremendous acreage of Land we manage ... and we know it's got to represent a heck of a lot of (archeological) sites. We'd really like to get ahead on the projects, but right now we're lucky if we can keep up with them." re Flanged - Mechanical Joint Elbows Open Bell Ring-tit- e Crosses. Tees, Sleeves and Specials Pay $15.6 Million In Dividends During 1 980 - sed. The Veterans AdDENVER ministration will pay a total of nearly $15.6 million in dividends during 1980 to 112,263 veterans holding GI life insurance policies in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico. The VA payments are part of the record $566 million in dividends to be paid this year nationally to 4.1 million holders of GI life insurance. VA chief Max Cleland said the record figure is $81 million more than the amount paid last year. breakdown is: The four-stat- e Colorado, nearly $8.5 million to more than 60,000 insurance holders; Wyoming, nearly $1.1 million to nearly 7,400 holders; Utah, more than $2.8 million to more Shan 22,700 holders; New Mexico, nearly $3.2 million to nearly 22,000 holders. He reported that 3,304,000 veterans still holding World War II GE insurance policies will receive dividends of neaty $491 million, an average payment of $149. The 1978 average dividend on these policies was $128. Payment to 517,000 Korean conflict veterans who kept their GI insurance in force will total nearly $32 million, an average payment of $62, up from $48 in 1979. The 93,300 World War I policyholders will receive $27.8 million, an average of $298 each. The 1979 figure was $256. Certain World War II and Korean conflict veterans with service-connecte- d or serious nonserv will make the payments throughout the year on anniversary dates of individual policies kept in force from World War I, Word War H and the Korean conflict. All VA insurance dividends are made automatically and there is no need for to apply for them or to policy-holdr- s contact VA about them, Cleland stres We supply meehanite and ductile iron castings and water main fittings throughout the Western Hemisphere and to many countries overseas. Uachine Shop Facilities VA to disabilities will receive dividends for the first time on their insurance policies in 1980. A total of $15.75 million will go to 168,000 holders of these special policies, an average dividend of $94. Cleland said the amount of dividends paid during the year will vary with each veteran according to the type of policy, amount of insurance, age at issue or renewal and the time the policy has been in force. 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There will be performances both evenings on June 8 for the benefit of all citizens who wish to attend. 27-2- s" C7 The house has been excellently preserved, due to the forward-lookin- g nature of Seeley s original plans and was hired to evaluate the site. the excavation for the cil company. Dig We Mast The oil company might have been unusual in its zest for archeology, but its involvement in the field is not so rare these days: It's required by law. A series of federal laws, the strongest of them passed in the last 10 years, state that any time land is to be disturbed such as in dam building or laying of a its hidden treasures must power line be sought out and either salvaged or protected. The Archeological Conservation Act of 1974 takes the archeology a step further. It authorizes federalagencies to earmark up to 1 percent of a project's budget for survey and salvage of artifacts. The laws apply to all federal and state projects, as well as any project of a private company that requires a federal license or involves federal funds, including government loans. "Most everything has federal money in it these days, if you look far enough into it," pointed out Charles McKinney, manager of the Federal Antiquities Program in the Department of Interior. The laws have changed the shape of archeology in the United States, so that today many archeologists work on contract, excavating to satisfy federal laws first and preserve the country's cultural heritage later. The result has been a leap in the number of discovered archeological "sites," which can be anything from a handful of stone chips to a village of hundreds of acres. Stephenson estimates, for example, that 4,000 of the 6,000 known sites in South Carolina were found on contract, all of them in the last decade. Flood Plain Conies Alive A lonely flood plain in southern Arkansas where only one archeological site had been located now bustles with 150 of them, most traced to prehistoric Indians, because the Army Corps of Engineers chose it for a new dam and lock. Before the archeological protection laws, the rich 6,000-acsite on the Ouachita River might have gone unnoticed, or perhaps been destroyed. "Before, archeologists went for mem electrification en the eastern side of the Wasatch Front contract administrator for the "Any time they go to build a plant now, they give us a call," said Robert L. Stephenson, director of the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, which did 27-2- system that produced the first areas where they thought they'd get the best return," said Frank Rackerby, would find. VA mother built the first burr mill in town, he installed the first telephone in Castle Dale, built the first lumber house in the area, and installed an electric light The Freedom Festival Air Show will also be headlining the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Demonstration Team, Bob Hoover in his 1 Mustang and Shrike Commander and other top stunt pilots. P-5- I' |