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Show Parkites Inspect Log Home Friday, curious Parkites journeyed to the East bench of Snyderville Valley to have a look at the first log home to be constructed in the area in over 50 years. The rustic residence, a massive three-story, 3200 sq. ft. structure built entirely en-tirely of hand-cut and notched notch-ed lodge pole pine logs, is the future home of Jan and Amanda Peterson. Notwithstanding the presence pres-ence of a modern hydrolic crane, the house raisingwas reminiscent of days gone by as burly men hoisted the huge logs into place then securing them into place with 10 inch nails. All in all it took the crew of six men a day and a half to erect the cabin's shell from floor to roof. The log home, which makes the more modern homes of Park City seem out (Continued on Page Three) , whereby each home or building build-ing is first built in Montana from scratch, then carefully care-fully dismantled with each log numbered according to its specific placement in the building and shipped to its permanent destination where it is reassembled. According to representatives represent-atives of "Alpine Log Homes," they can build practically prac-tically anything that can be built out of wood, stone or concrete with logs. Alpine will either build to specific individual plans or to their own design. No two Alpine Log Homes are alike. Although the Peterson home is the first to be built in Utah, Rob Morris of "Natural "Na-tural Log Buildings of Utah" the local Alpine distributor, indicated that they have had a tremendous response to the concept and will shortly begin be-gin building more log homes at locations around the state. Log Home (Continued from Page One) of place, was first built in Victor, Montana, according to Jan Peterson's plans by "Alpine LogHomes." "Alpine "Al-pine Log Homes" pioneered the log construction concept |