Show 3 TUNNELS THROUGH CONTINENTAL DIVIDE Bores Under James Janie I Peak cal Marshall l and 1 Pusses Passes U Urged ed by byTho byTho byTho Tho Colorado State Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- road Commission The Colorado railroad commission commis commis- sion slon created b by act of the regular session of the twenty-second twenty general gener gener- al assembly last week filed its first report with Governor Shoup recommending recommending mending the te Immediate construe construe- construction construction tion tian of ot tunnels through James peak l Marshall ll pass and Cumbres pass outlining t the e legal action necessary to the prosecution of the work and presenting statistics to show that the interests of oC the state school lands alone in the localities which would would-be be tapped by the tunnels are pf magnitude as to warrant any Investment the state might make ake The commission has reached the conclusion that these three main rang range tunnels are r feasible the report re report report re- re re- re port reads in part that their con- con at ruc n would y quickly 1 solve sobs the greatest difficulties now embarrassing embarrass embarrass- embarrassing ing t I the Colorado transportation Situation and that the work of driving them c can cn n be done now at not Excessive cost The ThO commission commission- Is of the o Ion Ion- lon Ion that their construction should be bo undertaken undertaken by the the state ot of Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado rado after securing from the railroads rail rail- railroads roads which would use them en enforceable en- en n- n til contracts for their use on terns reasonably e to the stat state If these tunnels are now to be by the state an an initiated amendment to the state tion Uon authorizing th the commission to build th them m providing for a bond ond Is- Is to d iT t.- t. suet sue F Cd 1 Sp i t Dg t rats of or their thir co str m T l C th r r 4 t 1 to tA A detailed led estimate estimate of the cost of tire the the proposed tunnels Is not yet f 1 available but L L. D. D cons consulting consulting con con- s engineer of the commission Is is I working toward that end The report states that the countIes counties counties coun coun- ties located west of the continental divide which would benefit from the driving of the tunnels now have havea a population of but that there is reason to believe western Colorado o Is able to support by its own productiveness a population Continued on Page Eight |