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Show The Survey's Findings 31 sist of heavy horizontal purlins supported by end and interior log walls, then a retaining rail-either of boards or logs-set along the eaves and the raking eaves. Willow or aspen poles or boards were placed at a right angle across the purlins and covered with straw. Clay was then packed on top to a depth of about six to eight inches and held in place by the retaining rails. In addition to buildings, Grouse Creek ranches contain hay derricks, buck rakes, corrals, loading chutes, fences, and other features. Derricks and buck rakes were used to stack hay before about 1950 (site 54). Most ranches have two corrals, one for horses and another for cattle, and there is generally a feed lot for pasturing the cattle during the winter. The most prevalent type of nineteenth-century fence is the "pole fence." Found throughout Utah, poles fences are made by running pine (Douglas fir) poles or rails horizontally between pairs of upright posts and securing them with wooden pegs, nails, or wire. When such poles were unavailable-and stands of Douglas fir were found only in Pine Creek Canyon to the east and over the Nevada line to the west-posts fashioned from Juniper trees (called "cedar" locally) were used to make a type of stockade fence. These fences, visible on sites 63 and OGC 20, consist of posts vertically placed in the ground and held tightly together with wire. By the 1930s wire fences were in general use. Saddle-notch corner timbering on the Edward Frost granary, ca. 1900. (Tom Carter; GCCS TCB-25504/25) A. Raymond Tanner house, site 7. A railroad tie bungalow built in 1914. (Roger Roper; GCCS RRB-25557/2) Dirt-roofed Edward Frost house, site 52. (Carl Fleischhauer; GCCS CFB-231196-11/4) Cutaway drawing of a dirt roof. (Trav Winn) |