Show TUNNEL IS N OW ASSURED PEOPLE OF DENVER AUTHORIZE commission TO PREPARE BOND ISSUE work wilt will cost over four million dollars and will shorten the route arrom rom denver to salt lake by sixty eight miles donvel deave coo the moffat tunnel amendment as carried by the people of denver on monday opens a a way for the boring of the tunnel through james peak and consequent opening up of hundreds of thousands of acres of rich agricultural and coal lands of at colorado and utah the people of denver in the election on monday authorized a tunnel commission whose duty it will be to formulate pans for a bond issue which they will prep prepare are to submit to the vote of the people at another election the proposed tunnel will commence just east of toll thirty five miles from denver it will be 64 miles in length and its construction will cost from to it ali alu shorten the route from denver to salt lake city by sixty elgh miles as figured by the union pacific mileage and miles as by the denver deaver rio grande route the tunnel will be owned by the city and county of denver until abich a time as the denver danver sat t lake railroad pays the entire amount ot the bonds the city retains the perpetual rights to carry water and power through the tunnel |