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Show ABUTMENTS OF WEBER RIVER BRIDGE The board of city commissioners this morning referred the petition ol Zelms Stephens, asking the approval of pints and surveys of the Madison addition 10 the committee of ih-whole. ih-whole. Commissioner J. C. Nye reported that the contract for theVoncrete portion por-tion of a joint bridge across Weber river with the Sail Lake a- Ogder Railroad company had br-r-n executed Excavating for the abutments 0! the bridge rs processing rapldl and It will not be long before concrete workers will he on the job The abutments abut-ments will extend fourteen feet below be-low tho surface of the water of the river, where they will rest on pilea driven to grat depth The abut ments will reach a point forf feet ::boe the level of lb aier ;:u be from seven to eleven feet thlcK extending the width of the bridge The cost of the abutments will bp about $.",;100 and it is figured that th cost of th steel will be about SG.OOo more Propertj ownera have subscribed sub-scribed ?2,Uou The city will pay the balance. |