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Show BIG LOAN SOUGHT TOB0JL0TWEI RECEIVER DE8IRE8 TO COMPi ETt RAILWAY LINE INTO UINTA BASIN, UTAH; A8K8 LOAN Fifty Billion Tona of Bltumlnou. Coa! Will Be Drouoht Korth By Completion of Proposed Road Building "Wnshlnston.-Tho Denver ft Sli IJiko IMIrond company applied Mon. ' any jr. tho Interstuto comniorco com m;f3lonfor nRovernuiont ioaiiofsn. 000,000 with which to construct n tun nol six miles long on n portion of tin rond about 170 mllus west of Denver Tho receivers of the Donvor&Snil Inko rnllrond, In niKulnB for Krnut o tho loan, doclnrod (ho proposed tun nel would eliminate. Krn.o and norlous dlfflculltlos" which they now have to fuco In operntliiK tho railroad, vvlileh Climbs to 11,000 foot nbovo sen levol Tho tunnel would allow them to re-duco re-duco tho highest eluvntlon on tho rail-rond rail-rond to 0100 feet, mill would ollmliinto twenty-seven miles of -I por cont cradw over which their loomotlvos now have to climb In winter with rotary snow, plows In front overy day to maintain operations. If tho money Is Krnnted, the re. cclvers nddod, tho line enn bo comple. ted to Its projected terminus at Salt Lnko City, and n coal flotd estimated to contain CO.000,000.000 tons of bltumln. ous conl can bo adequately served. Tho receivers estimated that tho Ijw-er Ijw-er operating chnrges and tho Increased efficiency attained by a lonif tunnel nt the summit would result Immediately In nn Incroaso of 200 por cent in the traffic. Also n very largo area of (Vlo rndo now without railroad Rorvlco, rnd much of It government loud, tho nppll. cation said, would bo made avn'lahlo for settlement. |