Show an to 10 denver charier i moffat tunnel ordinance can now be submitted to tax fox paying voters Voter of queen city of the pla plains 0 t U nver noted in favor of tho the nm am nent to the charter of ili the city 13 binl nd county providing for ft a bond la Is guv BU to aid in constructing the alof tat tai tunnel through th the main ol of the rocky mountains aho 1 I lie election fath nh one or of unusual latoi cst to the people of the vin tab babin for the reason a bond la Is sue vill hasten ha the building of the bow boio through lamet janos la met peak and that means an early completion of tho the moffat road tram from to salt lake through the richest and moat dost exton she sho undeveloped territory in tao west A railroad will bo be the brill atlon of this country the people hero have talked and dreamed of the 1114 coming of a road for the last quarter of a century and it really be birus to look as a if the will come me true the election wao ai held on an may 20 and very soon after the tha polls closed eager inquiries were mahe for or newa nea though nothing def enite was aaa learned ono one telegram came during the evening stating that a hoovy heavy ioto oto had been polled against the proposition wednesday at noon nothing had been beard and not un till la in tho the afternoon was there in formation one way may or the other A ines message sage cani cania a from dragon to the offset effect that some ono one had seen awn an item in a grand junction paper that the ho proposition had bad been carried then the ashley coop co op received a message from the morey mercantile company in denver deaver that the around amand quent hod had been passed tunnel bond proposition position does doea not scent eem to be thoroughly understood by the people according to tile the best information to be obtained b a of the vernal venial express the election last tuesday only paves the way for a bond 1 is mie line tille harter charter of the catl fit and county of denver prohibits a bonded indebtedness Indebted niss for tile the pur poso pose of money oualdo tile limits of sold said city and county the amendment as aa adopted makes maken pro villous for buch bonded indebted tiesa jims the commissioners elected will now submit an ordinance to tile the tax paying botero of the city and county and they the tax paying voters will decide whether they do de sho a bond last nn all elec tion was held ini in denver deliver tor for tho the pur pow of dot eming whether vb ethor that citey should adopt the commis ision boim of government or the chartoc con bention plan the bitorin lorm aon ou b a oto oti of to tio to one this commissi cla forro form will ill take lake of feit the first of this coming coaling june abin tho the present mayor and other cit officials vl ill give five nay to the c om miss loners elected last tue abday soon after tho the election of last ain ui tt the moffat tunnel juanel amendment vas as trailed and initiated the peti tons tonit signal by about 0 o tho the building of the tunnel by uie the terms of the initiated ordinance awl ft 14 1 entrusted to a commission of three mom members bers whose term of office shall to be sit elx bears eats and mho shall eriv without except for their actual epen fis joseph 0 helm attorney for the moffat estate charles inana gei of the blaher stoics and josap J p Fl quing lanker and buld cr constitute the commis tor for tile first tonn terin at tie the expiration of torm term the commission shall bo be na as othar city officers oro are choan but in n tho the ebent that tho the tunnel la Is not completed within 03 alx lx bears ears the of it shall hall devolve upon the board of public works all rights rc garding the use of tho the tunnel for the of water or ore are reserved la in perpetuity of the city of the tone or isalo of the ibe tunnel for railroad fr pir pos posit the iu 18 to make such euch In lations ns na may lie be necessary to 10 do de iwahei Iw it la Is advisable for tile the city to upon tho the construe tion of the tunal to study tho the eni conditions make of last and kindled subjects tB anti ana if it Is dee ineil cioper to build tho the tun nel IKI determine the amount of bonds to be leaned issued fix tl the rate of interest thereon anti and submit to tho taxpaying electors ele clora an all ordinance on the question 04 ot of whether hether oi 01 not the city shall bond itself tho city council and other officers are required to take such ruch action UH am shall make the bho bond issue perfect the proposed tunnel will hill cost coat op ap proximately mining ngen wre haie ae expressed the bellet belief that sufficient gold and silver will be ba from ore encountered in tho the tunnel to pay for or its cost coot and give domer denor a big revenue if built it will become part of tho the railroad project moffet undertook ten years BRO ago and into which he put more than 98 8 of his own money only to dlo die bordorf bor orf his amb ambition I 1 don was recalled real led A little more than a year otter after his death the road ft cut into bankruptcy northwestern pact fic the name by which the moffat road va mas known has been re organ led by nowman newman erb and a syndi cato of now new york and english cap italics under the kanip of the don ler er salt lake company erb and libi his associates have lia naked asked demer to operate cooperate co ith thorn them in putting through thio tho the project aa abig anally planned b moffat they lime 1191 aggio to pay IMY on othild of tile the tot cost of the be tunnel if denver will under trite its roust motion and to finish tile labroad lal road to salt laholt it no nov ands miida at miles vest of denver the tunnel under this plan la IB to le ie the he property pio perty or of the city until it Is foi all its expenditures the 8 agrees to deposit posit 1 l in cash before the ct issues any barida this deposit Is to b be considered ay as option mone put up ui to insure tile tho pur chiso of the tunnel ly by the dio railroad tile the miner ini il claims which inai maa bo be penetrated by bv the tunnel are to ie ic main all the prop eit ot of the city don den tj i Is also to it tain rights to bring lor for municipal purposes oes and through the tunnel if the cit builds the tunnel it will toe be lome come one of tho the famosa of the he kind ol of the world it hlll be constructed foot feet reft bea level and will mill be tia hix und and n frac fraction miles long ions water run icing from the vicinity of cf the orn ern portal will drain into Atlan atlantic tit gatei from tile the western portal will empty into the pacific the kite of the tunnel Is under tho der of janie james peak thirty the fhe miles et of denver ton ten thousand men hlll be employed d on oil it tho the ind associated projects all railroads desiring the pahi lego lege will be granted the right to operate trains through the tunnel rhe denver deliver salt lake railroad by using the tunnel will ill ime have a rout kllc shorter between denver and salt lak city than the present distance stanco dl by the denver deaver rio orande grande and niety eight miles hort abort er than by the 0 union pacific the atio louta joule wll Aill lopa up a ln territory greater than the hie of now new york ago david 11 moffat took a map of colorado laid a ruler it and marked tile the route rout tor for a now new railroad to go darf directly etly west arm don er lie he told the engineers that it if IL a mountain stood in the way for them to go through it then lio lie began to build it skirted the foothills west ost of denver and then literally went through the mountains avei the top of the ho range thero there oro ore thirty eight tunnels brhen in the first fifty miles it reached perpetu tal nl snow at corona feet above sea koon the highest point in the world reached by A a standard guage ralli oad moll it started down the western slope towards the pacific wall ought fought mattat but be h kept building lie sold hla his holdings in mining companies traction lines banks and public utilities so as aa to get money more than tha WO went that wai wa and still his dream was unfulfilled two years ago he wont went to now york in a final effort to baloo ra money thoro there among dinong strangers str angera ho he died |