Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; San Rafael Swell; Swinging Bridge; San Rafael Bridge Dedication; San Rafael River; CCC
The dedication of the San Rafael Bridge, or Swinging Bridge, as it became known, was attended by a huge crowd including the governor of Utah. The headlines of the day read, "Mystery Lands Opened Up." The building of this bridge by the CCCs opened...
Orlon Mortensen joined the CCCs when he was 18 years old and was assigned to Camp F-11 Company 959 in Ferron. They worked for the Forest Service on Ferron Mountain and in Ferron Canyon. Young men who joined the CCCs were given a roof over their...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Forest Service; CCC
Civilian Conservaton Corps Company 959 worked on Ferron Mountain and Joe's Valley building roads, dams, stabalizing stream beds, and planting trees. They worked in areas that had primitive or non existant roads.
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; CCC
A crew of young men and their leaders working on Ferron Mountain. There were 200 boys in that camp the first year and 47 married girls from Emery County. The Civilian Conservation Corps throughout the United States built 125,000 miles of roads,...
Orlon Mortensen joined the CCCs when he was 18 years old and was assigned to Camp F-11 Company 959 in Ferron. They worked for the Forest Service on Ferron Mountain and in Ferron Canyon. Young men who joined the CCCs were given a roof over their...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; CCC
Company 959 working on Ferron Mountain under the direction of the Forest Service. The young men had to work very hard, and much of their work was done by hand.
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Mortensen, Orlon; CCC
Orlon Mortensen joined the CCCs when he was 18 years old and was assigned to Camp F-11 Company 949 in Ferron. They worked for the Forest Service on Ferron Mountain and in Ferron Canyon. Young men who joined the CCCs were given a roof over their...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Company 959; Ferron; Mortensen, Orlon; CCC
Orlon Mortensen joined the CCCs when he was 18 years old and was assigned to Camp F-11 Company 959 in Ferron. They worked for the Forest Service on Ferron Mountain and in Ferron Canyon. Young men who joined the CCCs were given a roof over their...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Ferron; Company 959; Mortensen, Orlon; CCC
Orlon Mortensen joined the CCCs when he was 18 years old and was assigned to Camp F-11 Company 959 in Ferron. They worked for the Forest Service on Ferron Mountain and in Ferron Canyon. Young men who joined the CCCs were given a roof over their...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Company 959; Ferron; Mortensen, Orlon; CCC
Orlon Mortensen joined the CCCs when he was 18 years old and was assigned to Camp F-11 Company 959 in Ferron. They worked for the Forest Service on Ferron Mountain and in Ferron Canyon. Young men who joined the CCCs were given a roof over their...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Company 959; Ferron (Utah); Price, Owen; CCC
Owen Price called the CCCs "Roosevelt's Instant Army." He said, "We had the training; we never fired a weapon, but as far as discipline, we had it! We were soldiers. All we had to do was move." Company 959 of the Cvilian Conservation Corps was...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Price, Owen; Log Fence
Log fence built by the CCCs. Owen Price belonged to Company 959 located first at a base camp in Mount Pleasant. They worked on the Gooseberry Creek projects. They then transferred to a base camp in Ferron and worked on Ferron Mountain.
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Company 959; Price, Owen; Log Fence; CCC
Log fence built by the CCCs. Owen Price belonged to Company 959 located first at a base camp in Mount Pleasant. They worked on the Gooseberry Creek projects. They then transferred to a base camp in Ferron and worked on Ferron Mountain.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swinging Bridge Dedication; Civilian Conservation Corps; CCC
Orlon Mortensen belonged to Company 959 which worked in Ferron Canyon and Ferron Mountain but came to the dedication of the San Rafael Bridge built over the San Rafael River by another CCC company. It was dedicated in 1937, and a huge crowd...
Orlon Mortensen joined the CCCs when he was 18 years old and was assigned to Camp F-11 Company 959 in Ferron. They worked for the Forest Service on Ferron Mountain and in Ferron Canyon. Young men who joined the CCCs were given a roof over their...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Company 959; Spike Camp, Ferron (Utah); CCC
Company 959 had a base camp in Mt. Pleasant (Utah) with a Spike Camp at Gooseberry Creek and then transfered to a base camp at Ferron (Utah) with a Spike Camp on Ferron Mountain. Tents are lined up for the CCC boys to sleep in rather than in...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; CCC
Company 959 worked first out of Mt. Pleasant. They had a spike camp in the Gooseberry Creek area. Then they moved to a new camp in Ferron that was built by the Salina CCCs. They all worked for the Forest Service. This photo shows part of their...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps.; Swing; Mortensen, Orlon
Company 959 of the Civilian Conservation Corps. worked with the U.S. Forest Service doing projects such as bridges, roads, picnic areas, dams, ranger stations and recreation areas such as this double swing on Ferron Mountain.
This man was an CCC Education Supervisor for the Ferron Camp located in Ferron Canyon, which is the backdrop for this photograph. He had defected from Russia when he was 12 years old, and had joined the army as soon as he was old enough. He was a...