In 1947, Harry Moore started the bridge at Luxor to access the timber on Steamboat Mountain. He continued construction through the record high-waters of 1948 by raising the road day and night with
side-dump gravel boxes on his logging trucks. Consequently, for many years this was the only Columbia River bridge in area accessible in high water on a dry road. It was a good high bridge, high enough to let the last
riverboat through. The bridge was maintained with dynamite and a boat every spring to let the logs and driftwood through, After the Company stopped clearing it, nobody looked after the bridge and it was slowly pushed over
by the logjam that built up over the years. The Forestry burnt and dynamited it so that all that is left is the set of pilings on each end. |
