Three Hundred Men to Build the Pend d'Oreille Bridge
The Great Northern will put 300 workers to work at Newport on March 1 to finish its new river bridge and the cutoff toward Albeni Falls.
Superintendent Brown, of the western district of the Great Northern, has announced that 300 men will be put to work in this city on March 1, to complete the work of constructing the new bridge across the Pend d'Oreille River and completing the cutoff at the meadows between this city and Albeni Falls. Mr. Brown has just returned from a meeting of the division superintendents of the road. He said: "Nothing out of the ordinary came up before the meeting. We merely discussed matters of the operating department, and outlined the work that will be done during the coming season. I am not prepared to say that any extra amount of work will be done on the line. We have kept about 600 men at work all the winter, and this force will be greatly increased in the near future. We have laid about 100 miles of rails in the western district, and expect by the end of the season to put down about 100 miles more. When the work planned is completed the line will be in first-class shape in every particular."
“We have kept about 600 men at work all the winter, and this force will be greatly increased in the near future.”
The Great Northern's bridge and cutoff were part of the rail boom that tied Newport to Spokane and the outside world. The promise of 300 jobs on March 1 would have been front-page news in a town that depended on the railroad, much as infrastructure spending and construction jobs are watched today.
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