CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - LAST SECTION PUT IN PLACE
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CEDAR COUNTY NEWS AUGUST 23, 1923

LAST SECTION PUT IN PLACE LAST SATURDAY TO AFFORD CONTINOUS CROSS

For the last time Captain Geisler's pontoon bridge is now affording a 
continous crossing between South Dakota and Nebraska at the north end 
of Cedar County, the work of completing the structure having been 
finished last Saturday.

For some time the bridge has been practically completed, except for a 
gap on the Nebraska side, where six boats remained to be put in. All 
day Friday and part of the day Saturday a crew labored to finish the 
bridge, and the crossing was available Saturday night.

There is every indication that this will be the last season the bridge 
will be used as the big Meridian Highway bridge will undoubtedly be 
completed next year before the time comes to use the pontoon again. 
The pontoon bridge has been used every year since 1900.

Unusual flood conditions have caused considerable delay in comleting 
the bridge this summer. A sudden rise in the river last week nearly 
sent the whole structure down the stream, and only heroic measures 
saved it. The boats forming the bridge were anchored to the concrete 
piers of the Meridian Highway bridge by ropes and this kept them in 
their place.

The river has dropped rapidly since last week, standing about at the 
four foot level on the gauge, with indications of going down even 
further.