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Show HISTORIC CABIN ' TO BE CMED FOB City Will Take Steps to Safeguard Safe-guard Oldest House In Utah Utah's oldest house, n small los ' m. built in the vcar 1845 on the banks! of the Weber rl-t in the southwest pcirt of U(flen. m:iy sjon bi plncetl on i the city hull park and Classed us one J of the best historic relics of the state' itirODgh an uction which nia be t:ik' n I. Mayor I rank Fra n. I and 1 he hoard of city cpmmlssloncra. TO III i l .1 Siil l Tl R At least tho important structure will he Immediately protected from storms tnrougb i)i-- i-ieuKui oi u h d over 11 winle it stands In Ihe rear i tlic itv fire station it Ninth street and Wash-' irgton avenue. At a rncetlns held last nipiit tne hoard of commisslonura br-(lercd br-(lercd tti.ii the protecting sti-ucturo inav bl tulU at onct so that vvh.ll thi Welle is taken to the city hal! grounds I.,: r II may be in cfood condition, it.,- ictlon vv:is tuken following the ppeurance Of a didepation beforr th. board headed by Mrs Ambrose Shaw,! Sh'., oaik i of the cab.in, who presented j It to the city and asked that it he properl) protected. Othei meribera si i in- delegaUon were Ure Irvlng"Ci Km-' Bl'ett and Mrs. John aqQregpr The commission ordered thai th cabin he protected by nn Inclosure un-i t,ll such time as it can ) moved to' the citv hall park and u permanent building erected tor it Mr. Shaw Ban i r ix- n oi preBnLu ui taum io in, city three years eo. Sh. declared the cnbln hnd been I dun by Miles Goodyear and then sold t" Captain James Hrow n Later her Ltither purcliased th.- cabin and upon ! is death she purchased It. Slu- said, the records were perfect, showing the: cabin to b'e the oldest in the stnte, If not in the tntermo'untoln countrj'. Mayor Francis wild this morning that the cabin should have a proinl-; nt-nt place on the city hull grounds so i that people might view it and declared that this would soon be done. |