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Show New Bridge At Spectacular Hells Backbone Now covering the narrow ridge that separates the two 1,000 feet deep chasms of Death Hollow and Sand Creek and forms the famous Hell's Backbone on the mountain road between Escalante and Boulder is a new 18 foot wide and 110 foot long bridge built by the Forest Service. For several years the creaking of tho old bridge built by the C.C.C. men in 1933 his made travelers tier- New Hell's Backbone bridge built by the Forest Service. Crew man In foreground Is Vernon Dean Itoundy. vous, considering to what depths they would be plunged should the bridge collapse. That their fears were groundless was discovered by crew men when they had to use much time and dynamite to take out the bridge supports. Ono abutment, In fact, was used In the new structure, which required 33,790 feet of lumber to complete. Tho rather hazardous job was done by a crew of six Escalante men under direction of Jim Applegate, For-est foreman. "There was no . loss of life or propert)", reports Otto Rojndy, one of the workers, "except for the bosses' hammer, which took the plunge into Death Hollow" |