Show OVERLAND TRAINS TO ic GO 60 THRU TUNNEL Pacific Already d Considering Service ice Front From Coast Coat to t 0 s. s i sippi Sn Says s 's Gerald Hushes Hughes Hu hes i Denver Cl Attorney J f Through trains from San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco to the Mississippi river ray Dy jy way way i of the Moffat t tunnel and stud De Denver ner a ai- ai 1 ready are ale being pla planned b by the i Western Vestern Pacific railroad asserted Gerald Hughes prominent Denver i attorney speaking before the Ithe Denver Denver Philosophical society at t the e Ac Adams lams f hotel Denver Mr lr Hughes Hu who is I Y r the only ono one of the found founders ors of th tire tiie l Moffat railroad living is also one or oz ad f the roads road principal promoters He Be explained that the Denver Rio Grande Vest Western ern railroad and amI d it its s o i associates th the Western Vestern P Pacific anc and r f the Missouri Pacific railroads railroads' plan plan to uso use the tunnel no now bl being g drilled d through James peak when it is 0 t completed and expect thus to gain gala a lap on their co competitors the i Un t n ion Pacific and the Santa Fe rah rah- roads t i Will Cross Nation The Denver Rio Grande Western West Vest ern ern alone will save a a n oJ year by use of the tunnel and tho the i Dotsero cutoff the attorney tlc tlc- tic tic- i dared he had b been l. l told bYr by railroad men Denver will have a big day when I Ithe the first through train passe passes through the tho city he prophesied r At t present the Union Pacific and ancl Santa Fe railroads get most of the through passenger and freight tra I tic fie from California eastward tue Western Pacific being forced to carit carr carry car car- r ry it its share to Ogden Utah and there turn much of it over to its comI competitors competitors com corn I th the tho speaker said With t the c completion ot or tine the the Moffat tunnel t however the Western Pacific and amI L jj i the Denver and Rio Gr Grande nde Western L. L a will be part of the most direct f v c f transcontinental route he IlC added The Moffat railroads railroad's financiers r Mr II Hughes said always have been heen careful to keep the financial co control control con con- con con- J in the hands oi of Denver anu j Colorado men teen in order that the Ule Colorado Colorado Col Cot orado oracle public without whose s supPort support sup sup- supt p- p t i port the railroad and tunnel cou could r r bo ho b built i p not lose ton tonof never nevor ma may a n of ot traffic traffic or a single passenger r l l through t the he interference of c pet J. J t. t lug r railroads or Ol financial interests T j s Hughes declared I Te l th the t lou Ot acre feet of or water that will will- will wull be f 0 made be-made aan available ble to the Uw c Colora Colorado Colorado- lo io- io a I eastern slope to to- tobe toOn be even more more-in more I On Last Page Pa e. e 1 4 f. f 1 From P Pare Paaro roOn One 1 OVERLAND O TRAINS TRAIN'S TOi TO O t i GO THROUGH u TUNNEL I than th the railroad ad to the growth of Denver and and eastern Colo Colo- rado tatlo Tn o. o I The Tho attorney Indicated that ho lie had tat reliable Information that both I the Union Pacific and the Denver fc f fRio Rio Grande rande Western railroad chiefs plan to extend their lines h into to the Routt county coal fields and the tho western slope territory that are expected ex- ex ex expected t- t to be lie developed when the tho tunnel and the Moffat road are com cout- He asserted that Rout Routt county contains pore more coal oal than Pennsylvania and that the coal is of goo good l quality A large part of ot Mr Hughes' Hughes talk was devoted to the romance of 01 th the roads loads chief founder David H. H Mot Mot- Moffat fat tat and of his hopeless struggle gie against odds Mr Moffat spent 17 In building the road he said but bu preserved a calm undaunted un un- daunted exterior and unruffled led temper temper temper tem tem- per through all discouragements He died in March 1911 Others Benefited David H. H Moffat never made a a dollar declared Mr Hushes Hughes unless unless un- un less the of Color Colorado or some Colorado community made a thou thou- san sand Tho The tunnel now is about Hi per percent percent percent cent completed Mr r. Hughes stated Its time program is proceeding according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to schedule but owing to th the soft soR r rock ck at the lie west portal the I financial program Is short short about he lie said He said he expected expected ex ex- the tunnel to be completed Inthe In inthe f the fall of oC 1926 and anti that trains would be running through it before re Chr Christmas of that year 10 |