Show I m J 0 Ho r j A M. M I. I t I II I. I tJ J. J i Y t r. r Ht I 1 L I 11 1 1 From Colliers Collier's v tour Four and ald a lH half lf ye years rs of digging g I a and nd blasting blasting ended a a l. l fold few fOw weeks weel a dio io o when l the great eat railway tunnel through t thc tiie I mountains west of Denver was cut cuL through Track Is now being laid for fOI g and before long trains trains train will wm be bo running through the longest st tunnel in the United states Stales mal make It was a splendid dream to cheap and safe the path of everyday railroading through through the Conti Continental Divide over which trains could only part of or the year David Moffat I Iwho who started it did not live to see soo its its I ion completion but here it is practically practical practical- ly y completed a and nd ready to servey servo serve I mankind There are miles of railroad l yet et to build to Salt Lake Lal through h t the he marvelous Ui Uintah tah valley that is it itself elf aln almost o an n ne e empire PI ono ol d of tAo tho I biggest bigg st st. lic richest s sections I S of ul liis United Unit Unit- Unit United ed cd St States t s as as J yet t untouched 1 ich c I by DY st d' d rails f. f American Amel railroading is P partly a a matter maHer for cold calculating e I Ian yan an machine adding story of oC receipts amend and expenditures o or a and d loss j o of freight tonnage and alit ton mule costs costs But it is is' minutely Infinitely more It It is the r pioneer pIoneer urge the Columbus Drake Leif Magellan Ericson spirit of adventure adventure ad ad- venture that counts a profit in finding find find- find finding ing a new world for others to enjoy though lOugh ones one's own life lifo be bo the price Dav David IId Id Moffat 1 didn't really need toi to i see tha locomotive locomotive smoke O t trailing out of the side mountain-side tunnel and aud down the fertile valley He found his reward in time the coura courage e to start the job and the faith to believe that it would carry on |