The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-02-25
MetropoHs Bridge to b, Built Witt,
Up River City as Big Raj.
roacd Center.
/ Big BOOM is EXPECTED
In Sister Town Such as Will be
Realized in Cairo With New
Lcyec System.

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river is stirred over the announce
ment made there Saturday afternoon
that the new bridge TO Gross from
Metropolis to the Kentucky shore
is to be built in the spring and that
the shops and yards OF the four
joint roads who will use the struc-
ture will be located there. 1t means
as much to the future df Paducah
as does the bond issue, and the fol-
lowing from the Paducah News
Democrat OF Sunday will be OF in.
terest here;
The first announcement, made
with authority and without reserve,
giving the fun details and the ap-
proximate dates OF the tremendous
railroad development at Paducah,
was made yesterday by Superintend-
ent w. j. Hills, of the ~, G. IL st.
L., on the authority OF President
Milton II. Smith. of the Louisville
& Nashville. Nj. Hills confirmed
tho news stories published hereto
fore BY the Ncws-D Democrat, and set
tied for all time the discussion Of
final plans. Weather conditions are
all that delay immediate construc-
tion work.
A four and half million dollar
bridge, vast yards at Paducah, Joint
shops and Union station downtown
arc contemplated by the roads. The
big freight and passenger stations
will be located at Eleventh and
Broadway, though this statement
will not be confirmed by railroad
officials. 1t comes from such high
official source, however, that Padu-
cans may accept II as settled fact
Plans have been drawn, submitted
and approved for the Union Depot at
that point
The Details.
The entire cost VIII be four ami
million dollars and three
million more for shops and Yards
here.
The holding company for the
bridge is the Paducah a. Illinois
Railr0d company, organized by the
Louisville & Nashville in it's execu-
i've office at louisville.
The participating roads. ara the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. the
chicago a. Eastern Illinois, the Big
Four, the Illinois Central and the
Nashville, Chattanooga e. st. Louis.
fhe Frisco system is expected to
oin the company later after build
ng its connection from Joppa.
Work on the bridge will be starr
ID as soon as the present rise in the
liver recedes.
Construction work will be begun
IN both the Illinois and the Ken
ucky side simultaneously, and cas-
ions for the piers will be sunk from
10Th shores.
This work will be followed this
pring by actual construction work
N the double-tracked line built bv
he N. c. & st. l.. from Paducah TO
he bridge site. and rails will be |
aid on this connection as soon as
,ossible, in order to get the bridge
from southern and eastern
Mills to the site via the Nashville,
& st. Louis.
Permission to construct the bridge
vas given by the war department OF
he United States more than a year
,go. The railroad companies, how
ever, were compelled to draw the
plans SO as to place the tracks fifty.
TWO feet above the Ohio rivers hica
water mark. This will demand an
OF a much larger amount
than first contemplated. as the ap-
proaches on both sides Of the Ohio
must be extended further inland.
The bridge will be the third
largest railroad bridge in the world.
it viii not cost as much,
owing TO the length Of the ap-
it will fall little short of
the bridge over the Ohio at Cairo