Show VOTES completion OF DENVER SALT LAKE RAILROAD ASSURED BY THIS ACTION denver will provide three million i to aid in the construction of a tunnel through the continental divide denver colo by their action on tuesday the citizens of denver made possible the briding building bu iding of the denver salt lake railroad into salt lake city within three years aad made their own city a transcontinental railway point at a special election held tuesday the proposition to bond the city for to aid in the construction of a tunnel through the continental divide to be used jointly by the denver salt lake railroad and other lines carried by a two to one vote and a majority ci of f approximately the carrying of 0 the bond proposition will result in almost incalculable benefit both to denver and salt lake city it means the building of 0 at least one transcontinental railroad through the central part of colorado the opening up to settlement and development of one of the largest and richest undeveloped territories that lie in the west As president fleming of the tunnel commission expressed it the result of the election assures the opening of the last great west it Is estimated that the denver salt lake railroad will be completed within the years allowed for or the construction st of the tunnel president newman erb Is now in loudon london completing the plans for financing the building of the railroad and the lat share of the tunnel construction |