Millard County Chronicle | 1947-10-23 | Page 2 | Boy Helped Solve Problem of Bridging Niagara Falls

Boy Helped Solve Problem Of or Bridging Brid Niagara Falls When the first bridge over Niagara Niagara Niagara Ni Ni- agara Falls was planned in 1848 the Mie problem of getting a cable from the American to the Canadian an side was solved by offering 5 to the first person who could make a kite carry a string across the foot chasm After this had been accomplished accomplish accomplish- ed by a boy the string was used to pull over a small steel cable which for several years enabled persons to go back and forth two at a time in a little wire basket The original steel suspension bridge thrown across the river just below the American falls had aspan a l span of feet and was long considered considered considered con con- to be a feat of engineering