| Show S VISIT SITE OF OLD BRIDGE rc I mid tutu UIl l Inspect Jordan 11 I et J JIt WIlli View to to New Structure It r Is Is quite probable that not beCore spring will there be built a n bridge OVI Jordan rivet river on 01 North Temple Templo street to 10 take the tho ot of the thc White bridge recently demolished The silo was vis visited vIsIted yesterday by b Mayor Mayot Brans ford and eight members of tho th city and the tho bridge proposition WitS was In mill all HH its phases It may perhaps bo be b that thata a it 1 wooden structure will Jill bo he built rather father than titan one of oC steel The Ahe he first would cost 2500 the thC latter How Ilow ever tIe the city engineer In iii Instructed to thaw draw plans for a n metal iJ otal bridge Tho The councilman who went with Mayor Mayot ta ot Bransford were bould Murdoch Hodgson Wood Martin Marlin and ODonnell Tho old oW White bridge was built In Ina a most unique manner in lit that a 0 saw was scarcely a used during durin the entire period plod of construction Tho Th lute late Pre Pres President dent ident John Taylor then tIter ISIS 1813 a II main mcm lar iiii of oC tho quorum of the apostle apostles tended the making of the bridge from beginning to end enI Most Mo t of the themen themen men working under tinder his direction wore Canadians C s men hailing from a n part of oC the British dominion where snow cov coy covered covered ered the th ground at least half the year NU and where lumbering was the chief occupation of tho the Inhabitants Experts Expert In Iii the tho use of ot the th ax the tho broadax and time the adz those the e men nien hud little use USI for Cor time the saw and anti that tho the work done tione by b bI them on White bridge was WI ot or a high bight order was fully recognized reeo hy by nil mill per tier persons I f sons n Who thio ho ever ovet Inspected tho the structure Most of if the material that was wait put Into Int the bridge came ume front from Rod lIed Butte Dutt canyon anyon Kven that part of the work I was wis its superintended by Mr Lr 11 Taylor who often ol n slept in the tile mountains with that thu lI milan li who were re logging Among those who spent much time In iii getting gelling out the thO White bridge timber were the tho late lIon Hem George Q Cannon and amid time the late Inte Home Among tile tho few fol now living who were tero there also milso 0 was George GeorgeS J S Taylor Taylor son on ul John Taylor and ant he lie h was waR vory vry young Dung III at tho th time he lie a 0 labor equal to that of iii i n If 0 if I more mu I mu cc years Tho liitt principal lIlt iitti tin I reason for to i building build ing a 11 abridge bridge over OCI at rut that early date hate was for fir the tilt purpose of oC providing a 1 haff af moans tiC if driving cattle atlle across the thie river l to For Fol nearly two IO years tile the I hail had to ford horses hor e and hOIn over to lo the splendid there but considerable loss ItI to the custom as at times LI mimes the tho river rIH wm ta ii high ii and amid then titan iK its HI tints now the stream was WitS and ii ex itt ii to man and anti andal al |
