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Show MeNipi Log cabins reflect pioneer past in Emery County Jeffs cabin,now near new home of Tracy Jeffs in Castle Dale, will be preserved to teach great grandchildren hardships suffered by pioneer forefathers. Massive tree looms over log cabin built by Erastus Curtis and sons in 1877 on Cottonwood Creek. The family ox. Ban ner, was buried under the tree, which has fallen since picture was taken. Many homes still stand as tribute to those who shed sweat, tears, blood summer of 1879, visions muscles and mentally swinging. As soon as of a snug log cabin reviewed log cabin blue the pile was plentiful comforted their hearts, prints He had learned enough, he hooked the When Matthew and For a few weeks they the art from his father, oxen onto the lashed When the first pole, and guided them Mary traveled by ox could live in the wagon team over the moun- - box until the home was English Colonists to the site he and Mary tain from Mt. Pleasant ready. arrived in America, had picked, to Orangeville in the Matt contrived a rock Matt flexed strong they existed in crude shelters of rush and foundation and laid the bark because no one poles on it. A cabin knew log craft. carpenter has to know Not until 'the Scan- - whether to use round, dinavian Swiss and squared, or logs hewn German immigrants on two sides, Matt chose to hew the fresh from the forests of the old country logs on both sides for a arrived and started to smooth fit and less chop, hew and notch work than the squared timbers into strong all around variety. The shelter did the log interior side he dressed cabin settlements (peeled off the bark), Story and Photos Elizabeth Hanson by mushroom America Even with cabin of Denzil Jacobsen, Emery, sports adobe brick fireplace. cistern and pump were added in later years. Two-roo- m Every cabin had one the outdoor privy set a tasteful distance from the home. A across Carefully, he notched the ends of the logs for raw a tight fit. He used and rough sawed planks for materials free accessible, a sharp framing the single broad axe and hand forged square nails, building a cabin is difficult. Fortunately, a stand of tall pines beckoned from the Cottonwood nearby creek bottom Dorr Hanson shows four fined jackson fork used to lift hay from wagon to stack or barn. window and door. A neighbor helped nail up the heavy rafters, Over the rafters were nailed overlapping layers of rough sawed lumber. In the absence of shingles Matt was forced to cover the Matt chose trees about 15 inches in slightly pitched roof diameter and started (Continued on Page 2) Aden staker 3 hf . cabjn from Ca,vjn M for $200 and moved in with wife Annie. Their five children were born here. Alden shingled cabin originally built with dirt roof, Pond and empty corrals surround long deserted home at Cleveland. The cellar was common to the period. dirt-roofe- d w 4I Poplars uprooted by winds lay across cabins built by Charlie Foote, Emery. The Foote place, Irrigated by Muddy Creek, blossomed as an idyllic homestead for many years. Apples still grow in orchard, m. Randolph Frandsen cabin in Huntington seems to come from a storybook, with fence forbidding anyone to enter. W Wi |