Show FOR foit WOODEN BRIDGES the timbered states stales of the west aavo every reason to encourage building more wooden bridges it is a well known bract that in many parts of the country wooden bridges have stood BO 50 to years there are places where here steel and moncrete on crete are proper materials but alne tenths of all bridges needed in my iny country can be built of wood douglas fir and yellow pine will nill arry more than steel one western county has a bridge rew buys all its lumler lumber in carloads I 1 I 1 and builds only wooden bridges the bridges are rooted roofed and paint id d and outlast steel bridges are ailt ot home products and with iome labor the time has come when western tates that issue bonds tor for bridge construction should insist on using I 1 i Ne vt estern stern material and keep money tat at home |