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Show cracks between the logs and wider cracks between the wide cottonwood floor boards. It was a difficult place to keep clean, and flies were always in abundance. Bill covered the walls with flattened cartons by tacking them in overlapping position-and by the next year he had the walls plastered. He partitioned a corner of the cabin to form a tiny bedroom, and with a stove from a sheep wagon, an old table, bench and cupboard left by Anderson, he camped there while he was building the lambing sheds and corrals. Frank had started the project and when he had time he was able to help Bill on occasion. They built an outdoors stairway on the cabin and created an upstairs room into a sleeping room that-along with sheep wagons--would provide sleeping quarters for the men who would work there during the lambing season. John K's entire family, and even the men who worked with him, always referred to the place as Out South or The Cove. Bill caught the vision of John K's dream-erecting adequate maternity-ward pens and corrals for the ewes - and being handy with a hammer and saw he bent his efforts toward finishing them in time for the 1928 spring lambing. It was a lonely and first winter for him in Sanpete, but he was happy to be busy. As extra help was needed he recruited men to help complete the project. And what a sight those pens and sheds were when they materialized. The total complex of sheds, corrals, etc., covered about twenty acres. 196 |