The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-14
100000 on x Line for Improvements
will be Expended and Work
will be of Considerable
Magnitude.
BRIDGE TO COST 100000
Reconstruction of Bridge Across the
Des Moines River to be Expensive
Skunk River to be
Likewise Favored.

Several millions Of dollars will be
texpended this year by the Burlington
system for the improvement of the
;roadbed and the building or repair of
bridges and buildings along the line.
The appropriations made for the Keo
kuk and st. Louis line are most lib
eral An immense sum will be ex
pended in the immediate vicinity OF
Keokuk. A gang of laborers is now
engaged in laying s5-pound steel rails
J fifteen and twenty miles north of the
city, for which the sum of about s40,-
900 has been set aside. The Des
Moines river bridge is to be recon
structed and practically made new
structure that viii sustain the heav,
lest traffic that is hauled over line
of railway Material for the new
bridge is now being delivered The
4 improvement will cost about $4,000,
an appropriation for that amount hav-
ing been made. The Burlington man
agement has been most liberal in pro-
yiding for the Keokuk and st. Louis
railway The following indicates the
specific improvements TO be made and
the several appropriations therefore:
Twenty-Five thousand dollars has
been appropriated for labor and ma
terial used in laying eight miles of
track north of St Louis with 90-pound
rails.
Seventeen miles north of Keokuk
steel gang Is laying S5-pound rails.
For this work $4,000 was appropriate
ed.
stretch of track one and three
fourtns miles in length between West
Quincy and Dumsford is being laid
with 90-pound rails. This work will
cost something like $4,000
Down at Elsberry steel water
tank capable of holding 100000 gal
Ions will be constructed. The cost
will be $1,000
An appropriation of something like
$1,000 has been made to build sim
liar tank at Keokuk This tank will
hold 10000 gallons of water.
Just at present material is being
unloaded for a bridge over the Des
Moines river This structure will
cost something like s107, 900.
Skunk river, nine miles south OF
Burlington, will also be bridged at a
cost of about $1,000.
Just at present the Burlington is
fighting the encroachments of the
Missouri river near the Bellfountain
bridge If the road wins this fight
and it looks like it will, the great
bridge will be protected and thous.
ands of acres of fertile farm land
which is now threatened by the
stream will be saved More than
$4,000 will be spent for this work.
Something like $4,000 will be spent
in removing the wooden draws and
replacing them with concrete work
which will make these parts of the
road as firm as the solid ground The
boom at the bridge at Quincy is to be
rebuilt at a cost of something l..Ae
81 1000.
New deck Orders will be put in a
the Lost Creek bridge, near Burling
ton. Something like $1,000 will b,
required for this work This bridg.
has been washed out twice and the
structure will now be made SO stI<n,
that it will stand a tremendous prs;
sure.
The old wooden bridges along tn
line are rapidly giving place to cor
crete structures which will stand III
test of time. $4,000 win be put int
this kind of work, but it will be none
well spent
OF course. a great deal of none
has been appropriated for rollir
stock, buildings and other improv
ments too numerous to mention.