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Show TWO NEW BRIDGES PLEASE RESIDENTS . , Sevier and Emery County Citizens Now Have Much Better Facilities for Travel of Road Vehicles. Residents of Sevier and Emerv counties are well pleased with the two new bridges over Queatchuppah and Ivie creeks on the new Bmery-Sallna state road. Castle Dale citizens are especially jubilant, jubi-lant, because with the completion 'of the Greenrlver-Cnstle Dale road, a part of which Is to be chanced to secure a better bet-ter routine, they feel that they will have the consistent route for eastern traffic tu the north rim of the Grand canvon The Queatehuppah bridge has' forty feet over-truss work, with two fourteen-foot fourteen-foot approaches on four-foot cement masonry piers. The Ivie creek bridKe has a sixty-foot overhead truss, anchored to the solid rocks on both sides, and with twenty feet of clearances beneath In the Ivie creel; bridge there were used 7000 pounds of iron, while in the Queatehuppah Queatehup-pah bridge but C000 pounds were required. re-quired. The Ivie creek bridge is on the line between be-tween Emery and Sevier counties The new road parallels the creek to a junc-t junc-t on with the old road. The bigest portion por-tion of the old road formerly lav in Sevier Se-vier county, the county line being lust beyond the Emery town line. The sand! which previously proved so disastrous to attempts at road construction, has been removed, to a large extent. |