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Show fei mml Id mlSntO Cantilever Over Kusku-lana Kusku-lana River to be Crossed Cross-ed by Trains i Seattle Wash, Dec. 20 Rild??' builders and members of construction construc-tion gang working on t'ae Copper River I Northwestern railroad ek-brafed ek-brafed Christmas In Alaska by clinching clinch-ing the last rive'. In the great cantilever canti-lever bridge over the Kuskulana river. mils up the Copper river from Cordova. Cablegrams announcing the finishing of the task were received I to hy Trains wiil be running over the i I bridge by Ttiesdav and track lav ins on , ! the la-si fifty miles of tho Morgan- Guggenheim railway will he begun. ! The Kusknlana bridge, with its ap-! ap-! preaches. Is sou feet long. It consist J I of tv.o luO foot ppans and one 22.V i foot span. From the water to the rail I of the center span the dlsiar.ee Is 2'-" fect. Work on the bridge was begun in November, ! Tlie workmen encountered severe ! dlfrjciillles duo to the cold. At limes ' the temperature dropped to fifty do- j greeg below zero. i |