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Show Fifty-One Brldeea for B. & O. B. K. Baltimore, Jan. 23. One of the largest bridge contracts that has been awarded award-ed in many years has been let by the receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. In order to place the lines west of the Ohio river in proper shape to handle the heavy freight equipment that is being used east of the river the receivers found it necessary to rebuild re-build 51 bridges between Benwood, W. Va., and Chicago. That the structures might be rapidly pushed to completion comple-tion it was decided to divide the work among three companies. The Youngs-town Youngs-town Bridge Company of Youngstown will erect 31 bridges on the Central Ohio division between the Ohio river and Newark, Ohio; the Pencoyd Bridge Works was awarded the 11 bridges on the Lake Erie division, Newark to Sandusky, and the Edge Moor Bridge Company of Wilmington, Del., will erect the 9 bridges needed on the Chicago Chi-cago division. The total cost of these bridges is In the neighborhood of $300,-000 $300,-000 and it is expected that all will be in place by September. Nearly six thousand tons of steel will be needed for the structures. |