Show First Hand Information Moffat Tunnel Construction at West Portal Several hundred Moffat tunnel workers will wUl be under cover before snow ft files fifes les The commissioners have decided to o begin the work at once They fear that hat if they waited until the contract contracts is s let on or after August 25 the time Ime between that date and be too short In order to get ready for actual boring with tho the modern drills it will wUl be necessary to move yards ards of dirt near the west portal ortal Before lefore this paper is s to fn n the hands of all ill its many readers leaders that work will willbe wille Le be e in progress Immense steam shovels hovels will be used A representative of oC the Duchesne Courier last week went to the celebration celebration tion lion at Steamboat Springs and then thenon on to the west wesl portal for the purpose of securing first hand Information From My Myton ton to Hayden the trip was made with Dr R. R J. J Enochs in a Ford car The distance miles was covered In just ten hours Roads through a part of Duchesne county and all of or Uintah county Utah and nd Moffat ands and Routt counties Colerado Colorado Colorado Colo Cole rado are first class else we couldn't have averaged 20 miles an hour From Steamboat to Hot Sulphur Springs we traveled with Sam Y Taylor and son Bill of ot Salt Lake Lale Roads good Mr Taylor is manager of the Uintah Basin Construction company At Hot Sulphur we were joined by Charles L. L Brown a prominent prominent prominent nent business man of Kremmling Will tell you something about this man Brown later ter on The west portal overlooks the Victory highway and Fraser river just miles from Duchesne and 68 68 miles from Denver A large sign facing the highway about feet from the portal consists of at a picture of the famous James peak showing the main tunnel and pioneer tunnel and andi also carrying the following information information information in in- formation Length of tunnel 6 miles Highest point V feet Reduces elevation 2421 feet Reduces distance 2313 miles Reduces maximum grade from 4 to 2 2 It could also have said reduces time Ume three hours On the opposite side of the road the Victory high highway way sign says San Francisco 1298 miles New York 1841 1811 miles Denver 68 miles Salt Lake miles Lawson 21 miles Fraser 5 miles With a small kodak Mr Taylor took fourteen pictures which if it good will wUl be printed In this news news- from time Ime to time or else elso all at one time in connection with a page article Among the pictures are V. 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A Kauffman Cauffman resident engineer James peak in background Victory highway and Fraser river at point where train will come out of oC tunnel and onto trestle GOO feet long and feet diggings from Crom test tet pits workmen at windlass high peaks on right and d andon on left of tunnel trenches for Cor sewage system ana and water works In order to find bedrock three test pits were dug the first near Victory VIctory Victory Vic VIc- tory highway 48 feet deep second feet east 56 feet deep deap third feet feyt east of second The Tho ro rock k formation here was decomposed ed and liolu was abandoned A hole or pit will be dug In fact doubtless has eon Leen lee dug by this time thine rp fret t tast east ast in a swail The tUl tunnel lel survey Is not quite east and west It is exactly exactly exactly ex ex- ex- ex nine degrees s and sixteen mn mn- utes south of west at the west portal and the same degrees and and- minutes north of east at east cast portal It is highly probable that tha-t the west portal will begin feet to the south of or where the survey now runs which would mean nine degrees and fifty- fifty nine minutes south of west It is believed that the tunnel will wUl reveal precious metal especially gold Among the surface rock is to be found round a quartz m mixed d with mica The earth is kind of yellowish The Tile timber timber timber tim tim- ber is lodgepole spruce pruce pine qua ken asp Here an and there ferns and wild wildflowers wildflowers flowers greet the eye and all the way down in those co cold ld crystal streams from the altitude of feet portal portal por- por tal lal of tunnel to Steamboat nearly feet lower are sporty speckled beauties In the deep woods flutter the Ule- old mother grouse and her covey of young while yonder In the cove is a big old buckskin You wonder how with long horns he can make such headway through thick underbrush under under- brush In the many parks which dot these mighty national forests the forests the Ro Rocky ky Mountain i the the Arapahoe and the Routt are Routt-are are the most succulent and