David C. Lundeen’s Family Pictures

West Jordan, Utah about 1907 when David C. Lundeen lived there.
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David Russell and Lucille with Father David Charles holding Howard Kenneth Lundeen
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David, David Charles, Lucille with Lucille’s little baby, Roy.

Dad holding Roy Luciles baby

David Charles Lundeen with his Grandson Roy

David Charles(left) with his Brother Joseph and a another miner. Dugway, Toolle, Utah
On the back of the Cabin picture above-- "We had no Autos those days, Note me standing up against the wagon, Uncle Joe just through patching his Overhauls apprently not a very good job on the knee. This is the Hotel you will dine at when you go out in September called the Hotel Lucille Howard."

The mysterious log cabin of Dugway Mountain

While exploring the North end of the Dugway Mountains years ago I ran across this log cabin. I always wondered about the cabin for there are no suitable trees in the area with which to build such a structure. Late I found what I believe to be the story of how the cabin got there.

The following appears in “The History of Toole County” published by The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers

“In the spring of 1900, my father had completed a log cabin, dirt floor and dirt roof. It was really home. He had the notion to go to Dugway Mountain, so all there was to do was prepare the grub box, pile some hay in the wagon and hook up. The following afternoon we arrived at a very pretty grassy basin, where we got water for our horses out of a mineshaft. We met some prospectors at this place who showed us the diggings whre they expected to soon become millionaires. We remained overnight here and the prospectors made a eal with father to buld them a log cabin. The nearest logs were in the Skull Valley Mountains fifty miles away.The Young men who had the mine were Joe and Dave Lundeen. 

In a couple of days we returned to our cabin and began to get a set of house-logs. Indian Bill had a cabin on Hickman Creek, which he traded for a horse with my father.

Clyde and I did most of the tearing down of the Indian’s cabin. The Indians, of course, lived in Tepees. These logs we loaded on wagons and hauled to Dugway. Father made one hundred fifteen dollars for this contract.”                  —From the Diary of Hiram Wallace Severe.