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Show II SPLINTERS AND NAILS ON VIADUCT Although the railroad officials have promised the citj commission commis-sion that the viaduct across the tracks on Twenty-fourth street will be unproved by the placing of an asphalt surface t.. eliminate the nail and splinter m the planki covering the drive, the beginning of the work evidently is being long delayed. I Engineer Armstrong of the Oregon short Line has had plans prepared and such material ordered foi the strengthening of the bridge as is neceaatf) to carry the heavier load which will be placed upon the (structure, but the day when the viaduct will he other than a tire-puncturing drive seemi now to be as far away as it was this spring t anneries! west of the viaduct have requested that the improvements improve-ments be postponed during the rush period of the pea and tomato crops, but the work of bracing the elevated road could proceed at t his time to thai when the time arrives for laying the new surface there will be no great delav The viaduct todaj is an almost impassable bridge and will remain re-main an irritant to motorists so long as the splintered planks and countless uplifted nails are there to rip and destroy tires. |