Show HAS 20 MINUTES MINUTE S SUNSHINE i 1 shines There In is Colorado a busy town where o of the fun I. I but 20 minutes out of each t hours This town is River POrtal tt 24 I is located In Gunnison ant an It canyon and t Is 4 the point from which I raison th the great c Gun c. tunnel was run that the w u Wat waters waters' of that river rs might be conducted the deserts beyond the tho to range The Gunnison canyon Ras 9 aa 1 steep and precipitous and o OL Po d great difficulties to the engineers Rho ho sought to divert its waters Th These engineers cut a road in the solid ro roof rot ro k of the canyons canyon's side and at the foot of that road planted a town This town was the headquarters for tor the spectacular engineering enterprise that they had in mind In the town lived the tho working force which wa wu driving tho the tunnel through the moon mOun- tain tam This This' town was perched upon the t p piece eco of ground at the foot of the great cliffs that r was most nearly level Even this spot however offered of- of I E an opportunity of placing the th dwellings only in In Inan an an irregular I wa way and one above the other Here In the mountains has existed for four years a busy little village with all the elements of ot modern civilization brought with it Into this Isolation In the picture Uncle Sams Sam's public school appears as the highest building In the right hand band background The strangest thing about this vII lage is the fact that It has but 2 20 minutes of sunshine every day This Is due to the precipitous walls that rise on each side of the stream and shut out the rays of the sun Thera Thelt is the brief period of 20 minutes between be be- tween 1120 and 1140 when the sun peeps over oyer the bluff on tho the one side of the stream and and- before Its rays have bave been cut off by the high cliffs on tho other side This one short span of or sunlight is all that these peo people le orthe of or the canyon get year In and year ear out oct Artificial light bills run high here bere |