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BRIDGE CREEK
Bridge Creek
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T11S-R21E-Sec21
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March 23, 1951: "The state highway commission at its May meeting will call for bids on a new bridge across Bridge creek, about five miles north of Mitchell. This information was brought back to Prineville by a delegation of chamber of commerce members who were in Salem Thursday for a conference with R.H. Baldock, state highway engineer, on highway plans
Bridge construction will include nine-tenths of a mile of road construction, to relocated highway No. 28 at the approach.
The new Bridge creek bridge will replace an old covered bridge, built nearly 50 years ago. In spite of recent shoring and foundation supports, the old bridge cannot stand the heavy traffic of 1,000,000 feet of lumber trucked weekly from the Mitchell district pine sawmills to the City of Prineville railway, it is declared.
Residents of the Mitchell district have launched a campaign to have the old bridge left as a picturesque monument of pioneering days of highway construction, when annually thousands of head of sheep crossed the bridge on the way to summer range." (The Bend Bulletin)
Bridge construction will include nine-tenths of a mile of road construction, to relocated highway No. 28 at the approach.
The new Bridge creek bridge will replace an old covered bridge, built nearly 50 years ago. In spite of recent shoring and foundation supports, the old bridge cannot stand the heavy traffic of 1,000,000 feet of lumber trucked weekly from the Mitchell district pine sawmills to the City of Prineville railway, it is declared.
Residents of the Mitchell district have launched a campaign to have the old bridge left as a picturesque monument of pioneering days of highway construction, when annually thousands of head of sheep crossed the bridge on the way to summer range." (The Bend Bulletin)