Show I TUNNEL WORKMEN TO GET BONUS FOR SPEED Ventilating System Being Boing Installed and Electric Locomotives Ordered Order Order- e ed l for rOl Delivery as Soon as Possible Workman at each portal of the Moffat tunnel are walking into the mountain says the Steamboat Pilot I I While progress under all the circumstances circumstances cir cir- has been remarkable bonuses will soon bo be paid each shift by Hitchcock the con con- tractors An estimate of the progress that should be made by ea each h shift shirt will be submitted by the engineers and at the conclusion of the eight hours the work will wll bo bd measured and andi i if th the estimate a e of ot the engineer is is exceeded exceeded ex ex- then a bonus will be pe divided among members s of or the shift This decision by the contractors was reached as another incentive to fo tomen m men to n Speed f ed Thre r will be he huge bulletin boards at each portal ortal that will contain the names of the themen themen themen men on the shift and will chronicle the progress of oC each shift shirt It is presumed presumed presumed pre pre- that this will prove prove one of the big features of ot the work so far as the men are concerned Because it will be sixty da days s before before before be be- fore the permanent ventilation system system system tem can be installed including air compressors and transformers a temporary blower system ia is being installed in in- in installed installed stalled at the west portal At present it Is necessary to allow from two to three three hours after atter each shift quits work and a series series series' of dynamite dynamite dynamite dy dy- dy- dy shots is fired to permit the fumes of the explosive to escape from the tunnel so that the next crew can start work When the temporary blower system system t tem m is installed air will vill be piped to the breast of the tunnel After each series of dynamite shots the escaping escaping escaping ing air will expel the explosive fumes from the tunnel in a few minutes This will Fill permit following crews to to start work immediately and will speed up progress by one one- third Twelve electric locomotives have been ordered by Hitchcock Tink Tink- ler Inc contractors for use in the Moffat tunnel The locomotives ar arto are areto areto to be from the General Electric company and will be for the movement movement move move- ment of rock and dirt from the transportation transportation trans trans- I and water tun tunnels els that tha I will be bored simultaneously The contractors also ordered from the Osgood company In Marion Ohio two steam shovels that will be us used rt inside the tunnels in removing roe k I and dirt and loading them on the tho cars The locomotives and the shovels are for delivery in sixty sixt days at which time it is estimated d that that- w 1 l L on the transportation tunnel will re he e under full headway and the water wat r tunnel will be ia fairly far along lo lg Rails Ralls in the theater water ater tunnel from irom l be he laid will be a and there both portals steam shovel at each end with the I locomotives hauling g the trains also I I operating from each portal An estimate has be been u made that when the two tunnels are finished d. d that the dump of each will be feet and approximately the story seven-story building This Title height of a gives an idea of the amount of rock and dirt to be taken out have been een The dump cars also locomotives and ordered These connection with the cars have no of th the final electrical equipment tr transportation tu tunnel 1 That will Wil be bedone e edone done dotie by the Moffat Tunnel comm c commis commission mm s- s conclusion of th the sion cion after the work Last week Mr Hitchcock was a of af State Bridge investigating trucking conditions from the Rio Gran Grande Grando e railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road in the event that the Moffat protracted l road Is subjected to any is the usual case delay by snow as during the winter The opening of ofa ofa t ta a trucking road into Wolcott would and Inlet to the furnish an outlet Denver benver Rio west portal by the considerable Grande Crande tho the covering a more mileage than by Berthoud pass or by the Moffat railroad |