Show Colorado is just awakening t tb o the fact that unless someone gets ets busy with the Moffat l road that hat state is about to be cut cutout out of f the natural benefits of a through drough road to Salt Sult Lake City ity In n fact Den Denver er is bec becoming ming very ery much disturbed over oper the situation and the Ute Denver Post of f last Saturday announces that unless the state takes immediate immedi- immedi ate te steps to bore the big tunnel through James' James peak ten Dener Denver Den- Den ver er per millionaires will take hold of f the matter push the tunnel through the continental divide dividend and nd complete the road to Zion CIty ity The thing thing- that is causing so much luch consternation in Denver is s that the Union Pacific is becoming be- be comin coming oming active in stretching its rails ails from a point on its present present pres- pres ent nt line liue through Wyoming to Salt Lake which would mean the tha be diverting of all of this tiis section to eastern and western vestern points an and leaving leaving- Colorado to the south receiving no benefits whatever from a territory which following natural natural natural nat nat- ural channels should bring important important im- im results to the centennial centennial centennial centen centen- nial state The Union Pacific railroad has las surveyed a line from sutter utter sutter in Wyoming to Craig Colo tapping tappin this empire of northwestern north western Colorado sa says s the he Denver Post If this line lines is s built built and and it is going to be he built it built it will drain all of northwestern northwestern northwestern north north- western Colorado and nd the Union Unon Un- Un ion on Pacific will then distribute its ts products to the West Vest by way of Ogden and nd to the I ast past by byway byway byway way of Omaha It will just be another mother great suction pipe that sucks from Colorado her resources resources resources re re- re- re sources for the benefit of the theLast Last East and the West Yest and for which Colorado will receive the minimum amount of profit t This countr country that the Moffat fat at road has been surveyed sur through h is one of the most fertile fertile fertile fer fer- fer- fer tile and productive areas of the known world world with with more coal i anthracite and than hari Pennsylvania more oil than Texas or California a as asgood asgood good fruit country as the Grand GrandI I Valley a farming farmin country county unsurpassed unsurpassed un un- surpassed in the world a cattle country from which come the finest cattle shipped to the eastern markets t With the Moffat r tunnel completed all of this comes through Colorado and through Denver Without the Moffat tunnel all of it goes out of Colorado and through Wyoming Wyom Wyom- Wyoming ing and the states east and west And naturally people buy where they sellA sellA sell A million people can live in perfect comfort and luxury over in northwestern Colorado One river there the Green flows feet wide and thirty feet deep enough deep enough water to irrigate miles square of territory This is as big as all eastern Col Colorado rado Just think of it The reclamation of northwestern northwestern northwestern north north- western Colorado is int infinitely more important to Denver Denyer than would be the reclamation of eastern Colorado because if eastern Colorado were all Under under under un un- der water a large portion of the products would go east This would also be true of northwestern northwestern northwestern north north- western and western Colorado with the completion of the Moffat l road the products would naturally go east but by way of Den Denver veri Ten cents on each ton of coal produced along the Moffat road and and for wJ which there is a tremendous tremendous tre tre- demand already already- would pay the interest on the bonds required to complete the Moffat r tunnel o With t the extension of this road and the completion of the Moffat tunnel many thousands of land seekers would be attracted attracted attracted at at- to Colorado who are arenow arenow now going into Washington ton and Oregon on the northwest and Arizona and California on the southwest st st. Do you jou know what makes make a country prosperous New railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads and new people people and and that thatis is what the people of f the northwest northwest northwest north north- west and the southwest have and that is is what Colorado has not had and which it has an opportunity of having haying now if I the tunnel is is' built |