Show TUNNEL CELEBRATION AT THE WEST PORTAL Thousands Will be on Colo- Colo tl tj 4 f rado Day August First En FIrst Eniti En- En iti 3 Selected Members i L of Commission TIc Re I The Moffat tunnel celebration to tobe f be held at the west portal August J first Colorado day will be je attended I by thousands of people from Crom Colorado Colo- Colo v rado and nd Utah The Uintah basin will send Bend a large representation AugUst f first is the date dat set for Cot work to begin on 1 the pilot tunnel which is to be eight feet sql square ar Actual boring on the main tunnel can not begin until the electric power is Installed which will wll be beabout beabout beabout about the middle of October A contract contract contract con con- tract has just been made with the Colorado Power company for Cor the electric power to operate the drills It calls for Cor the construction of approximately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately twenty-one twenty miles of power line to both portals of the tunnel and tho the necessary transformers transform transform- ers rs at an estimated cost of or The Tho construction cost will wUl be advanced advanced ad ad- I ad-I by the commission and will willbe willbe Willi be returned to the commission by bythe bythe bythe the company in twenty per cent In- In Installments over a period o of five mouths months The net result will be that the cost of or the power line will be borne by the power company The Tho lowest wholesale power rates prescribed pre pro prescribed scribed by the state utilities commission commission com corn mission will be charged the commIssion commission commission commis commIs- sion for forthe the electric current used in inthe inthe inthe the tunnel The power power line lino will be connected with the tile Boulder Doulder Shoshone and Idaho Springs stations thus Unimpaired d service at all times tithes Th Tho line will vill be lie berun run rt from ft n the Boulder station five miles above o Boulder in Boulder Doulder can carl yon n. n It will be taken over Magnolia Magno Magno- lia ha hill lull north of oC the South Boulder creek to the east cast portal of the tun tun- nel Thence it will wUl be carried di directly directly dl- dl over the hill and down to the western portal ortal July 10 there was an n election of members of the Moffat tunnel com corn mission All the members were unanimously re They Ther are Robinson Wilcox and Blayney Blaney east of the divide and Leckenby and Wheeler west of the divide This elected re-elected commission met in Den Den- ver immediately and selected R. R H. H Keays of oC New York as engineer en en- er- er erIn in charge of tunnel tion Mr Keays aws ws engineer in charge of the construction of th the McAdoo tunnel under the Hudson river New York City Immediately Immediate Immediate- ly after aCter the selection the engineer President Robinson and Secretary Leckenby of the commission left CorNew for Cor New York to sign the tho bonds which were wore printed In Denver and shipped I to New York in blank The officers of the tho commission will wUl sign them at atthe atthe atthe the office or of Grant and company and where the first wille will willbe willbe be e turned over to tho the commission Under the terms of the escrow agreement agree agree- ment an additional million dollars will be turned over each si six months ns RS the work progresses Robinson and Leckenby will not return to Colorado Col orado They ThoP are allowing themselves a week to tu sigh their names to the bonds of ot 1000 denomination each Then the they will take ship for Boston and go through the Hoosac tunnel at present the longest st in the United Status States Other places visited in q quest est st of Information and instruction instruction tf tion n will bo ho the tunnel 14 miles milos In ir length now being constructed constructed con con- in the Catskill mountains to bring a river a mountain range and make malte it Il a available for New A visit to th the Adirondacks to Washington and other points will willbe willbe be he made before returning to Colorado Colorado Colo Cob rado in lu three weeks or a month |