Show HAVE NOT STOPPED work on moffat road Pro progressing progresso gressi nicely new camps I 1 rom the steamboat steam bout pilot the report of a few days ago that all the men had been pulled off from the construction work of the moffat road has haa proven to be wholly without foundation the facts are that instead of discontinuing w x ik on the grade some parts of the work were finished and the men were wera moved on to the other carnic the contract for grading near the state stale bridge on grand river was finished a few days ago and a new camp was started ou conger mesa outside of a small tunnel in gore canon the grade is ia practically completed and ready for the rails between Kr emmling and paynes ranch about four miles above mccoy A telephone message received in steamboat last thursday night from general manager W A deuel of the denver northwestern pacific railway company says that regular trains will be running to the payne ranch by june 15 which date is 13 fifteen days sooner than they had given out some time ago does that look like they have abandoned the road S W nay who has the contract to furnish beef to the different grading camps and who has just arrived in steamboat from his headquarters near the state bridge reports that the camps campa all along the line are working full force and that there are at kast hast men at work in egeria egena canon alone that also looks like they have abandoned the road does it on oal oak creek a full force of men Is IB being worked under contractor phillips some of the sub contracts have been finished and new stations have been let there is absolutely nothing to the report that phillips had pulled off his hia men not a man has quit work on the contracts on oak creek it is true that the perry mine has closed down for a couple of months first because they were unable to pro cure mining timbers and second because they desh e to install some bome machinery in the mine beffie further operations As saon ae a the roads get good the machinery will be hauled in and development will be resumed at the mine in summing up the work on the moffat road readmit it is very gratifying to the residents of routt county to hear of the progress being made and the fact regu regular y ar trains will be running almost to mccoy in less than three months |