luxuriant grasses and young calves with their mothers and older brothers are slick and arid In misery having eaten so much Thousands more would not deplete that grazing grazing graz graz- ing but it is said the cattleman there are now far too many When winter comes and covers covers the earth with its Us white blanket th that t tall grass will be underneath still green and useless From the time Ume the Moffat train emerges from the darkness of the tunnel into the the bright day light Ight until it reaches Craig there Is boundless wealth in timber Umber cattle horses horse sheep grain hay head lettuce straw strawberries w- w berries berres precious metals and coal all of which run up Into the hundreds of or thousands of tons But as we take the trip back ack over the Victory highway let us stop for a mom moment nt at ata ata ata a few interesting towns First Is s Woods' Woods sawmill a mile this side of the portal porta It used to tobe tobe be owned by Fred Feltch now of i Vernal At Woods' Woods we found V. 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A Kauffman resident engineer He is rather small physically but quite large mentally He Hes Is 46 years years' old oid Mr Ir Kauffman's dream is coming true For years he imagined a hole InI in I that mountain Seventeen years ago he made the tunnel survey right where it Is s now His three story of office office office of- of fice building was just about ready for occupancy last Thursday Thursday- Fraser is a small town four miles this side of Woods Woods' Away to the north are Grand lake Estes park and Hagues peak This peak Is g nearly feet above sea level Tabernash Is the division point on Moffat road When the tunnel Is Is' finished it Is more than likely another another another an an- other town further west will be se se- se Granby is a town of not to exceed people yet Its main street is thronged all day with auto auto- mobiles Tourists traveling from coast to coast and to and from summer sum suni summer mer resorts stop there The service station man says 1000 cars go through every day Hot Sulphur Springs is a a. famous resort at an altitude of feet feel i I The bath house has recently been improved If that road leading from the man main part of town to the thc depot and bath house was fixed up a little and a few lights strung alon along pedestrians would fare much bolter botter Kremmling is a noted town for fur several reasons reasons and we pause h here re in fact we spend the night here while we Ve give some some of the reasons First right at its very door is the tile famous Gore canyon where Dt David Iel H. H Moffat road road construction was halted for five years while rhile he litigated ed cd with the United s government government government govern govern- ment and finally won If Ir It hadn't been for that delay we might have had a railroad d long ago The Gores Gore's mouth looks as if a very little dam would fill it up The country clear back almost to Sulphur Springs provides provides provides pro pro- vides an ideal reservoir site fully as Is s Strawberry The government government govern govern government ment wanted a dam at at Gore and Mr Moffat wanted his railroad to go through h it It Is said road construction construction tion don for three or four miles mUes through the canyon cost hundreds of thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of dollars per mile One man even went so far as to declare Jt t cost a million dollars a mile Charlie Brown who took us from Hot Sulphurs Sulphurs Sulphurs Sul Sul- to Portal lives at Kremmling The story of that mans man's life Ure sounds more lIk like fiction than truth Eighteen E years ago in Leadville he was a down and outer He was worse than broke No use In going into details except to say he reminds one of the Prodigal son that's all One day he woke up but he didn't return to his fathers father's house He landed in Hot Sulphur Springs without a nickle and for nearly two years he cut meat In a butcher shop Then the Colorado Credit Mens Men's association turned over o overto overto to him a busted mercantile establishment establishment establishment establish establish- ment at Kremmling Frank Jones a abig abig abig big cattleman went in with him Today Today Today To To- day the the Jones Brown-Jones store Is s one of th tho biggest concerns in Northwestern Col Colorado rado In addition to that Brown Brownis is 15 a director in the Kremmling bank and the Sulphur bank And he owns houses and lots and farms That Thatis is not half of oft it Soon after he landed landed landed land land- ed in Sulphur when he was yet on his uppers a fine young woman married mar mar- rl reed ried d