Show MOFFAT TUNNEL BOARD WILL WILE HAVE RAVE REARING HEARINGS Applications of or Irrigation Irrigation Companies I I to to Take T.-ikc Water From Western Slope to be bo Considered 1 i r West st I Portal olt 1 Remains Bail Bad ad I Hearings on an applications for for use i of Moffat tunnel wj will l be be he held by hi tunnel tunnel l commission in Denver Denyer this week At t these the tilO commission I will vIll consider the a application c ti 0 11 of the i Gr Great at Western Irrigation company to obtain acre f feet t of water from r m the western stern slope It will villa villa- af- af consider io 30 consider mho Iho application of tho o Fraser Sources Power ower Irrigation Company liy to to rent the tunnel for far U e diversion of of Cre t feet et T The Tle The le Fraser Eraser Sources company it Is understood understood un un- d plans fo to supply the time 20 00 acre feet wanted by the Great Western company mp It al also o purposes I to furnish water to ot other irrigation I projects on the eastern slope T Tte e application Of cf thO the Denver water wat wat- er tr commissioners to use the wat water r tunnel will be heard also aIso The Tho I water which the city wants to divert is the he same water which the Fraser FraserS S Sources company filed on many years before the city eity filling was made It If is expected that at time the conclusion conclusion ion of the hearings the commission will take the applications under a ad advisement advisement ad- ad and announce its decision at a later date Progress on the tunnel Moffat-tunnel l Is said to be very satisfactory At the the present rate of or progress it i is hoped that the water tunnel and the time main tunnel headings w will be holed hole 1 through next June or July and not January as reported some time ago agop ago and that the railroad tunnel wail wm be widened and completed before January January January Jan Jan- uary of or 1927 If this is done it will willbe be six months ahead of schedule The date set for lor completion in th thE contract is July 19 1927 or months from from the date of of signing which was September 19 9 1923 All An Ant t this lis Is predicated at d upon upon fairly gOOl good ground at west portal but this ho however however how how- ever is said to remain bad ad Dunns Ii the past week material was encountered encountered which ran almost like e w wet r c cement ment and amid the time meth method d had to be employed |