Show MOFFAT TUNNEL LOCATION Present day engineers are as good or better than those in former days and Colorado engineers are as good goodas as any in the country d declares clares the Pilot Yet the people of the Moffat Tunnel district who are pledging their wealth to the of millions of dollars to construct a tunnel through the main range nave have right to know that the m money ney is being expended in the time right place Many people quite honestly have the thel l idea ea that because work is starting without delay that perhaps sufficient investigation has hits not been made and that chat it may develop later that the tunnel could been built cheaper or oro 10 Io o better advantage Tn in some other lo- lo lo cation cration A hole through ithe the mountain mountain mountain moun moun- moun- moun tain in the wrong place would would would-be be beabout beabout about the most useless thing in the world It would be a criminal waste of money Notwithstanding all you may have heard or what fault finders may stay say sayIn In th the future the James peak location location location loca loca- tion has been known to engineers for more than 50 years as us the most favorable site in hundreds of miles of mountain barriers Way back in 1867 when the first transcontinental railroad was seeking seeking seeking seek seek- ing its way across the country in investigation investigation investigation in- in showed the James peak hogback as the best route through the continental divide The directors of the Union Pacific railroad chose the low pass at Sherman hill in Wyoming where the range drops to toa toa toa a very low altitude instead of this pass They were probably right in that because they were not considering consider consider- ing local interests Again years later the Burlington had engineers in the Ithe field for a along tong long time seeking the best way to break breal through the barrier and its engineers chose the time James peak pea route Then Mr Moffat 1 put his engineers in the field and their con- con tallied with th those se wh who had made the time previous investigations His engineers headed by Maj Blauvelt made a complete survey of the tunnel tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel spending two years in investigations investigations investigations and the time final survey So It happens that when the time tunnel tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel district finally is in shape to begin begin begin be be- gin actual construction they are fortunate to be able to acquire without without without with with- out cost information data and surveys surveys surveys sur sur- veys that have hav taken many years and thousands of dollars In money moner To look further would mean a waste of time and money James pea peak has been decided upon by all engineers who have investigated the range since 1867 Complete and detailed surveys have been made and are in possession of the commission Major Blauvelt who has been made chiet engineer because of his original l survey survey survey sur sur- vey of the tunnel and his familiarity with the territory has knowledge which would have taken talen another engineer engineer engineer en en- months ito acquire He has called to his assistance Engineer Kauffman and others who were associated associated associated as as- with him on on the time original and who are able quickly to get things in shape for Cor work No undertaking of similar magnitude magnitude magnitude magni magni- tude in the history of th the world will willbe willbe willbe be able so quickly and so intelligently intelligent intelligent- ly to get actual construction under underway way for the preliminary work is completed and at hand Under all these circumstances there should be no further agitation and no further doubts that the tunnel tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel is being built exactly where the ithe best engineering scle science ce for more than a half century says says it should be built 0 n- n |