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Bridge Mountain Civilian Conservation Corps Company 962, Zion National Park, 1935. (National Park Service Photograph, J. L. Crawford Collection) Washington County. Ray Squiers came with a training program at the airport and remained. Other young men returned home with their new Dixie brides. Local resident Don Horn of Washington City recalled life in the CCC camp. [It was] run like an Army camp. We got up to a bugle in die morning, and there were an Army captain and a lieutenant in charge of the camp, but I believe everyone else was a civilian. Everyone in the work force was a civilian. We did a lot of road building, grading and graveling. Most of our entertainment took place in Hurricane. The CCC would send a truck to bring all the boys who wanted to go, down to Hurricane on a Saturday night.30 FundamentaUy the CCC efforts were intended to benefit the local communities, so it was expected that residents would be sympathetic. Certainly that was generally the case in Dixie. One company, the 961st, originally worked near Panguitch but was transferred to St. George for the winter, during which time the men worked on flood control for the Santa Clara Creek. A long dam was budt about a half mde above the Shivwits Indian Reservation. It included both dirt-fill
