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Work on Abutments - High Bridge Rising Very Rapidly 1901

FENGLER, DUBUQUE, ST PAUL

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 2/11/2017 at 11:53:42

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Oct. 30, 1901

AT EAGLE POINT
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MANY MEN EMPLOYED ON NEW
BRIDGE, THE LIME KILN AND
BOAT YARD
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Work on Abutments on the High
Bridge Rising Very Rapidly
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There is a hum of activity about Eagle Point, which makes that spot a busy place these days. At the ways of the Diamond Jo Boat Company a large force of men are employed. They are at work putting in heavy oak planks in the hull of the big steamer, Dubuque, which is on the dry docks. As soon as this work is completed the steamer St. Paul which is now anchored down in the ice harbor will be taken up to Eagle Point where she will be pulled up on the dry docks. The work of putting on an entirely new hull and making other improvements will be carried out, which will keep a force of men at work all winter. The work on the St. Paul will make that packet as good as a new boat.

The Fengler Lime Works is a busy place right now. They are loading and shipping out several car loads of lime every day. A force of men are also keep busy operating the rock crushing machine used in connection with the lime kilns. The machine prepares the rock in a condensed form for the kiln.

The stone yard at the river bank where the Iowa end of the high bridge will land is also a busy place. The pier near the Iowa shore is now up twenty feet out of the water. A large force of stonemason are at work preparing stone for the piers and abutments, and a large number of teamsters are kept busy hauling heavy stone to the yard. Nearly fifty men are also employed over on the Wisconsin shore on the tressle work which is now beginning to loom up into plain sight from this side. This part of the bridge will cover dry land most of the time, but when water is high the islands now traversed by this tressle work will be under water. If this fine weather continues it will not be long before the contractors will be ready for the iron work, and a force of men will be kept busy all winter on the big structure


 

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