清光绪三十三年(1907年),在兰州道彭英甲建议和甘肃总督升允的赞助下,兰州市政府动用国库白银30.669万两,委托德商泰来洋行喀佑斯承建,美国人满宝本、德国人德罗作技术指导,修建了长233.33米、宽7米的黄河第一座铁桥,初名“兰州黄河铁桥”。德国技术人员承诺,大桥80年质量不变。这座大桥建成至今已100多年,在 Thirty-three years of the Guangxu (1907), Lanzhou Road Peng Yingjia recommendations and Gansu Governor Sheng Yun’s sponsorship, Lanzhou municipal government to use 300,669 two thousand treasury bonds, commissioned by the German business to Chixiong construction, American Man Po The German DeRuo for technical guidance, the construction of 233.33 meters long, 7 meters wide and the Yellow River’s first iron bridge, first name Lanzhou Yellow River Iron Bridge. German technicians promise that the bridge will remain unchanged in quality for 80 years. The bridge has been built more than 100 years ago