Show Denver Votes to Help Build Moffat Tunnel net neti i Amendment to Ch Charter Carries by More rh Than n an I Eight i Thousand Majority w D Denver n ncr cr i-I i May ny 21 On On i On returns i of yesterdays yesterday's from I pout one third of th tho precincts of f Denver er city and count county it is generally conceded that the proposal submitted to the voters vot- vot hs ers rs to authorize a n commission sion te in to investigate in and submit a plan f for r boring a n r railroad tunnel through J James peak penk was car- car tied ild The Moffat tunnel amendment amend amend- ment opens a way for the borill boring bor bor- ill ing of the tunnel through I James nines Peak and the thc consequent opening up of hundreds lr ds of thousands of acres of rich agricultural agricultural agri- agri cultural and coal lands of Colorado Colo Colo- rado and Utah The people of Denver cr in the thc lection today h by a 3 majority at nt by Jesse ES Iteming chairman of tl tile tl ej e chamber of Commerce tunnel committee authorized a tunnel tun tuu- nel l commission whose it will be he to formulate plans for a alond 11 lond issue itsue which they will prepare prepare prepare pre pre- pare pare to submit to the vote of the people at another election The proposed tunnel will be- be aiti u hi just east of Toll th thirty live i J e from Denver cr It will b be be- tj 4 wiles miles in l length and its c construction con con- con I n- n will ill cost from 1000 to 1 l It IL will shorten short- short I I en the route from Denver to I Salt lt Lake City by sixty eight niles piles ns as figured by the Union Ja aside t c mileage and miles as IS by the cr Denver I Rio io Grande t tron ron route mute tc The fhe tunnel will vill he be owned by bythe bythe the city and COli county n tv of Denver Dell until such tinge time as the lien Denver vel- vel Salt Lake railroad pays the entire ot of of the thc bonds bonds' The fhe city retains the perpetual ri rights to in carry water and power v PO pow pow- er r through h t the tunnel Mr Nr Erb Erh will start work on one the the e approaches within thirty which means meatus t that at in six I the workers on this I I project will he be inside and shelt sheltered sheltered shel shel- t from the winter weather The he co completion mple on of the the tunnel and ci construction wor work wort of the Denver cr Salt Lake Dake railway railway tv will ill require the expendi expenditure of often i cen ten and twenty twenty- mili million million mil mil- i lion dollars This means the i of nearly that sum sumI sumin I I in C Colorado and Utah for maj mai material ma- ma j i 1 and labor n the completion of the I N Moffat tunnel the coal fields of I northwestern Colorado will be beI I brought in touch with Nevada Nc California nia and and nd Utah According to the United States Spates f fI I geological ecological survey suncy there is I nou gh h coal coni in this immense I tract to supply the entire United United Unit- Unit ed States for years ean f. f Confident that the proposition tion ion to bond bondi the city of Denver I for two two thirds of the cost cot of the peak penk tunnel tuune will ill carryl carry l at t tin the municipal election of lay ny y 20 Newman Erb Erh the f new cw president president o of the road is going ahead with plans to extend the thc theline line to Salt Lake Engineer- Engineer g rag corps have been put in the thed I I I f I ld id d t td to sl survey a n Ii line ne through n gb to the Mormon capital Mr I Erb dL declared lared on Oil his S last trip to Denver el that he hc would f go ahead with the line to Salt Lake immediately immediately immediately im im- imi i mediately upon the carey carrying of the election r V To Vile The formal transfer r of the Ui nver Di-nver n cr North Northwestern western Pacific ic Ie railroad oad J to the thc Denver el S Salt lt Lake railroad took place dace Fri Fri Fri- lay day All agents checked d up I and took inventory in The ne new v company is now in its control The transaction tion which includes des the execution of a mortgage of the Denver er Salt Lake company company com corn pany t to the Bankers' Bankers Trust company of New York has hns been recorded in the various arious coun- coun ties tics long along the line The mortgage tr ge securing the thc worth oj of year thirty gold old bonds covers all prop property of the comp company and and all rights and franchises The in instrument instrument tru ment t is signed sig by hy Newman Erb president of the thc com company pan II I. B. B Blanchard rd secretary and H H. B. B Towne for the thc Bankers' Bankers Trust company Jy Tile The document nt if is dated as as' as of May 1 1913 The instrument about pages covers ers all provisions pro and of th the mortgage e th the issuance is issuance is- is of the bonds au and all other details rela relating tin to the tran transaction action It is is' provided Jt J worth of the thc bonds may ma mabe be is issue issued issued is- is sue sued for forthe the acquisition of f property prop property prop prop- rop- rop erty orty and nd rig fits rights for t the extension exten sion of- of the of-the f the ron road to Salt Lake Lali City Utah Provision PrO is also made under tinder this clause for the completion of f the extension now under way froth from Steamboat Springs to to Craig N Another Another provision is for the of par value alue bonds to he be applied to the driving driving ing of th the proposed tunnel through the contin continental divide under or th through rough James peak penk The sum of is set aside e for improvements i t tp p o bett betterments betterments better better- r- r ments etc including terminals als depots equipment and such stich as rolling stock It is provided pi in the thc mortgage that the principal sh shall be paid by May 1 1 1943 The he conditions I under which default takes I place as respects the payment of interest is also set forth in detail Service on the road is being heng I improved cd in order to prepare for the thc tourist t business and the naturally accelerated summer traffic The Tune tourist season will with open pen formally tomorrow I observation ohse p parlor cn cars s on regular regular reg reg- ular trains Nos 1 and 2 and andI I upon summer trains 5 and 6 G which will be he inaugurated forthe forthe for forthe the season at nt that time The latter trains will be operated only to Arrow and return to Denver each ach da lay A A. cafe car will wil be a f feature of bf the service on these trains Delivery of or rails Vails for the extension extension ex ex- tension ton Steamboat to Craig aig- aig will b beS I in two months by the Colorado Fuel Iron company company The Che work vork of grading is getting ong n air nicely I 1 although it is a hard problem to keep enough h men However however How JIow- ever it is instill still hoped to h hove he e ethe the line in operation to to Craig by November 1 Hoyden Hayden and I d Cram Craig are feeling the impetus lt s 's of Development se and nud arc are taking die n a an nn n air of prosperity Shon hont L j Il t t s |