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Show v USE OF MOFFAT TUNNEL ' MAKES SAVING OF .$ 839,000 The annual report of the Moffat road made June 1 shows that although al-though the Moffat road took in Ies3 money in 102S than in 1D27 the sav- i ing was such that the road had larger larg-er net earnings. Passenger, freight and mail revenues ail fell off a Utile, Ut-ile, Costs for removing snow, for -maintenance keeping up snow sheds fell off and also larger freight trains were run making cost of hauling freight less. 100COO tons freight hauled 'brought In $3,o-10,C00; tunnel tun-nel rental was figured at $347,000 !for the year. This is G and 2-3 per cent on $10,000,000. Cut aa tho tunnel cost over $15,000,000 this does not pay 2-3d on the full cq?t. ' The Moffat road is trying to es- ( tablish the validity of tkeir contract with the tunnel commission ar.d tho ! commission is trying to make tho road pay more rental so as to the taxes the tunnel district. ' During the past two years much, wcrk has been done on the roadbed of the Moffat road and the past year $-i'o,CA were spent in improvements improve-ments In til:; , - |