A LONG BRIDGE.
ROADWAY ACROSS THE SEA. A great bridge, over two miles long, joining the island on which the City of Galveston is built, in • me Gulf of Mexico, with the mainland of Texas., has been completed! and is now open for traffic. Its total length is 10,685 ft, and its width 63 ft and 'it has, in addition to a fine roadway for motor traffic, tracks for steam and electric railways, It is supported on 107 arches of steel and concrete, and cost nearly a million pounds to erect. The greatest engineering skill has been exercised to make the bridge absolutely safe against the fierce storms that assail this region from time to time, and every arch is sup. ported on a .foundation 40ft below the vrater. To enable ocean-going steamers to enter Galveston Bay from the Gulf of Mexico, a g-iant lift-bridge is fitted at one end of the causeway, which can be opened or closed by the touch of a lev®r. {The bridge is one of the finest and longest in the world.
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Franklin Times, Volume 10, Issue 798, 9 January 1923, Page 7
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177A LONG BRIDGE. Franklin Times, Volume 10, Issue 798, 9 January 1923, Page 7
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