. Public works . o trips a day, carrying about36 yards. This is about 60 miles long and the best singlestretch of improved highway in St. Louis county. It con-nects Duluth direct with Eveleth and the range towns. Itwas built on a bond issue in 1896 and has already probablycost the county close to $200,000. A line county highwaybridge, shown in the illustration, has just been completed inthe third commissioners district. It spans a ravine overKeenes Creek on the Getchell road. The bridge is of re-inforced concrete construction and was built at a cost of$3,200. In the illustration is also shown
. Public works . o trips a day, carrying about36 yards. This is about 60 miles long and the best singlestretch of improved highway in St. Louis county. It con-nects Duluth direct with Eveleth and the range towns. Itwas built on a bond issue in 1896 and has already probablycost the county close to $200,000. A line county highwaybridge, shown in the illustration, has just been completed inthe third commissioners district. It spans a ravine overKeenes Creek on the Getchell road. The bridge is of re-inforced concrete construction and was built at a cost of$3,200. In the illustration is also shown the new tool housein Commissioner Swanstroms district. Work on $5,000,000 Parkway. New York, N. Y.—With more than $3,000,000 alreadypaid for lands, the Grand Boulevard, now in course of con-struction from the Bronx to Valhalla, a distance of fifteenmiles, will, it is claimed, when completed, be one of thefinest avenues for public use in the United States. TheBronx Parkway Commission, which has the work in hand,. Coui-tesy Duluth (Minn.) Herald. AT WORK ON COUNTY ROADS NEAR DULUTH 778 MUNICIPAL JOURNAL \oL. XXXVII, No. 22 already is filing sections of the final maps with the CountyClerk and Registers offices in Bronx and Westchestercounties, and the final topographical maps of the reserva-tion will be filed within the next few months. In thework alreadj- finished by the commission hundreds ofacres of land have been cleared of unsightly accumulationsof rubbish, dead trees and underbrush. The Bronx River,which has been the dumping ground for years of all sortsof refuse, has received a preliminary cleaning. In addi-tion to the preliminary cleaning of the river the com-mission has sold very nearly all the buildings it hasacquired since it began to purchase lands and these arebeing removed from the reservation. New Concrete Bridge for Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne, Ind.—A new bridge, which is to be on theLincoln highway route, is to be built over the St. MarysRiver. The structure will c
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