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Show COLORADO'S CHEAT HEM PROJECT Prof. Swendsen of Geological Survey Talks of (rea Scheme. I'imI i i.-urs 1 Svvindsen of the Geological Geo-logical survey Is home from Colorado, where he spent a week or ten days looking look-ing over the great Gunnison tunnd project, pro-ject, a part of the great Irrigation system being installed by the Government at Montrose, Colo. Prof, Swendsen was enthusiastic en-thusiastic over the great work and talked Dtertalnlngly of It yesterday afternoon Pleased With the Progress. ' was more than pleased with the prog-real prog-real that Is being made on the tunnel, ' In al.l "They are driving on It from three directions, from either end, and th n a shaft has been run near the center of the mountain to the tunnel level, and workmen are driving from that point to connect with the force of men who are Bceklng the heart of the miKh'v mass of earth and granite throdgh which the tunnel tun-nel is to pass. Prom one end the tunnel has been driven a distance of a mile Into the mountain and from the other end a I. out 2Sl0 feet. It Is to be, when completed, com-pleted, about six nill.s loiiK. and it will probably be three or four years before the work Is completed. Timbering' the Tunnel 'The method of timbering the tunnel has been changf.l slightly and there is n. w no iiui'-r of a recurrence of a . ve-ln ve-ln such as took place a few months ago. One feels as safe within the big tunnel B( In lit?" own office, and the thought of a cave-In never occurs to one. even ti ne.li Ii-- might spend hours each day watching the men at the work of con itruction. An Interesting Camp ,"And what an interesting camp the thousand or more workmen employed on the tunnel make' Thtre are two camps, one at either end of the tunnel, and there the men live with their wives and families fami-lies Here are found small modern villages, vil-lages, with Improvements not often found Ir. villages of the size. All the houses have hot and cold water and electric llRhts. ai.d a telephone system extends over the ertlre tunnel system There are echool-h echool-h u' b lii both the camps for the children r,f the men who work on the tunnel, and the camps are a'toj-ether Ideal. Strawbeny Valley Project. "It was just as 1 left the tunnel one afternoon that i received official notiflca tli n thai the Strawberry project bad been approved ar,.l that the appropriation for the work had been made. Naturally, I was much pleased, although I had Information Infor-mation from private sources that this Was likely to be the case. Can't say now Just when the actual work of construction construc-tion will begin. I shall no down there Immediately Im-mediately after the first of the year and look the situation over. It Is very cold th.-re now nnd the camp would be located SOfnc twi nty miles from a railroad, so It Is likely that work will not commence until un-til after the weather becomes a little n.llder." |