Show BRIDGE STRAITS NEAR BEN CiA I Southern Pacific P Has Great Plan for Another Span Over Bay i With WiLl the completion of C the long hong Dumbarton Du cutoff bridge ge across the tho lower end ond of the bay ba of ofSan o ofSan San Sau Francisco the Southern Pacific Is la now Investigating the matter of oC a fill III and antI a n steel teel 1 bridge with draw across the straits between Port Costa and ia This is not a new project project for it was studied by b tho the late C CP CP CP P for years rears and nn much time and omney omne were spent In iii surveys soundings and specifications Every passenger train on the Ogden O den route has to be placed d on the mammoth for fer ferry forry ry boat Solano tho the second largest In iii Inthe Inthe the world by b the way wa and the short distance of one mile between the two stations consumes from twenty to thirty minutes The Tho bay above this point Is not of such Importance to navigation that a suitable draw bridge would rould not serve sere all nh purposes and the tho government would be le justified In granting the tho Southern Pacific per permission permission permission mission to bridge the straits The chief obstacle heretofore has been the tUe depth of the water but owing to the success of o the cutoff It II ItIs itIs is thought that the deepest d portion could be bridged by hy the steel canti cantilever cantilever lever leer type of bridge ge with the draw In Inthe Inthe inthe the shallower portion Ships of light draft for river traffic are arc the only ones that go above Port Costa Cas tn Tho The company Is at nt present merely investigating im the project and anti no news can ca c be ev given gon n as to the tile possibility of ot actually building the bridge but hut it itis itIs itis is b h by far one of ol tho the moat most interesting moves being planned by the lie Southern I Pacific Pad I ic r |