Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — Another Big Bridge in Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Another Big Bridge in Rensselaer.

The County Commissioners, at a special session last Friday, contracted with the Lafayette Bridge Company for the removal and remodeling of the old iron bridge, east of the Stockfarm, and its erection over the Iroquois, on Kannal street, at the Creamery.. The abutments are to be of Bedford stone, and are to be built for SBOS. The bridge is to be remodeled to make its roadway 16 feet wide, its present width being 14 feet. These changes in the bridge and its removal to the creamery, are to riost $695; the total cost of abutments and removal being SISOO. The Commissioners also contracted with John Hack, of Lowell for another wooden pile bridge, over the Iroquois river, in Union Tp., on the -road running along the south line of Bection24,townßtrip3o,range6.lt .8 to be 100 feet long, ,16 feet roadway and to cost $3.50 per lineal foot