Yesterdays: Glacier National Park bulldozer operator Charles Siderius survived rolling his dozer 350 feet off the Going-to-the-Sun Road near Logan Pass
Chuck Siderius survived rolling this bulldozer some 350 feet off the Going-to-the-Sun Road in June, 1964. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
June 4, 1954
Flathead County Commissioners were lobbying Montana’s congressional delegation to finish attaching three bridges to cross the North Fork of the Flathead River at Polebridge. The county had already bought three bridges from the Bureau of Reclamation that had crossed Wheeler, Sullivan and Graves Creek along the new Hungry Horse Reservoir, but they needed about $85,000 to complete the job up the North Fork.
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