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Butte Creek
1901 - 1941
August 13, 1901: "Bids will also be received at the same time and place for repairing the Ross bridge across Butte creek on the Mt. Angel and Marquam road..
Bids to be marked 'Bids for repairs on Ross bridge.' " (Statesman Journal)
Bids to be marked 'Bids for repairs on Ross bridge.' " (Statesman Journal)
August 20, 1901: "In the matter of the report of the road master on the Ross bridge across Butte Creek, -- Accepted -- Ordered that the Surveyor advertise for bids for same." (Daily Capital Journal)
August 24, 1901: "On the Ross bridge across Butte creek, Royal and Son bid $394 with crib and $294 with piles. J.E. McCoy's bids $297 and $229 respectively.
Mr. McCoy's bids were both accepted, but in the Ross bridge his two bids were taken under advisement. This last named work is to be put in jointly by Marion and Clackamas counties and the bid will be subject to the action of the latter." (Daily Capital Journal)
November 20, 1901: "County Road Master W.J. Culver filed his report on the construction of the Ross bridge across Butte creek at Scotts Mills, which was built jointly by Marion and Clackamas counties, giving his statement of the total cost of same as follows:
Contract price........................$297
Adjustment of bridge.............20
Repairs..............................................4
Total.............................................................$321
The bridge was contracted for and constructed by L.W. McCoy, and Marion county's share of the cost amounts to $160. The report was adopted." (Statesman Journal)
May 21, 1929: "One of the eight bridges across Butte creek and Pudding river which Marion county owns jointly with Clackamas county, will be roofed this week. Peter Schmidt will build a new roof on the Ross bridge, the only bridge between Monitor and Jack's bridge over Butte creek.
The other seven bridges in which Marion shares ownership with Clackamas are the east of Hubbard bridge, the Killen bridge, the Barlow bridge, the Morris, the Monitor, the Scotts Millls, and Jack's bridges." (Daily Capital Journal)
October 23, 1931: "Fisher and his crew will now go over to the Ross bridge southeast of Monitor and do considerable work to get it back in shape, since the approaches and some of the cords of the structure are rotted." (Statesman Journal)
April 18, 1941: "Another of the mid-Willamette valley's old covered bridges is about to feel the wrecking bar.
The Marion county court and the Clackamas county engineer, meeting Thursday afternoon at the 34-year old Ross bridge crossing Butte creek at the Marion-Clackamas line three miles east of Mt. Angel on the Marquam road, agreed the structure should be replaced soon.
''We'll replace it in the near future,' N.C. Hubbs, Marion county engineer, reported. 'We put in false bents last week to bolster it up until the new bridge is built." (Statesman Journal)
August 19, 1941: "Work on the Ross bridge over Butte creek east of Mt. Angel is expected to be finished tomorrow as far as the bridge proper is concerned but there will be a little additional work to be done on the fills before the bridge will be opened." (Daily Capital Journal)