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Show World's Highest Bridge. The highest bridge in the world is in France and has been opened recently. It is the Fades railway viaduct, which is to carry the Paris main line between be-tween Montlucan and Clermont-Ferrand over the Siouls gorge. The viaduct, via-duct, which is situated between St. Priest Sauret and Aneizes-St. Georges, rise3 to a height of nearly 430 feet above the level of the valley.. French journals state that it is some fifteen feet higher than the Gokteek bridge, in the Shan hill of Burma. The new bridge is a continuous steel girder structure and ' is supported on two enormous rectangular piers of masonry over 300 feet high, which in turn rest on bates nearly seventy feet high. The 43,000 cubic yards of masonry ma-sonry upon which . the bridge is supported sup-ported are founded on solid rock. The center span between the two piers is 470 feet long and is flanked by two spans 380 feet in length. The C2ni2r span was construceed in sections some twenty to twenty-five feet long, which were built out section by section from each pier until the two arms met and were joined. The work, which was begun in October, Octo-ber, 1901, and has cost $300,000, was delayed by the subsidence oi the rock foundation of one of the abutments, the designs of which had ultimately to be modified. This modification delayed work on the superstructure for several years. No lives have been lost during the construction. Chicago Tribune. |