Deception bridge stats

Washington Department of Transportation records: Deception & Canoe Pass Bridges, 0,281 mile, steel cantilever and arch spans. Contractor: Puget Construction Company, contract award – $315,236,15, completed July 25, 1935. Earlier highway construction work, Deception Pass Road, March 17, 1934 (includes Canoe & Deception Pass bridges). Total length of bridges 1,487.08 feet. Width of roadway, 22 feet. More than 700 cars passed over the bridge in the first hour it was open on July 31, 1935. 460 tons of steel were used for the 511-foot Canoe Pass arch and 1,130 tons of steel for the 976-foot Deception Pass span. Construction of the bridge was accomplished without a single fatality, or a serious accident. (Photo from collection of the late Dorothy Neil, historian and author; from a postcard produced in the Thirties. Ellis photo.)