Show bono U N n J af Y S T 1 im tl 0 OT I 1 a n 1 9 a AND AND edme ry new N ew bridge spells for adjacent towns an and d the two 1 wo counties below is a reproduction from a photograph of the new state bridge at green r located just above the railroad bridge of the denver and rio geande dedic dedication services were held n of last week and the largest crowd crow the town of green has er seen Ws there to take part in the jollification and the big barbs barbecue cue the tile litter being held on the elgin side below is ii a brief description of the bridge the structure ia is of three steel I 1 spans each one hundred and sixt sixty two feet in length with a space of two and one half feet between the spans making ita its total length four hundred and ninety one feet aside from its approaches s the west end md approach constructed of trestle work la is lighty six feet in length the cast ap trestle is f fifty seven feet in length A dirt f ill iradj up to the west approach for a distance of one hundred and five feet and contains rubout hundred yards f gracd the east approach fill is 13 a much shorter one containing five hundred yards of gravel the flooring of the bridge provides an eighteen foot ro roadway aday the bottom cord being five feet above the highest watermark ever eer recorded the oc overhead clearance i 14 about thirteen feet the spans are of the camel back pattern the highest in ter mediate post being twentythree twenty three falt in height while the shortest posts are eighteen feet high the design of the spans is 13 artistic although strength is the main feature the bridge debts upon tubular steel piers filled with concrete rem rein forca with mith heavy railroad steel the two west end piers being forty two inches in diameter and rising thirty five feet above their foundation which is 13 in slate shale the four river piers are each sixty inches in diameter and rise about thirty feet above their foundations the east end piers are forty two inches in diameter and rise tw twenty nty five feet ft 4 11 II of the piers are placed one foot into the shale bedrock bedr oci cr al almost most a carload of cement or about five carloads of concrete was as used in their tion an expansion roller is placed at the cast east end of each cach span to provide for the contraction and expansion I 1 T occasioned by extreme of heat and cold the floor is supported by steel beams on which rest ten three by fourteen inch joints twenty feet in length covered with two by fours laul laid edgewise edse and spiked together being also spiked firmly to the joists foists NEW STATE AND COUNTY BRIDGE dedicated by emery and grand county officials and citizens last week ai L LOOKING OKING EAST TO ELGIN FROM GREEN n E N RIVER T SIDE |