Show LARGEST OF ITS lIS KIND Giant Bridge to Span the Mississippi River Just Contracted For NEW YORK May 12 The The American American Ameri Amen can Bridge company has just cl closed sed a a. contract for tor the steel w work rk on the big Thebes bridge that is to be thrown across the Mississippi river between southern Illinois and Missouri 1 This bridge Is to be used by a group of ot railroads and will wUl be be one of the largest of Its kind In the country The contract Involves tons tons' of Structural structural tural steel An official of ot the United States Steel corporation today In speaking of ot the DeW new bridge plant that is to be built at Economy Pa said that Its iri erection erection erection tion had been made Imperative by the constantly increased demand for heavier heavier ier structural steel forms It will vIll bethe bethe be bethe the largest plant of the kind In the World and will be capable of producing heavier work than any plant now in existence The construction work would have begun some time ago go except except ex ex- for the rearrangement of f plans that was made necessary by the steel corporations corporation's s conversion scheme out of ot which will arise fresh capital available for this and other Improvements Improve Improve- ments |