Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1901 — A Cantilever Bridge In Alaska. [ARTICLE]

A Cantilever Bridge In Alaska.

The White Pass and Yukon Kailway company has just finished a cantilever bridge over the White Pass canyon 850 feet in length, with a clear span of 240 feet, und 275 feet high above the bottom of the canyon in the middle. The everlasting ice had to bo quarried away for the supports of the bridge. When tested with the weight of a massive rotary snowplow and two engines for filed together, there was a total dmvnwaid deflection in the middle of the bridge of but five-eighths of an inch.