The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-07-23
Work Structure Will Begin as Soon as Possible After
Hearing Before Board at ST. Louis Thursday.

The right OF way for the line from
the Kentucky end of the Metropolis
bridge to Paducah has been secured.
and. it Is understood. the Louisville
q Nashville has acquired the fran
chise of the Paducah Northern for a
Belt line around Paducah. giving the
Burlington and Nashville, Chatta-
nooga & st. Louis access to all the
manufacturing sites of the city and
environs.
On top of this information comes
the positive statement from the same
source that the Illinois Central has
secured the right to use the bridge
when completed. This is significant,
because it is known that the Cairo
bridge. which has a single track and
long approaches, is over-crowded
with traffic. and II is believed the
solid trains from the Lakes to the
Gulf .will come this way over the
Carbondale division via Paducah and
Fulton to Memphis. instead of via
Cairo.
This arrangement with the Nash
vile. Chattanooga G st. Louis and
TO the south, and possibly the Cotton
Belt. will give Paducah exceptional
facilities 70 reaching all the big mar
kets Being the railroad point near
ast the mouths Of the Tennessee and
CUMBERLAND river and the biggest
ailroad center below Louisville on
he Ohio. Paducah will have an
enormous advantage in the way OF
heap access 10 deposits OF raw ma
erial and ready access to the big
market centers with effective water
to keep down rates.
II will require three years to build
he bridge: hut just as soon as the
.oard Of engineers gives its sanction
o the plans and the site. the roads
viii commence work on the sp-
and assemble material for
he spans and piers. The present
tage Of the river would preclude
perations. anyway. so no time is be
ng lost Work will start this fall.
Mr. FicRes said Metropolis would
end a delegation of about go people
Interested in the question. They
re in no way connected with the
but are pulling for the site.
hey will leave Monday for st. Louis.
'aducah will send a small crowd in
luding Saunders A Fowler, state
treasurer Ed Farley. County Judge
.lben Barley and a number of river
masters and pilots Cairo. H.. is in
crested as well and a large number
II rivermen there will be present at
he meeting.
The Hearing.
A second hearing to be conducted
iefore United States engineers in st.
.ouis for the purpose of determining
ne width of the main span Of the
burlington railroad bridge across the
)hio al Metropolis. will be held
tuesday morning and will be attend
d By interested parties from Padu-
all and Metropolis and Cairo.
Clark r. Fictes. of Chicago. who
as charge of che bridge construction
nd lines at Metropolis, arrived in
last night with Mr. Willis
Ward. on his way to St Louis 10 at
end the meeting. They left this
morning. They left this morning.
Engineer B!ckes said to a reporter
or The Evening sun:
"The bridge location has prac-
ically been settled. although it has
rot yet been officially declared by
he war department. I have been In
Metropolis for some time and we are
holding up the work on the bridge
NTH the length of the main span
las been determined officially. We
ave been unable to draw UP the
,lans and the purpose Of the meeting
n st. Louis will be to fix the length
IF the span definitely"
When the plans were first drawn
hey gave the main span at $50 feet,
t-this was strongly protested by
liver men.