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Show Pacific Roads Want to Bridge the Strait Director Xruttsehnitt Appeals to Secretary Sec-retary To. ft From Report of District Engineer. WASinNfJTi iN". Max 4,-Sorn tnn' Taft Ml called on today by .lutltiM Krutt-?chnltt. Krutt-?chnltt. director of maintenance and operation oper-ation of all tho Ilarrlman linos. In relation rela-tion to tho application of the railroads to bridge Carqulnez strait i-onnerting Kan Jtian bay with San Francisco bay This project has oxeltod deep Intereat on th 1'ar III.: 1. ..t.sl Tin dlstrlet onglneer has reported to the W.ir department adversely on It. Protests Against Action. Mr. Kruttachntlt told Secretary Taft that he represented rflreo railroad systems, sys-tems, the t'ontrnl Pacific, the Union Pacific Paci-fic and the Southern Pacific He tllel a protest against the action of, the dlstrlat ensrineer. which was tak n on tin- ground that tho proposed bridge would Interfere with navigation Ho said that the suspension sus-pension bridge, with a lum-foot span s tch :i-s was demanded by the city of San Francisco and the engineer, would cost at Past yiO.Of.Hjii. while the draw bridge proposed by the railroads, with two lf-foot lf-foot passages on olth'-r side of the een-tral een-tral draw, could be constructed for about 11,000,000 Would Save an Hour's Time. The roads would save an hour's time on trains running t Ogden and Oregon it was admitted, he said, that tho drawbridge draw-bridge would m.t interfere with steamship navigation but only with Hie small schooners which cany hay. gravel and agricultural products to San Francisco, and which would be unable to sU-m th" swift current likely to be caused by the draw-bridge at certain stages of the tide To mert this objection the railroad companies com-panies offer to maintain a tug to tow tin m through the draw free of charge. Taft Will Take It Up. Secretary Taft will take this matter up with Gen! Mackenzie. . tho chief of on-gineere, on-gineere, at the Bret opportunity. |