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located here have completely disappeared leaving at times not even a
clue. When Emory was cutting timber, his log truck would often break
a span of the bridge across Bay Creek, and it had to be fixed before
traffic could go through. This always meant a long drive around until
it was fixed. Again Frank Davis would be called upon to help repair
the bridge, he knew how it was built, thus knew how to repair it. The
county would scrape or grade the road at least every couple of years,
not very well maintained.

During dry weather there were some sandbeds that were just about
impassable, except by truck or jeep. They eventually did put clay in
some of them to help or when necessary and possible we would go
around them. In extreme wet weather we also had a problem getting to
the main paved road, due to some of the creeks or branches would
flood the area surrounding a bridge. During the summer we had to live
with extremely dry, dusty and deep sandbed roads. Then when fall came
around, and wet weather set in, there was a problem of too much water
in too short of a time. Soon after the rains stopped the water soon
drained off to a flooded river.

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