Show Work Commenced on Moffat MoffatT T Tunnel at Western P Portal ort l Site for Construction Construct on Camp amp is being Cleared Commissioners Cleared Commissioners 5 Meet to Select Engineer and Call can for Bids Bids I I Early Start on Salt Lake Extension d I I. I iii TUNNEL BONDS SOLD 1 The Moffat tunnel commission sold SOll Moffat tunnel o 0 bonds to R. R M. M Grant Company Company Com Corn pany Inc of oC New York for par var and a premium of or e The bonds are to bear interest at the rate of 5 3 per vel cent p S S S S Preparations for the boring of the Moffat tunnel are arc being pushed with all an possible speed and actual work of co construction is already under way a crew of 40 men having commenced this week to clear the site of the construction construction construction con con- camp to be built at the western western west west- ern era portal one mile east of Vasquez says the Steamboat Sentinel of Juno 22 This work is being done I r I I I i I I under the direction of the Tunnel commission to enable the contractor to start operations without delay as quickly as us he can assemble his his- equip- equip en after the contract is awarded An extensive area is to be graded to provide room for a camp camp of considerable considerable considerable con con- proportions with buildIngs buildings build build- Ings housing the power plant and boarding houses and cottages for the workmen Many teams are being employed in the work and the contractor contractor con- con tractor has this week been ig g hay and feed from Middle park for immediate delivery at athe atthe atthe the he camp C. C H. H Leckenby of Steamboat and Charles J. J Wheeler of ot Yampa the western vestern slope members of the Tunnel Tunnel Tunnel Tun Tun- nel commission left Tuesday for Denver to attend the most important meeting of bf the commission yet held and at which all aU of or the proceedings will vill be set in progress for the construction construction con- con of the great tunnel which is s to pierce the divide Commissioners Commissioners' R Robinson binson Willcox and Blayney a majority of the board had lad been in hi session for several days but mt they desired the presence of Leckenby and aud Wheeler before taking aking the final steps Jn la disposing of the he bonds casing caling n fr r bids on the construction con contract tr rind ind selecting the lie engineer who will have charge of the he great undertaking It is expected net riat 1 Major ajor L. L D. D D.- D. Blauvelt will be prevailed upon to accept the position of chief engineer of f the tunnel He is the man luau as s he is thoroughly thoroughly- familiar with the proposition through his long asso- asso elation with the Moffat road a as chief engineer during which time he perfected perthe per- per the surveys surveys for the tunnel He Heis Hes HeI is s recognized as one of the most Capable ca capable ca- ca pable construction engineers in the country and during the war was wasI called ailed by b- the government to take charge harge of or some ot of Its largest construction construction con- con undertakings One of the problems facing the commission is the provision in the Tunnel bill that an election shall beheld be held on July 10 by the tho voters of the Tunnel runnel district to ale elect t members of the he commission to succeed the five who vho last year year were appointed by Governor Shoup The legislature made made madeno no provision for the expense expense of this election and as the estimated cost wil be many thousand dollars a way around the difficulty is is' being sought ought An immediate result of la last t. t weeks week's favorable decision on the Moffat tunnel matter malter by the United States supreme court I Is the announcement announcement announcement an an- of Governor Simon Bamberger Barn Bam berger of Utah that he be will at once start preparations for the construction construction construe construe- tion of or the tho Salt Lake Denver railroad railroad rail raU road which is to b be built from Salt Lake Lak to the Colorado state line or to Craig to provide a western outlet for the Denver Salt Lake the Moffat Moffat Moffat fat road This line is to be completed completed com corn and In operation by the time the Moffat tunnel is opened for traffic traffic fic and by this means the destiny of the Moffat road will be fulfilled as asIt asit it will make it a n link in the most direct rail route across the United States The Bamberger road crosses the Wasatch a at h range rang west of ot the Uin- Uin in- in I ian an uy vy grades graces never exceeding 2 per cent and offering far less difficulties difficulties dif dif- dif dif- than the many miles of heavy grades on the Denver Rio Grande Western Vestern across Soldier summit summit sum sum- mit between Price and Provo Utah Governor Bamberger declared last week that the court decision removed the last obstacle standing in the way of or the construction of the line connecting connecting con con- fleeting Craig and Salt Lake City He stated that he had positive assurance assurance assurance as as- that the funds funds' for the work will be Immediately available and that his company company will pro proceed eed at once to the development of final plans preliminary to th the tha beginning of actual construction The building building build build- ing ling of ot this connection will open the markets of the ike Pacific coast to Routt count county and as Governor declared upon the occasion of his visit to Steamboat Springs two years oars ago will result in the multiplication of the production of ot this territory by ten-fold ten tenths nine-tenths of ot which will go west The announcement made Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day in New York of the plans for forthe forthe forthe the reorganization of the Denver Rio Grande Western Vestern railroad as the joint property of the Missouri Pacific Paci- Paci Ic fic and the the Vestern Western Pacific will have havea a favorable effect in promoting the importance of the Moffat ro road d' d and the Bamberger extension to Salt I ILak Lake Lak City If the United States court and the interstate commerce commission approve the Ri Rio Grande plan lan It will have havethe the effect of closing that hat road to the Burlington as a western outlet and will place the Burlington und under r more necessity th than n ever of assisting in the completion completion comple comple- tion of the Moffat road to SaW Salt Lake The of the Rio Grande into the Missouri Pacific system will also be of great benefit tor to tOI Routt butt co county nty in providing an additional l i di direct direct direct di- di route to tp the east It has been positively a announced that the Rio Grande will use the Moffat l tunnel shortening its distance to DenVer by miles by the construction of the Dotsero cutoff allowing It to escape all severe grades in crossing the Rocky Rock mount mountains ins To o make full use of this this' saving the Missouri Pacific will doubtless build the direct directs line Une into Denver from Crom the east which it has long contemplated and this will open to Moffat road territory fa a a new newmarket newmarket newmarket market in Kansas Oklahoma and the south a akell ell as another route to the east |