Show BRIDGE ORiCE BOO BOOM A AON ON WEST VEST COAS COAST Demand For Por Better and Shorter Highways Is Cause SA SAY SAN FRANCISCO Feb 15 15 Dy By Tho Associated Dee resa rc ress-D ress s mand for better belter and shorter high high- highways highways ways high ways attributable to tho the automo automo- automobile automobile automobile bile has ha given gl an Impetus to bridge building In the tho west as elsewhere cl that Is rapidly overcoming natural barriers to direct travel The experience of stage stage-coa stage coach h days Is In a a measure being bring repeated re- re re repeated on an enlarged scale cale with reference to financing In that Id I'd- ate capital attracted by po i is not tUne Inc flinch flinch- flinching profits from from rom toll lolls toll Ing from substantial bridge In In- In Investments investments vestments rim PILE A PILI CATION- CATION Sixteen Sixteen applications have havo ben been mo d with tho board boord of ot or ors ore of o San an Francisco for permia- permia permission slon sion to bull build toll bridges i or com com- combination combination combination brIdge and ond subways ILYS hr- hr tween hr-tween tween this till city and the Oakland side elde Ide Estimates ranee range up liP to 75 75 but choice of oC a site alto hinges binges upon getting permission from the war department for a II crossing north of Hunters Hunter's point New v bridges on tho the Pacific coast Include Carquinez straits traits toll bridge at Crockett Cal costing costing- length approximately 1 mill mile clearance 13 5 feet Ceet extreme height feet teet Dumbarton toll loll bridge near Rod nol wood RoI-wood wood City Cal Cat crossing leg lee San Francisco bay length approximately approximately II a a mile with approaches APproach's arive five milts miles long over marsh land cost clearance 35 feet feel t Antioch toll bridge cost oo- oo total length feet spans spans San Joaquin river California ix Ji TOO bridge Portland Ore length 2876 2376 2 76 feet cost COt pans opens Columbia river clearance p pI feet I Pacific Highway bridge Tacoma length 2833 2 33 feet feet crosses crosses lup lup lul river All of these bridges have been boen completed except tho one one which Is scheduled to bo ho fin fin- finIshed finIshed fin finished May 1 The Dumbarton Dumbarton and Antioch are bridges In tn which the central spann sp n are raised perpendicularly by PO pow power er hoists |