him They have had nine children children children chil chil- dren four of ot whom are arc living A number of years ago a well known magazine published a story The TheMan TheMan TheMan Man Who Came Back That man must have been Charles Lyman Brown And he is likely to be much i richer than he is He is about to I re-gain re possession of the Gordon I mine at Twin TI Lakes near worth many thousands of dollars after af at- after atter ter years litigation of I At last we know how Steamboat Springs came canie by its name A mineral miner miner- al spring bubbled up out of the ground and made a nose noise like liko a steamboat whistle In that town are 25 other mineral springs Perhaps the most famous is the hot sulphur degrees degrees' F. F at the Cabin hotel Steamboat county seat of or Routt has lias a population of about 1500 A late improvement is a a very handsome handsome hand hand- handi i 1 some somo court house Deep snow falls on the hills and long since the citizens citizens citi cm- zens have capitalized it just like they have capitalized the wonderful springs the wonderful scenery along with the tho other resources The skI sk tournaments monts have world wide re re- re- re In fact tact the world ski record was made there The city is is the home Charlie of-Charlie H H. Moffat Mot Mot- fat tunnel oner and editor of the Steamboat Pilot II H. C. C Wood also well known In the basin Is editor of or the Routt Roust County Senti Sent nel ad Steamboat is miles from Denver One of the beautiful and andOne andOne andOne I One Last Page I 1 HAND lIAND INFO INFORMATION FIRST fie One Otte Page From rom leading Rabb in-Rabb into in- in highways well maintained Rabbit Ear The Theto to the city is there the in t the et Yampa valley val val- oft off scenerY description beggars ley to the south and miles mUes as one approaches approaches ap- ap For miles ast one can ce of from peak peak two O which rocks rocks which up on top of a cars of a rabbit SEs the look just Rabbit like Ear pass pass I Hence ce ago E. E than omit forty years More engineer too took up a Shelton an adjoining the town of homestead At noW 91 he still lives on the Hayden is United States He homestead and works every day commissioner of culture and re- re Hayden is a Recently town a 90 school hospital were building and nd a h e Republican The Th-e Haylen completed the newsPaper Adjoining is a good Carey ranch or of renowned town Is the no 01 acres L But liUI ul J Carey UJ A stock company was I Isome own It A longer ormea tt A son of I Ione some time ago Between De- De president is of the Carets Careys one and Steamboat are Hayden tween which Include Mt 1 Harris coal camps camp Fourteen miles MIlner Anthracite north or of Hayd Hayden n is the bed that mat Craig Is asgood asgood as asgood people say Some Steamboat Whether good a town as with good town is a not it It is or er population The Union 1500 about from Wamsutter survey has a I Pacific the north through Craig andon and andon ter on and Axial basin Mt Streeter on to the at Craig I Two papers Courier Meeker and Empire Craig Craigs is s the time road roads Craig Craigs terminus of ot the Moffat county seat of Moffat county count Is s the which was created in 1912 1912 out of a apart apart part of Routt The county is more than miles long From Craig to Jensen miles is what has long been C called a desert but waste It Is a desert all right not necessarily a was waste e. e Most of the territory is fertile and can be bo irrigated Irrigated river At Maybell Maybell May- May gated from r the the- Bear Dear Bearr bell 33 miles mlles from Craig a considerable considerable consid consid- erable area Is now under cult cultivation atOJ I Tho Tire only settlement between l and Jensen are Sunbeam Kolly- Kolly Springs Boxelder Skull vile ville Elk creek K ranch Oil and oil all shale possibilities in Moffat county are I vast Northwestern Colorado will wUl produce during the next twelvemonths twelve twelvemonths I months tons of coal The output of grain mostly non ed this year will be not less than bushels There will wIl be thousands of oC tons of hay bay head let- let uce cattle and sheep Therefore the tile minute the train comes out of the tunnel until it reaches Salt Lake there will be heavy freight It is useless to hero mention again the big bg tonnage which vill be found in the Uintah basin and on west Tho The growing season in Northwestern Northwest Northwest- Routt and ern en rn Colorado especially Grand counties Is very short and the winter snow gets deep DIversified Diversified Diversified Diver DIver- crops can not be raised like here in the Uintah basin with longer season an and lower altitude o |