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Show M Black Rock CCC Since the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps, many miles of truck trails over the desert have been constructed by the Grazing Service CCC camps, "truck trail" being the term used to designate a road project. Each truck trail is set up as an - individual Job, lis-jing the nunv ; ber of miles and the amount of work to be accomplished. It is not uncommon to hear the stockmen tell about the mode of travel in the days gone by, of horses and wagons, of bumping oveu rocks and dragging through mud, all of which was necessary in order to replenish their supplies for camp and livestock. The Ibex road, one of the projects pro-jects explained abede, begins at Highway 6, in White valley, which is between Marjum pass and Cowboy pass in Millard county, coun-ty, and runs in a southerly direction direc-tion and to connect with the truck trail leading west from Black Rock. This road is 32:1 miles long. Its construction has made it possible pos-sible for the sheepmen in the vicinity vi-cinity to haul water, using tanks, trucks and troughs. This method ' of watering livestock eliminates the necessity of concentration of large number of sheep around the few watering places, as was the i j case prior to the,' institution Jof I the Civilian Conservation Corps. 1.T |