The CB&Q Metropolis Railroad Bridge part 10

The Paducah Evening Sun
Wednesday, July 27, 1910


Rivermen Will Select Place Of The Bridge Piers

Engineers Approve Site and Adopt Length of Span at St. Louis Meeting

Metropolis People Jubilant Over Result.

Paducah Men Have Returned

To the dictation of towboat pilots and owners was left the location of the piers for the main channel span for the Burlington railroad bridge at Metropolis yesterday by the government board of engineers at St. Louis. The bridge site and width of the span is definite.

This encouraging news was brought home today by Capt. Saunders A Fowler, secretary of the Commercial Club, who returned this morning with County Judge Alben Barkley and State Treasurer Ed Farley from St. Louis after attending the meeting. Mr. Fowler said the result of the meeting is that the board concurred in the action of the engineers at Cincinnati on June 9 in the bridge's location. The span for the main channel will be 700 feet.

The bridge is to be located 1,800 or 2,000 feet below the ferry landing at Metropolis. This is the most feasible site for the foundation and the approaches. The channel span will be 700 feet in the clear at low water mark and the main channel span 600 feet, located in the river. The best position for the piers has been left to the judgment of the rivermen.

Capt. Fowler said a large number of Metropolis people attended the meeting and were jubilant over the result. He said they expressed a warm appreciation to the river interests at Paducah for the support given them in their contentions for the bridge.

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