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Show UTAH-COLORADO ROOMED EARLY 8TART ON WORK OF CON STRUCTION 18 ASSURED; CON- TRACT TO BE AWARDED SOON Governor Shoup of Colorado Affixes Signature to Measure Appropriating $6,000,000 for Big Bore Through Mountain Range Denver, Colo Govomor Ollvor R, Shoup of Colorado slgnod tho Moffat tunnol bill at 10 o'clock Friday morning morn-ing . Tho governor left immodlatoly for Washington D. C, nnd upon hla return to Donver ho will nppolnt the five members of tho board of tunnol commissioners. com-missioners. Immediately nftcr their appolntmout the flvo commissioners will moot nnd lny plans for awarding tho contract to boro tho tunnol. Tho actual work of breaking the ground nt tho portnls of tho tunnel should befy'n about August 1. Tho bill recently passed both houses of the Colorado legislature with overwhelming over-whelming lAiJorltlos. It was sont to tho govornor following Its final pns sago April 30. The governor doclded to wait for tho legal opinion regarding tho constitutionality of tho bill be foro signing It With this to hnnd with tlit- Btatomcnt that it was constitutional, con-stitutional, the governor affixed his slgnnturo nnd tho bill boenmo law. Undor tho tonus of tho bill, $0,000 000 will bo spont In constructing a tunnel six miles In length through the Continental Divide, noar tho foot of James peak, which will link a vast area In nnrthwestorn Colorado with Donvei nnd shorten the dlstnnco be-twocn be-twocn Denver nnd Snlt Lako City. |