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Show 30 Tuesday, Septembers, 1989 Cents Volume 90 No. 36 Peach Days celebration traditions continue Peaches, Putters, Progress and Pride is the theme of this years Ferron Peach Days which gets underway Sept. 7 and continues through Sept. 9. A full slate of activities is on tap for one of Utahs oldest on- going celebrations. The celeb- ration begins on Thursday with the Miss Peach Days Contest at 7 p.m. in the elementary school. Eight teenagers have entered the contest. They are: Kacie Jo Anderson, Oni Dow, Trinidi Killpack, Katey Youngsters join Utah Museum of Natural History Curator Frank DeCourten on the steps of the Emery County Courthouse. Mr. DeCourten was in Emery County as a guest of the museum board. He discussed the Long Walk Quarry with guests Friday night. Han8on Photo b Long Walk Quarry reviewed must be delicately removed, ten, curator of the Utah and some bones have to be Museum of Natural History, fractured The magic spot along Cot- along natural who expressed his enthug cracks and later reassembled, siasm in welcoming the tonwood Creek may develop New a species, County Emery into the most important Museum of Natural History as quarry in the kis, a sauropelta Edwards,s a sister entity to oversee the world. The Long Walk Quarry and possibly an acrocantjo-imeat have a eater, Long Walk show and to show saurus, valuable bones rendering exhibits from the quarry. He which could link the early and been found, The bones scattered like said the lab work could be are late periods of time in telling three and and done in the new museum. the story of the evolution of jackstraws, four-toee prehis-bonof the prints the dinosaur. Until now, the Mr. DeCourten said that oric animals found are being finds from the Cedar once the building is up, everyMountain period have iu blocks of sandstone broken thing will snowball, and the amounted to little more than a off from the hilltop, funding will come. He said shoe box full of bones. Many slides showing the that local people have to Loads of bones have been specimens were shown on the become involved and enthucarefully uncovered, encased screen at a recent gathering siastic. We are going into the in plaster and taken to the sponsored by the Emery third year, and this season has Utah Museum of Natural His- - County Museum in the Emery been most productive. We will tory. Found in hard limestone. County Courthouse. The prog-th- e keep coming back as long as bones cannot be dug but ram featured Frank DeCour we are generating funds. To By Elizabeth Staff writer Hanson forth-comin- Pleurocoe-paleontologic- al d ignore the quarry and not excavate would be a disservice to science, he-sai- Owens, Melanie Lyon, Melissa McKell, Tiffany Nelson and Britt Weber. The queen and her attendants will reign over the remainder of the Peach Days Activities. The celebration continues on Friday with horse races at the city park beginning at 2 p.m. Between the races will be barrel racing for girls of all ages. Exhibits in the city park building will be open to public viewing from 8 p.m. 3-- At 7:30 p.m. is the talent program in the park. The program will feature local talent as well as The Osborn Sisters from West Valley City. Fireworks, as well as a dance at 9 p.m. which features a disc jockey and light show, will follow the program. Saturdays activities begin with a breakfast at the church park at 7 a.m. Relay races will be held at city hall at 9 a.m., and the parade will begin at 10. It is scheduled to move along State Street. After the parade, childrens activities will be held in the park while the horse races will continue at 1 p.m. At 4 p.m. is the demolition derby and another dance will be held that evening at 9. New this year to Peach Days is a golf tournament which begins Friday, Sept. 8, with an individual net and gross format. Saturdays tournament will be a scramble. To sign up, contact the pro shop at 384-288- 7. d. Mr. DeCourten expressed graditude for the people offering food and services to the quarry team, especially when the floods occurred in July. Some of his associates, Harmon and Nelda King of Murray, have been chiseling away since July 24 when they parked their motorhome and gave in to their addiction. Mr. Harmon is on a disability pension for polio. Their children are grown now, and they returned back home this week, but are planning to return next summer to Long Walk, the magic spot first discovered by Carlyle Jones. San Rafael Swell Management Plan is now available to the year 2000, according to BLM Area Manager Jim Dry-de- By LAYNE MILLER Staff writer n. The Bureau of Land Managements proposal for the of the San Raphael Swell until the year management 2000 is available for public review and comment. The proposal sets the management framework If any action takes place, from building fences to new water, it will have to adhere to this plan, Dryden said. Dry-de- n went on to say the plan can be modified. It still requires a new environmental assessment plus public (Continued on Page 2) fir Eagle Canyon bridge offers great challenge By ELIZABETH HANSON Staff writer Boom down, Andy. Andy lowers the boom of the Horse as it towering Sky-Gu- y lowers a backhoe operator down the side of the chasm. Two wheels of the machine connect with solid earth while two remain suspended in space as the operator uses a bucket to chew off a hunk of the cliff. Countless times the crane equipped with a 350 foot boom and 180 foot mast handles materials and men as the tied arch bridging Eagle Canyon is fitted together. The 15 ton bridge segments are lifted 260 feet over the chasm and bolted into place to form a parabolic curve. A parabolic curve is a plane curve formed by the locus of points equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point on the line. Consult a geometry professor for laymans language for clarification. The configuration of the arches on the curve made it difficult to fabricate the 850 tons of wearing steel fabricated in Pleasant Grove by Utah Pacific is heavier than the normal because of the lay s - 1 ers of different metals designed to have a rusty exterior and non rusting interior. Let the years go by, the bridge will remain a buoyant rusty hue complementing the scenic grandeur of the desert. And it will never need painting as its sister bridge about 200 yards away must. In fact the old bridge is equipped with cages holding sandblasters to remove the old paint and painters to spray on new. The rust will not penetrate beneath the next layer of steel. The strength of the extra heavy steel is apparent in comparing the two bridges, the older one built in the 60s. Olsen-BeEngineers and Contractor of Provo were given the challenge of erecting the span. In the interest of speed and economy they chose to rent the al American 9310 Guiy Horse from Jakes Crane, Rigging and Transport International of Las Vegas. It was brought in on a fleet of lowboys and assembled segment by segment, the top piece the American Flag. A tank holding 10,000 gallons of water served as counter balance. Construction work on the new portion of through Emery County includes a new bridge at Eagle Canyon, a massive pro The idea was to position the crane on the abutment rather than use traditional cableways. temporary steel structures built on either side of the abutment were built to hold guy wires. Many of the guy wires are tied to dynamome A ters and bolted into the bedrock with dozens of 30 foot long screw anchors set in epoxy based grout and testing to a minimum of 8,000 pounds. The rigging system is complicated and must be continually checked to keep the dino-tie- d lines equal tension wise. ject and a challenge to modern-da- y engineering. Photo by Eliza both Hanson A safety net extending beneath the span saved the life of a worker, who missed his footing and fell. He was offered the day off to recover from the scare, but chose to be lifted back on the job. Iron and steel workers are a special breed who adjust to precari ous conditions. The work is dangerous, but strict safety rules have avoided any fatalities. The bridge supports going up will support the bridge deck. When the bridge is completed this fall, traffic will be (Continued on Page 2) |