Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — BRIDGE BEING REPLACED. [ARTICLE]

BRIDGE BEING REPLACED.

Breakdowns continue to occur on the dredge and detained the bridge men, who were very anxious to replace the Washington street bridge. They are, now going ahead as fast as they can and by Monday it will probably be back in place. There were two points that were not quite dredged down to specifications, one some eight feet long and about seven inches high near where the water main crossed, and one above the bridge about the same size. But as the drills and all the drilling paraphernalia were out west of town and it would occasion considerable delay and much expense to blow out these high places now, it was decided to. go ahead with the dredge and take these little high places out later by band. The big dredge is now just in the rear of Glazebrook’s blacksmith shop, and as the excavation keeps getting more and more shallow as it goes west, it should make good headway to the end of the rock ledge here —some 150 to 200 feet west of the creamery bridge—if all is blasted deep enough and there are no serious breakdowns. •