Show DANGEROUS negligence without any intention to poach on the preserves of the board of county commissioners we wish to make a suggestion which might be the means of saving life and of keeping money in the county treasury the river bridge between richfield and monroe is in a deplorably dilapidated delapi dated condition and needs overhauling the west end of the structure is 13 askew askew and the water in the river seems to have a peculiar attraction for the south side of the first span here the bridge has settled perhaps six inches which causes a severe strain on the tha coupling poles of the vehicles that travel b between munroe monroe and richfield viewing the matter in this light the structure does not reflect credit on an enterprising and progressive county but even this might bo be tolerated were it not for the fact that the bridge is 13 dangerous it ought to bo be condemned the lightest kind of vehicle causes the bridge to tremble like the tha proverbial aspen leaf and it would seem that the men who cross the bridge with heavy wagons aro are taking their lives in their own hands bands something So ought to be done to improve the condition of this bridge and it ought to be done immediately doubtless the commissioners are trying to conserve the financial interests of the county by A refusing to expend money on the bridge at the present time it may be that they are thinking ot abolishing the bridge by constructing ting the tha proposed direct road be the two towns a road which w will ill take tho the traveler through on one of tho the most moat fertile and best beat farming districts in intha but does doca it pay to try to economize in auch matters an accident raight happen on thi this bridge which result in the loks lobs of life and which would cost four times as much as the price of one of the lest best modern steel bridges |