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Multnomah, in Oregon, and Clarke, in Washington, jointly constructed a bridge across the Columbia River at Vancouver, it being finished and thrown open to traffic on February 14, 1917, the fifty-eighth anniversary of the admission of i'hotif by Hicks Lhatten INTERSTATE WAOON BBIDOE

Oregon into the Union. Miiltnomah County appropriated $1,250,000 for this purpose, and Clarke County $500,000. . The bridge is a Y-shaped structure with a lift span of 275 feet. The entire length of the bridge including its approaches is four and a half miles, the main part consisting of 1 3 steel spans—three of which are 275 feet long, each, and the others being ten feet shorter—reaching in all approximately two-thirds of a mile. The bridge has a paved roadway of 38 feet in width, has a five foot sidewalk on one side and is the only wagon bridge spanning the Columbia river between the states of Oregon and