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San Francisco-Oakland
Bay Bridge
Looking toward San Francisco
from Bridge Tower
HE and steel used in
T the bridge is sufficient to build 35 Russ Buildings (San
Francisco), 35 City Halls (Los Angeles); or 35 L. C. Smith
Buildings (Seattle).
The total length of the 21/4" suspender ropes will be 43
miles, and the total length of cable wire used will be 70,815
miles-nearly three times the circumference of the earth.
The bridge, which is the largest in the world and which
cost $77,600,000, is being built for the California Toll Bridge
Authority, of which Governor Frank Merriam is Chair-
man. by the State Department of Public Works. of which
Earl Lee Kelly is Director and C. H. Purcell is Chief Engi-
neer.
The bridge is financed entirely without taxation, its cost
defrayed by sale of 434 per cent bonds issued against the
prospective revenues of the bridge. These bonds have been
purchased at a discount increasing the yield to 5 per cent by
the Federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation and may
eventually be sold to the public.
In addition to the bonds purchased by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, the State Gas Tax Fund loaned $6,-
600,000 for the building of the approaches which sum must
be repaid the Gas Tax Fund out of tolls before the bridge
can be made free to the public. Like a State highway, the
completed bridge will be maintained out of the State High-
way Fund.
PICTURE NO. 10-C • PUB. BY J. C. BARDELL - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
