Coalville Times | 1897-10-01 | Page 2 | A Home Made Suspension Bridges

A llonn Made eutprlow llrl1t Necessity Is I sold to be the mother of Invention and certainly or rsslJent of Kansas hail proven this beyond question ques-tion lila houio was on one side of the river and Ibo achoolhouse wad on the other When the water was high tho youngsters wore obllgd 10 I remain nt home Tho man attempted to remedy this evil and succeeded In I building n suspension bridge Ihnt answered an-swered every purpose Ho anchored I the ends of strong fence wire to piers 1 mado of good Izat oak lots lie then fastened strips of oa1 three feet long to the wire and united the strandt so I that they could l not work loose l Then i plank walk two feet wide was putdown put-down There were sides consisting of I a network of woven wire as a meamnt of safety The bridge Is slity fort above the water and about two hundred I hun-dred foot long