In_the Finance Committee of the Danish Folketing M. N. M. Slebsager, Minister of Public Works, recently submitted a scheme for the construction of a bridge across the Little Belt, between Jutland and the island of Funen. The proposal, says the "Danish Foreign Office Journal," has been worked out by the engineering staff of the State Railways, and provides for a double-track, high-level bridge, 33 m. above water level, thus allowing even the largest ships to pass under it. The bridge would have three navigable spans, one of 105 m., and the other two 90 m. each. Tha total cost is estimated at nearly 30 million kronen. If the bridge is not constructed in the comparatively near future certain extensions and improvements of the ferry service are regarded as essential, and these would cost about 12 million kronen, so that the real additional expenditure involved by the erection of a bridge would be between 18 miilion and 19 million kronen, v File the annual expenditure would be reduced by over two million kronen. For the purpose of preliminary investigations of the sea bottom and the tide water, the Minister has asked for a special grant of 50,000 kronen. The introduction of the necessary Bill in the Rigsdag is expected to be made in the early autumn.—''En. gineering."
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