| Show I AT ROAD I liKELY JO 10 BE RUSHED SOON Tunnel Company Calls a Meeting for Early in October October October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober in Denver WORK TO BE TAKEN TAREN UP WHERE LEFT OFF Will Mean Shortening of Distance and Time to Salt LaKe Lale tho the numerous setbacks of tho Continental Tunnel company which was t formed to build a tunnel under James I peak in Colorado for tho the use of the Moffat railroad it is to be bo continued in iu existence and may yet build tho the great cat Moffat tunnel A notice has been sent out announcing a meeting me of the company com corn pany to bo be hel held in October for the purpose purpose pur pur- pose pOle of electing officers and placing tho the company in tho the field again Tho The company which was formed principally princ prin prin- c by Herbert George was on tho the ver verge e of beginning work on the great milo mile tunnel under James peak when the financial stringency camo came acro across the country an and swept n tho the company into the gutter utter so to speak From Prom that time until tho thu present it has been heen dormant except for an occasional effort to raise and start n again ain But now lOW comes the announcement that it is is to be reorganized reorganized n- n hed and 11 is to go o after tho the work of boring the tunnel a as soon loon as the money is raised which it is is expected will not note be e lon long from now The Tho Kama Karns tunneling machine people have been watching developments de' and may build the tunnel Br Dv means of ot this machine the foot eighteen ci hole holp it itis itis itis is said can cnn be drilled through h tho the base basc of tho the peak at a yer very rapid rate Building Cars Cart The tunnel is ia to be bo live five miles lon long and without equal either in length or size anywhere in iu 1 North orth or South America Amer Amer- ica It is to lessen the distance between be be- tween Salt Lake City and Denver nearly two twenty miles and anel will lessen the grade ab about ut tho the Tennessee Pass district district district dis dis- several degrees All AIl in all all it will Continued on p page 2 2 MOFFAT ROAD Continued from page pace 1 be considered one of or the most wonderful wonder wonder- ful feats of f railroading in history It will mark the tho introduction of the Karns tunneling machine into railroading railroad railroad- railroading in ing which will rill mean the tho advancing of the tho art of tunnel construction into twentieth century stylo The Moffat road is rapidly hurrying on toward this city cily while whilo in the shops the construction o of cars has be begun un The first coal car to be bo turned out out at the tho Utah junction is now standing in the Moffat railroad yards on Fifteenth street in Denver The Tho work of building building build build- ing the cars is bein being hurried most of the efforts in that lino Jino being the building of coal cars for use uee in the tracks in Routt county It is report reported d that E. E H. H Harriman and George J. J Gould aro are making overtures overtures overtures over over- tures to D. D lL IL Moffat for the use USG of his tracks from tho the outer end of Routt Boutt county into Denver Af After tor Its Iu Tracks Just what there is to this statement which is being discussed in in railroad circles cirdes cir dr- cir cir- des cles i is not known It is is rumored that tho Denver Rio Bio Grande Orando may build a connection from near Glenwood Springs Sprin to the we west t end ond of Gore Goro canyon to con con- with tho the Moffat line in order to claim daim some of the great eat amount of business bus bus- iness which will come from that section wi with the starting of of the tho Moffat o at trains The Union Pacific it is 15 said ald 18 is fl figuring rin on a a. connection with the Moffat road road also B By Br tho the running rennin of a branch lino from rom W Wyo o to Hayden it l is proposed that a connection can be e made Iru with the Moffat line The rhe new tracks are now within a snort short distance of the Oak Hills coal conI coalmines coalmines mines and it is said lid that within the next few weeks the shipping of coal from those mines will begin Tho The Oak Hills company is is controlled by br S. S M. M p Perry and other Denver capitalists capitalIst and it is said aid has secured a contract to furnish furnish fur fur- nish 1000 tons of coal a day b beginning January L 1 All AU of this wi will be hauled from the tho rich Routt Boutt county on tho the Moffat Moffat Moffat fat line |
