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Show MOFFAT ROAD WILL NOW BE RUSHED Directors Hare Appropriated $5,300,-000 $5,300,-000 Additional for Immediate Construction Purposes. V At a special meeting ft the directors of the Moffat short line, held In Denver Saturday afternoon, an appropriation of $3,300,000 was made for additional construction. con-struction. The appropriation covers the driving of a tunnel through the main range, under James peak and the construction of a temporary air line over the range until the two-mile tunnel is open. ; The directors will put 3000 men to work In addition to the large crews now engaged en-gaged on the road. These will work In nve sections. The surveyors are running the line westward west-ward toward Utah as rapidly as possible. The contracts now being carried out os the forty-seven miles of track between Utah Junction and Rolllnsville, represent an appropriation of more than $3,(w0,000. |