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Show FERRY BOAT IN THE GRAND RIVER SINKS Moab, Utah March 9. The towns of CastletOU and Richardson. together With the entire mining and stock re glon of the La Sal mountains, are cut off from the outside world by the sinking of the Dewey forrv boat on Grand river last night, over which all the traffic to suppls those localities passed A nice floss, occasioned by I the recent thaw tore tbe boat to pieces and caused it to sink to th. bottom of the riser, where it cannot be recovered To replace the ferry ssill cost In the neighborhood of 2, oiiO. which Grand counts at this tun is financially not able to stand There is a bill pending In the ctate legislature asking for 10,000 to build a suspension bridge over the riser t Uewes, and the residents of the coun try served by the ferrv feel like the state appropriation is their only re- I course in the matter of the restora- 1 'ion of means of passage over the rl er as the countv is now bonded j beavils and could not raise the funds for a bridge The ferry has never been adequate to tbe needs of the COUhtrj lying BOUtU of It, and the bridge has long been one of the nr genl needs of the eastern parts of the state. |