Excerpt from Industry: A Magazine Devoted to Science, Engineering, and Mechanic Arts, Especially on the Pacific Coast; January to December, 1893 (Inclusive) The trans-andine railway across the Andes, to connect Buenos Ayres, on the Atlantic. With Valparaiso, on the Pacific Ocean, has been completed, except 42 miles at the summit: In one case there are sixty bridges required in a little more than 100 miles, and most of these bridges were constructed in this country against competitive bids in England, mainly because of the time required. The English builders wanted eight months, and the American firms eight weeks, a wide difference. The bridges were constructed by the Phoenix Iron Works, near Philadelphia, where there is an enormous plant, and an organized system of working different from anything of the kind in Europe. There each bridge is a special design worked out by an engineer, and sent to a contractor. Here bridges are made of an uniform type. A good design is decided upon, and the makers work to that design, furnishing bridges by the piece, or by the yard. As one might say. There is no objection to this in so far as the quality of bridges, and a considerable advantage is gained in their cost, but it centralizes the industry and cuts of? Competition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.