Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1913 — Steel Bridge Is Being Built Across River at Burks. [ARTICLE]

Steel Bridge Is Being Built Across River at Burks.

A good steel bridge is being built across the Iroquois ditch-at Burk’s, 4 Y a miles north of Rensselaer, and It is hoped that the troubles that have been almost continuous for so long a time will be solved permanently. The br’dge is being built by tlhe East St. Louis Bridge Co., which Is the company formerly known as the Attica Bridge Oo„ and which moved to East St. Louis recently. The men who are doing the work report that there is a vast amount of bridge business in Indiana now owing to the destructive floods ot March.