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COLEMAN
Abiqua Creek
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T7S-R1E-Sec14
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1928 - ____
June 9, 1928: "The county court yesterday decided to build a Howe truss covered bridge across the Abiqua on the Tufa rock road, about seven miles east of the Rocky Four Corners intersection on the Silverton Scotts Mills road. County Roadmaster W.J. Culver and his assistant, Frank Johnson, made a trip up the road Friday morning and found the present bridge, known as the Coleman bridge, in very bad condition. The new bridge will be built by Peter Schmidt and the county crew. At present the crew is working on a bridge several miles farther up on the same road, known as the Steel place bridge." (Daily Capital Journal)
April 1, 1949: "Report that one end of the Coleman bridge on Abiqua creek has a 'give' of several inches when logging trucks cross it brought a promise of prompt action Thursday from Marion county court.
The state industrial accident commission wrote the court that the span, first covered bridge above the B&R company logging operations on the Abiqua, had some cracked timbers and that one of the approaches, on a 20-degree angle, sank considerably under heavy loads. The commission said such conditions were a possible hazard to the many employes of the area." (Statesman Journal)
April 6, 1949: "County Engineer Hedda Swart and Robert Evenden of the accident prevention division of the state industrial accident commission Wednesday afternoon examined condition of the Coleman bridge on the Abiqua which Evenden had reported to the county court as unsafe. It was decided some changes would be made at one approach with a little propping up which is expected to remove any hazard to log truck drivers about whom Evenden was chiefly concerned." (Daily Capital Journal)
March 27, 1952: "Possibility of securing an abandoned steel bridge in Portland is to be investigated by Marion County engineer's department. It was reported to the County Court that the span could be bought for five cents per pound or $3,750. Most probable use for it would be to replace the Coleman covered bridge on the Abiqua Road." (Statesman Journal)