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Title: Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Crofutt, George A
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The Overland Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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mount of $250,000. Also,Pcttawattomie county, Iowa, voted, undercertain conditions, aid to the amount of$205,000. This bridge is a notable structure (seeillustration), one-half mile in length, withthe approaches over one mile. It is located below the old depot, and op-posite that part of the city of Omahaknown as Train-Town, and has a singletrack. The bridge is known as a Posts Pat-ent. The hollow iron columns are 22 innumber, two forming a pier. These col-umns are made of cast iron one-and-three-fourths inches in thickness, ^% feet in di-ameter, 10 feet long, and weigh 8 tons each.They are bolted together air-tight, andsunk to the bed-rock of the river, in onecase, 82 feet below low-water. After these columns are seated on therock foundation, they are filled up twentyfeet with stone concrete, and from theconcrete to the bridge seat, they arefilled with regular masonry. Fromhigh-water mark to the bridge seat, thesecolumns measure 50 feet. The elevenspans are 250 feet in length, making
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MISSOURI RIVER BRIDGE—OMAHA IN THE DISTANCE. the iron part, between abutments, 2,750 feet.These columns were cast in Chicago,and delivered in the shape ot enormousrings, 10 feet in length. When they werebeing placed in position the workmenwould take two or more rings, join themtogether, place the column where it was tobe sunk, cover the top with an air-lock,then force the water from the column bypneumatic pressure, ranging from 10 to 35pounds per square inch. The workmendescend the columns by means of rope-ladders, and fill sand-buckets, which arehoisted through the air-lock by a pony-en-gine. The sand is then excavated abouttwo feet below the bottom of the column,the men come out through the air-lock, aleverage, from 100 to 300 tons, is applied,the pneumatic pressure is removed, andthe column sinks, from three inches to twoand one-half feet—in one instance, the col-umn steadily sank down 17 feet. When- ever the column sinks, the sand fills infrom 10 to 30 feet—in one instance,

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