| Show MOFFAT MAIN LINE OR b BRANCH TO VERNAL newman erb and nd associates making enquiries to nature of country that would be encountered from croon creen river ray horn who recently returned from denner denier and who met newman erb and associates of the moffat road secured a great deal of information which will ia be of interest engineer blauvelt who has made a report on this basin tor for the is due here this thia month if 11 ho he returns from now new york in time lie ile has purchased two automobiles for use along the surey and in the near fuluio the people zoay may expect to see him often and perhaps mr air erb han belf la in an interview with a representative of the express mr horn said maid the people of denver and in tact fact ot the whole state elate of colorado are at last aw awake ake to the ft fact that between the and the wasatch moui hibb nearly isearl a million aud and one half acres of the finest farm lands in the country are just being brought under irrigation denver la is anxious to claim this great territory commercially merci ally as her own and to do it ahe must hae direct communication with N ith it by rail if this were the only reason for De beners Don vers ners interest in the moffat road it would be sufficient to justify the lity city for two thirds the j oat dot of the proposed tunnel but for deriver denver there is a greater reason why the tunnel should be built today the metro polls polis of the rocky mountain region 16 on a side track as far as transcontinental tin tinen Lal travel Is ia concerned only one tourist in ten ever sees denier demer the boring of the moffat tunnel and the building of the moffat road to salt bait lake will not only put pui deriver denver on n a transcontinental line but on ica 1 shortest line from coast to coast ta by a couple of hundred miles and with public sentiment lined up solid back of the business interests the thing is as good as accomplished there is nothing to the talk of the dotsero dottero cut oft off being used after the tunnel is built for one thing denver will not stand for it and a clause providing tor for the completion of the moffat road to salt lake will undoubted be made a part of the tunnel agreement another thing is the attitude of newman neman erb and aad his associates shows that they are really interested in the development of the country between steamboat cpr springs I 1 and salt lake chief Engl engineer neer blau velt has just prepared pre pird and submitted to the new york bankers who are financing the moffat road A lengthy report many pages of which were do de voted 4 to the resources of the uintah basin and the tonnage that would be available here in the first co couple uple jears cars of the roads operation mr erb himself enquired as to the location of vernal relative to the sur eur N e ed line hue of the road and of oc the nature of the country that would be encountered in building a branch to vernal several parties aho accompanied mr eib from the east asked for all available information in regard to the uintah basin and promised to be b in here early in the spring for the purpose of making aiom bome investments parties whose connection with the moffit road gives weight to their statement said that before the grade to craig is half completed contracts will mill be let for all work to the utah line mr blauert Blau elt stated that if he pot got back from his nov new I 1 ork trip in time he would be in the uintah basin n before december 15 other wise he would wait until spring ile he also stated that mr air erb had bad ad lad him to purchase haae wo two automobiles for use in this country reports are that the union pacific is delivering ties and rails by the train load to wamsutter sutter wyo and that the pro eastern people are making all preparations to begin work in the string erring it if these reports mean nothing more they will serve the purpose of keeping denner denier alive on the tunnel proposition for denver is determined to haie hae the first connections with this territory on the other hand conrad 8 taylor promoter of the grand valley meeker salt lake road is confident that his line will be the first to enter the uintah basin mr taylor has the backing of pittsburgh capitalists who were ere due in denver deaver FA lut last week to take over his provost pro tlona while the uintah railway people are not saying baying anything there are a number of people particularly around grand valley who will wager that the aba uintah will be the first road to cross green river the trip of orson adams and seven other grand junction bank bankers ore and traction men into the reservation three weeks ago undoubtedly has baa some come bearing on the consolidation of the grand junction and grand river valle rail road with the uintah and the extension into this country |
