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Show IS TWO TUNNELS POSSIBLE FOE ELECTRIC EXTENSION In their preliminary surveys below Draper the engineers of tho Utah Light &. Rallwav have found It feasible lo make a low grade lino without any heavy cur-I cur-I vature by boring two tunnels In the slopes of Point Mountain several hundred hun-dred feet below the present summit or the Salt Lake Route. Tnese tunnels would be very short and each would f come out on the doop arroya, their por- L - tals to be connected by a straight II trestle. If tho ground is of tho same II gravel formation they would have to bo U open cuts, but In either case a very low u grade line would be accomplished from Draper to Lohl. It would cross overhead 11 the gravel spur of the Rio Grande. |