History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . .-4-. %fe*. ^^•. ^,J//MiAXryx AUGUSTA HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTV. 795 whole river bottom was covered with dense timber and fallentrees; and numerous sloughs and sand-bars rendered the construc-tion of a road across and a landino^ place at the sliore, a matter ofgreat difficulty. Tiiese were gradually made to disappear, at greatlabor and cost; and when the bridge was built and the ferry sus-pended, a crooked dyke was left, which has since been taken andimproved by the bridge company,
History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . .-4-. %fe*. ^^•. ^,J//MiAXryx AUGUSTA HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTV. 795 whole river bottom was covered with dense timber and fallentrees; and numerous sloughs and sand-bars rendered the construc-tion of a road across and a landino^ place at the sliore, a matter ofgreat difficulty. Tiiese were gradually made to disappear, at greatlabor and cost; and when the bridge was built and the ferry sus-pended, a crooked dyke was left, which has since been taken andimproved by the bridge company, as an approach to the bridge. THE KEOKUK AND HAMILTON BRIDGE. A railroad and wagon bridge was built under a charter from theStates of Illinois and Iowa, ratified by Congress, and was openedto the public in June, 1S71. It is constructed entirely of iron,excepting the road bed, which is of heavy-sawed white-oak was about two years in building, delayed at several differenttimes by ice and high water. Its cost was one million and fivethousand dollars ($1,005,000). It is two thousand one hundredand n
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