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Phone DOueler 3EE3 established on South Creek, be abandoned as there appeared no way to get food to the men. The only means of communication was the use of a field radio receiving and sending set of the type used by the United States Forest Service. Food was brought to the men on mule back up the snow covered horse trails from Fairview, making the journey most difficult and dangerous. Nevertheless, the men stayed through the winter in the South Creek Camp, and just as quickly as the weather thawed out, were again at work with tractors, air compressors and drilling outfits, blasting out the rocks and shaping up the road. The cold was so severe during the winter that hundreds of deer were frozen to death in the area, many of them perished in trying to swim across the partly frozen Kern River in their efforts to reach feed in the lower country.

The construction of the steel bridge was commenced in the spring of. 1937 and was completed on August 15, 1937. Tt is anchored to rock on both approaches, is 60 feet above the river, with a clear span of 150 feet and a total length of 37O feet and a n'idth of 20 feet. The roadway is 18 feet wide with no adverse grade more than 7 per cent for northbound traffic or 4 per cent fo.r southbound traffic and no curves less than 100 feet radius.

The formal dedication marking the completion of this bridge and road was held on August 15,1937, under the sponsorship of the Porterville Chamber of Commerce. The long procession of cars moving slowly over the new bridge and road that day, heralded, not only a new industry for Tulare County-the southernmost lumber industry of the Sierra, but were leading the way for thousands of vacationists into the vast recreational area and playground made accessible by the new road. Big tree groves, mountains, meadows, streams and beautiful camp sites await the tourists. Camp grounds with the simple necessities will be developed by the Forest Service as fast as public demand requires. The Big Tree groves, however, will be preserved in their primitive state.

This road, while going a direct route from Walker Pass via Kernville to Porterville, will also connect with the proposed Western Divide road along the summit from Ice House to Quaking Aspen, completing the road development of the area. I-ogging plans and recreational plans of this new area are being carefully correlated by the United States Forest Service to insure not only the greatest use and harvest of the mature timber, but also to insure the preservation of the aesthetic and recreational values of the area as a whole in the years to come.