Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-20
THE GREAT BRIDGE.
Sums Facts and Figures Connected
with this Greet Public Improve
ment and The Plan OF II.
How IL VIII LEAD 20 Several Good County
Roads-Aotion Of the County Al
lance on ths Road Question.

One Of the two great questions agitst
ing the city Of Fort Worth to-day is the
proposed aid Of the City Council to the
magnificent iron bridge which should
span the Trinity 10 North Fort Worth.
The time has come when the land north
Of the river is needed for many
purposes, and when the people Of
one-third of the county desire easier &C
cess to the county seat. The Commls-
sioners' court has pstrioticslly voted an
appropriation to aid in the building Of the
bridge and approaches, agreeing to pay
one third the total cost OF S25, 900, and
now the people ask tie City Council to
join the commissioners ana do for the
city what the commissioners have done
for the county. Il order that all may
thoroughly understand the matter, msy
see exactly what it is proposed TO do,
TIE GAZETTE has prepared with coDsid-
cradle trouble the diagram above To the
top Of the diagram is north. The cut
shows the position CT tie visduct OF
bridge end approaches, with the outlets to
Houston and Rusk streets in Fort Worth,
as well as the continuation of these
streets on she north side. The grade Of
t1C pliSsC NHS ppiSNSAEG W lLAC St1Ct %
is in no case over six feet in the 100,
while the grade CI tie present road
down the bluff is twelve feet in
the Kindred. On TIE left will be sseu the
depots CT the ST. Lonis, Arkansas and
Texas, sn0 the yards Of that comsany,
slso the streets leading TO the same.
IE--,;v IS 10 a.s
beyi nd he river for more than half
& mile, asd Include both depots sud the
entire yards OF tie St. Lcuis, Arkansas
ard TsX5s Railroad and about 500 acres
CT land. The entire structure Is 10 be sll
lror, with 6 tWenty-foTr feet roadway
and five feet footways on either site, the
total width inside the handsome iron rail
ing being thlrry-four feet in the clear.
TIE totallength Of bridge ard approaches
proper will be fell $50 feet. As is
shown the bridge ends in the center Of
North Main street, which mss already
been gradSd for two miles, and will be
grayeied the entire distance without the
city paying one dime. Main street is 100
feet wide, seventy feet for roadway
and sidewalks on either size fifteen feet
wide. Citizens of the couIty have taken
up the work where Main S rect stops, and
at their own expense have opened road
eighty feet wide as far as Pontiac, which
is straight road to the &C unity line, snd
which will be made graveled
highway. The work done on North Main
street not only costs tie city nothing,
but is given to the county for the use of
the public free of charge. On the north
side of the river ale The Gene
teries of the city and the
Catholics to which there is no
but irst-clsss one should be
provided. Ga the north side, and inside |
the city limits, will be the depots OF 8 |
great railroad system Of which this cityls !
the terminus. On the north side will be |
the Fort Worth union stockyaTds, CON- !
mission mems offiaes, bank, etc, neces-
sary for the transaction of the live stock |
business, and the business OF the stock |
men will constantly call them to |
Fort Worth, snd last, but most |
of all on the north side OF the |
river sre thousands Of farmers who def
nand easy access to the msrket for thsfr
products. The benefits to accrue will 3e
general and therefore should the cost iall |.
IN sll alike. Nothing would sid the buildsp
ng OF good county roads in the north psxtf
,fathe county more than this bridge. ~
On the question OF county roads the