Show MOFFAT TUNNEL 15 NOW ASSURED PEOPLE OF DENVER AUTH orize A TUNNEL commission TO PREPARE BOND ISSUE work will cost over four million hlll llon dollars and will shorten the ro route te 1 from denver to salt la lake e by sixty eight miles denver coo the modal tunnel a amendment mon dment as s carried by the people of denver on monday opens a way for the boring of the tunnel through james peak and consequent open opening trill up of h hundreds of thousands of acres of rach fl h agricultural ural and coal lands of at colorado and utah tho the people of denver in the election on monday authorized a tunnel commission whose duty it will be to formulate pans p ans for a bond lewe issue which they will prepare to submit to the vote of the people at another election the tha proposed tunnel will commence just east of toll thirty five miles from denver it wll be 64 miles in length and its construction will cost from to it will shorten the route from denver to salt lake city by sixty anty eight mile miles s ns as fagu figured ed by the union pacific mileage and miles as by the denver deaver rio grande route the tunnel will be owned by the I 1 city and county of bf denvor denver until uch auch a time as the denver sat sa t lake railroad pays the entire amount oc at tb tho bonds tho city retains the perpetual rights to carry water and power through the tunnel |