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Show E m?i Section "B n April 28, 1983 81 Pag Fairview Museum takes visitor on nostalgic trip into the past by Bruce Jennings If the residents of Ephraim, Manti as a matter of fact, if and Sterling the residents of any Sanpete Valley want to see themselves as town they used to be they should visit the Fairview Museum of History and Art. The museum will officially open on May 1. And it will contain hundreds of new items, for building the museum is a constantly process, Golden Sanderson, president of the Fairview Museum Corp., curator, and founding father, says. And the process is not confined to the additional artifacts that are finding places for display within the walls of the Old Fairview schoolhouse and the grounds outside. Improvements to the facility itself both within the building and are constantly on the grounds underway. g People continue to donate time, Mr. labor, money and artifacts, In fact, the Sanderson says. museum is built on contributions." Ephraim is represented in a most notably, number of ways perhaps, by equipment used by P.C. Peterson in operating a stone quarry east of town. The Peterson contribution includes a Studebaker the heaviest wagon built wagon which was by the company 40 of stone tons of hauling capable from the quarry to the railroad siding, where it was loaded on the e and a heavy flat cars cart also used in hauling materials. McFarlane The late William contributed hundreds of items from his personal museum. Many of them are on display in showcases. His gifts include the bell on the one-hors- locomotive that Brass kttls contributed traveled the line from Nephi, past now Wales Coal Bed then to the Morrison Mine in Six Mile Canyon. The dental equipment of Dr. H.R. Clark is on display in a small room narrow-guag- by Lloyd O. Christianson. e that was probably once an office at the end of a hallway. Another Manti donor is Lloyd 0. Christiansen, who gave several of his brass kettles to the museum. The erounds around the building are crowded with equipment that tell of the Sanpete Valley quarries, coal mines, transportation, agriculture and other pioneer industries. There's even a display of the tools used in harvesting the ice before modern refrigeration. One of the outdoor features is a solarium. Its beams are from the first telegraph line that marched down the valley. It contains a waterfall, a fountain, an old buggy, benches for those who want to pause in contemplation for a few moments, native plants. The space inside the building is put to maximum use. For example, an alcove that has been built above the stairwell contains a surrey, donated by Stanley Gill, and two mannequins, dressed in garments going back to the past century, contributed by Blaine Sanderson. us in the belief that these treasures should be assembled in one place where they can be safeguarded and are available to those who want to often review the story of 'these our fathers. ft X Ci si- h - J Golden Sanderson stands by wagons usd in th P. C. Peterson granary. pw vr Do you like to look at old pictures? There are hundreds of them and numerous documents of historic interest. There arc kitchen utensils, tools, clothes, old books, magazines, a varied paintings, weapons collection of pioneer artifacts. There is also a display that is prehistory the skeleton, in a setting of sagebrush, of one of the inhabitants of the valley before the white man made his appearance. "Nearly all the artifacts," Mr. Sanderson says, "have been given us by Sanpete donors. 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