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Show TRUCKCARAVAN ; NOW N IDAHO , Train Leaving Ogden Carrying! I Material anad Equipment 1 for Road Work The truck caravan which left nden ' Tuesday for McCall. Idaho. carr'lng I materials for tho construction of . bridges In northern Idaho and roads by the United States Uureau of Public Pub-lic Roads, has thus far motored over the Idaho lino without mishaps, ac-1 cording to B. J. Finch, district en-j gineor. ' Kighl two-ton trucks, each of which I was fitted with both heavy holsters' 1 and Interchangeable metnl bodirs weje I loaded to capacity with construction j I equipment, purchased from Ogden firms. The trAin Is expected to arrive nt McCall during the early part of tho coming week. TO DIVIDE LOADS On arrival at McCall. on 'ho Payette Lake. 1(5 miles north of Boise, the 'loads and trucks will ho divided. ( i truck and a Ford cur will be assigned i to the construction on tho Warren, wdgon rond. extending from McCall to Warren, 45 miles; and six trucks Will 1 he assigned to tho Dustln Bridge to b ! erected on the Salmon river near War-! , ren. Tho truck train camp equipment I complete, for a construction crew of ( I forty men, plows, scrapers and small : tools for the grading work of a crew , jof'thls size for use in the Warren Wn -IgOII road and a smaller camp outfit nt . twenty men capacity, which will be I established nt tho Dustln Bridge site i for brjfdge construction crow. It is the Intention to begin at once ' Ithe construction of the wagon road and tho more difficult and most ncod'd; ; sections will bo built this eason The Dlistin bridge n designed as a j i 120-foot timber truss, with 20-ft. ap- proaches at etch end. Th" support- I log plrs and abutments are to be i of masonry. The bridge will have a clearance of 2 fot above the stream, i This bridge is sixty miles from McCall, Mc-Call, the nearest railroad point, and also from the nearesl sav mill, eo that It his been found necessiry to trans-port trans-port all material by truck from Me-; Call, with exception of heavy wooden1 mrnibiTfi which will be hewn at the site. HEAVY II 1MVG. Approximately 27,000 ft. B. M of' lumber, i" tons' of bridge Iron, n il bolts, etc., and 20 tons of cement are I to bo hauled to the bridge by truck. ', While material is being delivered a crew will bo employed in excavating' for piers and abutments and In hewing j heavy timbers for use in bridge construction. con-struction. ' A former bridge at this point was I washed out by excessive high water! in July. 1910. and since that date t j Wry rough ford has boon In use. pass-t ; aide only 'it low water The construe-I tlon of the Warren Wagon road and of tho Dustin bridge will make acces-1 sible a rich mining and agricultural I district at Big Creek and the Chamberlain Cham-berlain basin and will permit easy access to the Thunder Mountain area,' heretofore almost inaccessible by wa- I gon or motor. This area lias recently) boon made a part of the Id.iho Nation- j il forest and the I'nited States fores! service are rapidly developing second! class roads and trails to assist them J in forest fire protection Tho work on the Warren Wagon road will bo under the direction of P J Clark, superintendent of construction, con-struction, and the haulintr of material 1 and erection of the Pus'm bridge Willi be under the direction of C. W. Pierce, chief Of party. |