Cain's 30-ton bridge is a dream come true
Big Bend resident Francis Cain said "I've always dreamed of having a bridge (across the Little Kanawha) to my house, and now it's happening."
The well-known Calhoun farmer and oil and gas man has been fording the river for years and using a swinging bridge to walk to his house.
Construction started on the all-steel 30-ton "Bailey Bridge" in
April, by contractor Turman Construction of Barboursville.
"It has been quite an undertaking," said Cain, who said some of the bridge company officials and workers go back to his school days at West Virginia University in the late 1940s.
The main part of the bridge, including the steel mat floor, will be skidded across the piers.
"We hope to have it completed by the first frost," he said. | 
