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ROANOKE BRIDGE COMPANY
INCORPORATED

The Roanoke Bridge Company, Incorporated, was
organized February 14th, 1906, with E. C. McComb,
President; J. B. Botts, Vice President and Treasurer;
S. H. Heironimus, Assistant Treasurer, and S. H.
Holland, Secretary. These gentlemen with H. B.
McComb, constitute the Board of Directors of this
progressive enterprise. The Roanoke Bridge Company
was organized with the purpose in view of constructing
county and municipal bridge work and formerly
had contract with the Virginia Bridge and Iron
Company to fabricate all structural steel in their shops
at a specified price, while the Roanoke Bridge Company
contracted for and erected in the field. This
plan of procedure obtained until the beginning
of 1911 when shops were built at the intersection of
the Virginian and Norfolk & Western Railways, in
the southeastern part of the city, when the contract
with the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company was
severed. The year of 1911 has been the most successful
of any in the history of this enterprise.

When organized the capital stock was $35,000 all
of which is owned by a few well known and progressive
citizens of this city. The authorized stock at the
present time is $140,000.

The Roanoke Bridge Company operates in all of
the Southern States and conducts branch offices in
Atlanta, Georgia; Rock Hill, South Carolina, and
Jacksonville, Florida.

At the present time, a force of about three hundred
and fifty men are employed, including office forces
here and elsewhere, shop forces at the Roanoke plant,
and men connected with the construction work throughout
the country. About twenty gangs are now engaged
in various parts of the country in structural
and bridge work.

PARTIAL INTERIOR VIEW

Among the recent contracts secured by this firm is
a seven hundred foot bridge, including a two hundred
foot draw span, over the Nanticoke River in Maryland,
at a cost of $55,000; a $26,000 bridge in Polk
County, Tennessee; the building of the Wasena
Bridge over the Roanoke River, for the Wasena Land
Company and contracts were recently closed for the
construction of thirty-three bridges in Wise and Lee
counties in Virginia. A contract for an oil house,
one hundred by two hundred feet near New Orleans
was recently completed; also large warehouse and
car shops for the Carolina & Northwestern Railway
at Hickory, North Carolina.

The Roanoke Bridge Company is also general contractor
for reönforced concrete work and substructures
of all kinds.

At the new plant in Roanoke, a large and substantial
brick office building has been constructed, with every
modern convenience. From eighty to one hundred
men are employed regularly in the shops in this city
and the clerical forces number about twenty people.

This company, since its organization, nearly six
years ago, has contracted for and erected about six
hundred bridges throughout the Southern States.