The Geary Booster (Geary, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1915 Page: 3 of 10
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THE NEW
The new bridge over the Sout;h
Canadian river between Geary
Geary and Bridgeport has been
completed and is now open
to travel. This bridge is one of
the beat piling bridges ever built
in the state. It is a wood pile
bridge 640 feet long, 4 pile to
the bent, driven 25 feet, unless
hard formation was struck be-
fore they got to that depth; all
piling was diiven to solid form-
ation with an 1800 pound ham-
mer, the last foot of which took
on an average of from 8 to 10
blows to a foot on a 20 to 24 foot
drop. The caps are 8x16 inch
pine, drift bolted into the piles
with | inch drift-bolts 24 inches
long. The stringers are 5 lines
of 8x16 inch stringers 28 and 30
feet long, bolted through (the
^aps with washers and nuts, with
two lines of 2x4 bridging at each
bent or span. The flooring is
three inch pine nailed on each |
edge, 5 joists to each plank. The j
"hand rails are four lines of 2x6.
nailed to 3x4 posts, bolted to the |
outside stringers every 7 feetj
with 4x4 braces bolted at each'
end and nailed fast;. This bridge
has a 14 foot roadway and is 16
. foot above water line. It was
contracted for on Oct. 8, 1914,
and built by Blaine and Caddo
counties, jointly; was finished
Dec. 19, 1914. Contract price
$6,000. A great many people do
not appreciate what this bridge
means to this part of Oklahoma.
COMPLETED AND READY FOR USE
the following extracts from a
letter received on January 8th, wm.
from Walters. Gilbert, secretary run over and
of the State Department of High-\ your boosters
will use the story, and several | and Bridgeport boosters.
hundred will I will try and • All of the necessary culverts
ways, throws some light
consult
at a very
with
early
date, and look the situation over.
on the new highway between
Geary and the bridge haW> been
built of concrete, and all of them
have been built with the excep-
tion of one which will be built on
the new road that will be; opened
on the half section line just north
of the bridge. The county is
contemplating upon purchasing
the old road, along the river
bank, for use until the half sec-
tion line is opened up and the
new road built. Some time, in
the very near future, the hills
on each side of the new culverts
on the new road between Geary
river, will be pulled down
WRIGHT'S CONDENSED
SMOKE
Call in and get a sample of Wright's Condens
ed omoke and a book of directions for saltincr the^ .
ham* harrm Ari^A U f r i theand river, will be pulled down
nams, bacon, dried beet, sausage, tongue, fish or and the ro d made practically
any kind of meat that is to be smoked — A n v ile™ * • • .
fKof ie 1 J L 1 l i i This work is in the hands of
meat tnat is to be smoked should be properly the local highway association,
salted and this little book may be of service to vou Thfre wi,",have t0 be consider-
j ««= Juu able work done and money spent
on the north approach to the
bridge as the approach is very
steep, at present, and the turn
very short. Great praise is due
the men who have been behind
this work. They have worked
| against obstacles, that at times
| seemed impossible to overcome;
| as fast as one was met and over-
come another bobbed up in its
stead, but they gritted their
teeth, took another firm hold,
and at last came out victorious
I- A. HOLMES 8c CO.
PERFECT DRUfi STORE SERVICE s
subject and should arouse our[ 1 fully expect a tremendu-
people to a completion of che \ ous travel in Oklahoma this year
road: Before going any farther jit will be scattered throughout
permit me to congratulate all the year with the heaviest part Ian(* at 'ast came out victorious
who in any manner assisted in ! of it in the late summer or early!and as Walter Gilbert says in his
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fall September and October.
'adens
Meat _
Market
the movement of building the
bridge over the South Canadian j The return travel from San i
river It means thousands of j Francisco; they will all come via j
d o 11 a r s to Geary, Bridgeport1 that bridge.
letter "removed the biggest black
eye that touring has had in this
state." As a parting word we
wish
uimgc. | ■■ —•• to say; When the call
and that section and to the j The present agitation for better!comes to ^elP or furnish a little
"V" money to complete our section
of the road, let us all act like the
THRESH and Cured Meats
* Lard, Fish, Oyster, Sour
and Sweet Pickles—We keep
only the choicest of meats and
codiments Your trade is al-
ways appreciated Tiy us.
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country at large ! pride myself | army facilities means greater
that I am about the best author- j activity in army circles and you
ity on routes in thisstate. I have can expect from time to time to
ftudied them to every part of thesee the bridge used for the trans-
United States and have routed j portation of troops from Ft Sill
more people, traveling by road,' to Ft: Riley, and vice-versa"
than any man in the state | You cannot imagine how much
1 am lor lhat bridge of in dead earnest both Col. Sujrirs
yours. It removes the biggest and I are in this road business
black-eye that touring has had and how our hearts are set on
in this state. It now makes seeing these roads improved and
assured, so far as Oklahoma is made realities. We care not who
concerned, a direct route to San gets the credit or how it is done
Francisco with only one ferry so long as it is done, and we are1
and that a thousand miles away, ready to help in any possible!
It shortens the route from the manner. Among some of my
Atlantic to the Pacific hundreds plans for''Seeing America First"
of miles and assures a route ex- is a map showing the transoon
elusive of the great Utah Plains tinentaf route and nothing else
and the scorching deserts. I am , Pardon so long a letter, and
mailing today to Los Angeles and again let me impress you with
to Albuquerque to officials of; my real interest in your bridge
the Southern California Auto! project and tender myself if
Association, assurances that this can serve you in any manner "
good boosters we are and be
ready to do our part.
A. B. Carrick
visitor Monday.
was a Hinton
Mrs. F. M. Keys left Sunday
for her home near Rankin after
a three weeks visit with rel-
atives here.
MUSIC INSTRUCTOR
Piano, Voice and Violin
Mrs. H. Geissler, of EH Reno, who has
been teaching here successfully for more
than two years, is still continuing her effi-
.. j*
I! cient w<Jrk. She will be with us
. , x 7 ^;; .... . v ., c .yuu any manner.' I year, and all interested in piano, voiee
bridge is absolutely OK and that I, A great deal of credit for the 01 m ou,d cal! and ** her-
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the-Bridgeport hold-up" in Ok-1 building of this bridge belongs
lahoma is now a thing of the to Jacob Wildman of Geary, Tom
past. I will also see that the C. Ottinger and M. E. Mon-
fact is also heralded in every; sell of Anadarko, Dell Kerns of
newspaper in this state t h a t i Bridgeport and all of the Geary
MRS. H. GEISSLER
At Brewer s residence, in Geary, every
MONDAY-TELEPHONE NO.-63
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The Geary Booster (Geary, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1915, newspaper, January 15, 1915; Geary, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc183310/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.