Washington County News | 1942-09-17 | Page 1 | Construction of Santa Clara Bridge to Start October 1st

Construction of Santa Clara Bridge To Start October 1st A letter received Monday by Lawrence Wadsworth, from H. J. Eustice of Salt Lake City, project proj-ect manager for Governor Herbert B. Maw, indicates that he will arrive in St. George around Oct. 1st to start in motion the construction con-struction of the proposed Santa Clara creek bridge, at the junction junc-tion of the Rio Virgin and the Santa -Clara creek. The news comes with great satisfaction, sat-isfaction, not only to the ranchers, cattlemen, and mine operators of the present-day, who will benefit most from its, construction, but is likewise hailed by the older citizens citi-zens who recall what such a bridge could have done through past years, and who understand just how much this will mean today. to-day. Construction o! the bridge is made possible at this time by the allocation of $3,500 by Governor Maw in his budget to benefit the sections deprived of defense plant projects and shorted of man power through the war and war industries.