Logan Nation | 1901-10-12 | Page 5 | Comfort in Primative Dwellings

Comfort in Primative Dwellings. Sod houses, or, as they are locally termed, "soddies," are now being built in large numbers In eastern Colorado. They are made of oblong pieces of sod cut from the prairie, about eighteen inches in length, seven inches broad, and from 3 to 4 inches thick. No foundation is required, the sods being simply laid on the prairie, and up goes the structure. "Soddies" are cool in summer and warm in winter, and when the snow-laden wind is whistling without a cozy sod house, In which there is a good corncob fire, is not to be despised. Chicago Journal.