Bulk Rate
PAID
San Francisco, Calif.
Permit No. 4123
Unusual erection procedure of Pope
Bridge in Napa hills, California, con-
sisted of cantilevering welded plate
girders over piers, then raising girders
from valley floor with the aid of a
guy-derrick poised on the end of the
cantilever. Engineers thus avoided
using falsework in steeper slopes of
the Canyon. The Pope and its neigh-
boring Putah Creek highway bridges
were fabricated and erected by Beth-
lehem Pacific. The structures which
span 165-foot deep valleys were de-
signed by the Bridge Department of
the California Division of Highways
for the County of Napa. The General
Contractor was John C. Gist Co. of
Sacramento. Hanging in mid-air is a
37-ton welded plate girder fabricated
at the Alameda Works of
BETHLEHEM PACIFIC COAST STEEL CORPORATION
General Offices: San Francisco
MR. CLIFTON J. BRADY
904 7TH AVE.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
MRS. H.
