I've been there 3 times as I recall, once as a child and 2 more times.
Interesting place, amazing structure to climb in and under.
As for how it was built, a series of ropes were carried across,probably by pack mules. Then a cable tramway was established that could carry the massive cables across.
It only took 6 months to build, was built without major incident or loss of life.
The primary reason for being built was for tourism. A little comparison to the value of a dollar then and now, it only cost $350,000 to build!
Looking down to the canyon below, there are the remains of a huge wooden pipeline. Would have been a massive undertaking, it tunnels through the rock in many places. It was used for pumping water from a reservoir upstream to a nearby town. But I never understood why there would be a need for water to be piped along a river?
There is also a crumpled remain of a car or truck embedded in the rocks part way down the canyon wall. Story is someone drove around the end of the bridge at full speed. No one knows why, suspected suicide.
There was a forest fire that went through in 2013, wiped out everything but the bridge itself. But everything has been rebuilt, and more added.
There was an inclined railroad that went to the bottom of the canyon, but it was lost to the fire and probably will not be rebuilt.
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