The Owensboro Messenger from Owensboro, Kentucky • 11

Section Two Local News, Society and Amusements Section Two Messenger and Inquirer Features Nation's Best SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR Editorial Boom Pbone 301 OWENSBORO, KY.t SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1939. Business Office Pbon 300 No. 253 Livermore And Rockport Bridges Over Green River To Be Completed By Spring Messenger photos by JohnW. Potter fiujL. i Hff 1 1 ii ii hi i-noormt iijiiiv- -nil Turn --1 "ririwn -A: .1 1 1 fiC.it$Ky?i 'Kj "til ill i ttP-ftuM Vhen a concrete road bed has been poured over what is now only a skeleton cf iron, this will have become a part of U.

S. Highway 62 at Rockport. The work of placing the steel in the superstructure is progressing rapidly. TAs approach on the Ohio county side of Green river at Rockport is practically completed except for the con-crete road. The bridge towers high above the river, with the low steel elevation 35 feet above the crest of the January, 1937, flood.

Massiveness is indicated in this picture of the Ohio county side river pier and the superstructure of the Rockport bridge as they appeared during this stage of building. Framework of the form into which concrete was poured to make the pier was being removed, when the picture was made from mid-stream. Digging was in progress for the foundation of the river pier on the opposite side of the stream. iv. v1 mot or tk -vr-- Green river, by spring, will havet its third and fourth highway bridges in this section completed, and faster and more modern means of travel over State Highway 75 and over U.

S. Highway 62 will be afforded the motorists who traverse them. Both are being built by the Public Works administration and the Kentucky Department of Highways. L. B.

Strandberg Son of Chicago, is working on the substructure of the Livermore span, with that part of the contract calling for an expenditure of $120,000. The Bethlehem Steel of Pittsburgh, has the superstructure contract and is expected to begin its work in about one month. On the Rockport bridge, Spencer Ross, of Detroit, is completing the substructure at a contract price of $156,102, while the Bethlehem Steel Co. is going along rapidly with the superstructure, the contract price on which is $204,426.97. The substructure here is to be completed in about two months.

U. S. Highway 62 isttn important through route in Kentucky, stretching over 399.7 miles from Maysville to Wickliffe. State Highway 75 starts at Qwcnsboro and passes through Daviess and McLean counties and on into Muhlenberg where it comes to a junction with State Highway 81 at South Carrollton. SfeSJ WrJSWte.

1 r. i 1 7 xrr-i-j f. Tic substructure is an important part of any bridge, and must be correct in every detail before the superstructure may be erected on it. This is the substructure on the Muhlenberg county side of the Rockport bridge. A distance of more than 300 feet separated camera and pier on the opposite side of Green river at Rockport where this picture was made.

The main river span of the bridge is 300 feet long; the entire bridge is 1,840 feet in length. ill Sri ft L- 1 Jiu" If Vrv3 hm i S3-' war i4 .1 I Ml- I ne puinL i rum icmcn inis picture was maae was ine Xrpoint of Ohio county which separates Green river and Rough river at Livermore. The span crosses Ohio county before again vnteriTig. McLeans Soon steel wilt be arriving at Livermore for erection of the superstructure as it is now at Rockport. The steel comes from Pittsburgh by barge and was being unloaded on the Muhlenberg side of the Rockport span in this photograph.

The steel which forms a coffer dam at the bottom of the picture is at the location of a river pier, These land piers for the Livermore bridge should soon be ready for the superstructure contractor to begin work of putting the steel, which will give the span Us massive appearance, in place. N' it.