Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-18
BRIDGE THAT WILL
Be A WORLODEATER
Eight Spans Of Solid Concrete for
The San Pedro Road,
PLANS OF SENATOR CLARK,
Huge Structure, 500 Feet Long and
"a Feet In Height, 40 span the
Santa Ana River.

Engineer II. NJ. Mccartney Of the San
Pedro. Los Angeles s. Salt Lake rail-
road, has received some blue prints TO
pass upon Of bridge that is to be
thrown across the Santa Ana river In
Los Angeles county, Cal. The blue
prints are the outcome Of a conference
held with Senator Clark They have
neen prepared by Chief Engineer IL. II.
Hawgood and all indications are that
they will be adopted.
LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
The scheme is to build huge bridge
of solid concrete which when COM
pleted viii be the largest bridge OF its
| kind in the world BY taking local
! points In demonstration the bridge
| would extend from he Mccormick block
| at the corner of First South, to the
| entrance of the Kenyon hoted, a block
below on East Temple street.
SOME DIMENSIONS.
II viii consist OF eight spans, each
| OF which from base to summit would
| permit the placing OF the Mccormick
| business block with the cornice knocked
| off under the archways. In plain figures
/ the bridge will be 500 feet In length with
| eight spans of Sc feet In the clear and
| as many piers IA feet IN thickness.
| From bedrock to the top the affair viii
| be GA feet in height. The structure VIII
| be "a feet In width, and when completed
| Engineer Mccartney estimates that II
viii last for ages.
STEEL TRUST RESPONSIBLE,
"The truth OF the matter is" said
| Mr.. Mccartney this morning, that II
we have to wait for the steel trust TO
| deliver the steel for our bridges, there
| is no knowing how many Of US VIII die
| of old age. Orders which We're placed
| for delivery last spring have apparent
| ~ not been touched yet and there is no
| knowing when they will be. The situa-
ton was laid before Senator Clark re-
Gently with the result that he was
| Wiling to go to the great expense OF
pu. .ng in concrete bridges rather than
wait for the steel.
CONCRETE ALL THE RAGE.
concrete IA getting to be all the rage
I'm building railroads nowadays, IL
good lob Is made a concrete bridge vii
last for ever. Steel bridges always have
10 be looked after after they have been
put UP: they also have to be painted a
stated intervals. With concrete whci
the bridge Is once up there II VII
stand for ages. or course such an un
dertaking as Is proposed by Senator
clark Is a very nice piece OF work A
with a rope, its strength lies In IT.
| weakest part, so with concrete. Tests
of the cement have 10 be made con
stantly so as TO get the affair uniform
and drunken foreman may ruin
million dollar structure In few min
utes bv carelessness. When the bridge
is put up uniformly, however, II is
essentially as though the WHOLE affail
were made out Of one piece OF rock
| Concrete is the coming factor In the
building of railroads. Why In Los An
| geles today they are erecting a smoke
| stock 200 feet in height out Of solid
concrete. We are getting back to first
principles for the Egyptians undoubt'
| eddy made some Of their huge obellsks
out OF artificial stone, at least so some
scientists tell u.s."
WILL COST A FORTUNE.
Mr.. Mccartney was not prepared 70
state how much this proposed bridge
would cost. but he said II would reach
a price that would be staggering He
expressed himself to the effect that the
plan was perfectly feasible and that II
would be carried out as planned.
II this bridge Is built II will undoubt.
edly give the San Pedro more free ad.
vertlsing than can at this time be es-
| tmated