| Show Vernal Verna Guard Construct Bridge BridgeO O Ora Strawberry Near Duchesne I Assembling Friday after noon the men of Vernal's Com pang pany A boarded trucks and started on a motor march which lasted until midnight THEY A at the site For t their project this year ver In the area of the the rry River Valley located 20 miles southwest of Duchesne ne Duehesne County th ron construction forthe for forthe the bridge over mtr the Strawberry River md and the road leading to it while the guard furnished the and heavy ment The Guards Guard's time sched ule made completion of bot both the road and bridge Impossible In one we weekend so Duchesne will complete the work THE THE GUARD convoy left the armory Friday evening with trucks at hundred yard intervals Inter Inter- Intervals vals Without major problems the group reached a turnoff several miles west of Duches ne where It left the main high way and headed south Al AI though the Pinnacles area could have been reached by a much shorter route it was feared that the heavy equipment might not be able to pass one of the bridges along that route AFTER THE Vernal unit met meta a detachment of Company A from Price camping areas were assigned and part of themen the themen men put up pup tents while others set up the cooks cook's tent and company headquarters tent The following morning one squad was assigned to tear out outa a 11 fence which was blocking the dump trucks and would be re- re rebuilt rebuilt built at the end of the project in a new location Another squad began digging garbage dumps and cleaning the camp area area-a privately owned area Some started hauling fill dirt for the road to the bridge and most of the men began cut M Mt ro t r w wa a U 2 STEVE SAWYER at right welds steel beams for bridge constructed by Vernal Guardsmen at river near Duchesne ting trees and working on the bridge Itself THE THE WORK site was noisy with the sound of axes chop ping an electric generator roaring hammers pounding trucks dumping dirt and an all air compressor truck providing nil air for the all air hoses which ran the pneumatic saws and earth tam per There were sev several ral pro pro- problems beems with equipment The Tho loader broke deep and required several hours to fix while the dump trucks had sad to wl lt One One of the five ton dump trucks had hada a wheel seal break down and Craig Harwood fashioned andI a I gasket from an old corn flakes box Using 5 gallon gasoline cans for a 11 jack and several sticks the wheel of one of the jeeps was repairEd The fuel pump on the truck driven by Stewart Olson broke and It had to be towed back Sp 4 STEVE Sawyer spent I much of his time cutting and welding the heavy steel I 1 beams which were used for the bridge to support the main roadway because the old oldbridge oldbridge bridge which had wood sup porting beams wasn't able to support the traffic The Pinnacles area was nam nam- nam named ed because of high rock tow ers of eroded shale which tower above the vertical almost canyon walls The Duchesne county courthouse has a large mural depicting the area where th the Guard unit worked on the bridge |
