Show Huge Moffat Tunnel Drilled by Workers Work s i FoJ David Moffat Spent Fortune For For- tune on Americas America's I Longest Bore Will Open Thousands of Acres of New Land WEST PORTAL Cob Colo Feb 12 United d Press Facts about the Moffat at tunnel Conceived by pioneers 20 years rears ago and named for David Moffat fhi who spent a fortune inspiring in- in spir ng Its completion Work Vork begun in September 1923 1023 FIfty cation-FIfty miles west or of Denver Seven hundred men employed ed NIne feet of lumber used Three billion pounds of rock ex- ex I ex-I cn I Two and one millIon pounds of d' d dynamite n I us used d. d i Seven miles mlles mlles' of- of drill of-drill holes reamed reamed i by use of pounds of drill steel I Record drilling in 30 d days days' ys' ys time 1583 feet LONGEST IN INU U S S. i Si long il 1 I oj M a u e l ca t. t gt 10 l sh shOrtens shOrtens' bi IH ad between Denver and and Salt Lake Uke C City t miles Is feet above sea level at Its lowest is two mlles miles underground underground under under- ground and reaches Its its its' greatest elevation mit t feet First railroad trains expected t 19 pass a s' s through through on July 20 DENVER Cob Colo Feb 12 United Press What the Moffat tunnel means to to Denver and the state It will op open n thousands of acres ot of school land and farming and coal oal countr country It win will give give an let inlet into 40 acres in Routt county and acres in county I It will give work worl to thousands lof of men It will add thousands of residents and millions of dollars to Denver and Colorado It will put Denver on a transcontinental transcontinental trans trans- continental line lt It will mean the growth of towns townson Ion on the western slope hitherto handicapped handicapped han han- by i tion |