| Show another trunk line lou looms for salt lake city kivel ff 1118 8 bri M ON COWLE TION 07 TUNNEL I 1 instant transcontinental transportation transport C por port atlon tation developments Indi indicate date a 4 more direct line from denver to the pacific coast as the moffat tunnel nears completion making it almost certain that the uintah basin basla link between denver and salt lake will ba built in the opinion ot at E A az ar managing editor at 0 sunset Maga magazine who arrived in 4 salt lake friday of last week from the east he lie said that denver deaver sen ciment la Is crystallizing rapidly for an extension beona the present terminus t of at the moffat road at craig colo to tap the rich territory of at northeastern north eastern utah which would mean the building of the salt lake and denver railroad furnishing a moe mo e direct line between the two citino and an important ink link in 1 a new and shorter transcontinental eye 1 tern tent lie ile added that because of at the fact act that the burlington road I 1 prominently mentioned as seeking a new now outlet to the roast coast kansas city ie ls becoming equally interested with dener denver and it portends a gigantic merger which will open the uintah basin and put salt lake on ano another trunk line mr who la to widely known in salt lake by reason ot at having been at one time managing editor of the telegram is just A completing a wide awing owing through the middle west and south ti it preparation of an article on tt moffat tunnel and its significant for bis his magazine now declared ti to be one of the leading periodicals ot at the west ahead of schedule tho the moffat tunnel la Is six months ahead of its schedule and will be a completed by january 1 1927 he said the contractors are rushing the work since they will receive a bonus ot of 1000 a ulay tor for every lay day they beat their contract time ebata a all right with ith them anil and all right with th people ot of denver and the metat I 1 anel district organization because the sooner the he tunnel la Is completed the quicker the benefits will mill start to how flow denver wants that water supply at 0 acre feet that will kill be taken ironi front the arar and brought through the tunnel from the west t gido ide 1 of the into denver s since ince the fraier frazer la Is an upper tributary I 1 of the colorado river they want that water batore the colorado river question becomes more acute 3 they are working from both ends of the tunnel and the workers are now a mile apart in the heart of jams james peak two bores are being run simultaneously eight feet square one at 0 which will be the water tunnel this water tunnel will be completed by august 1 fight hundred men are working and although the other bore which will carry the rails will be sixteen feet high it is estimated that this can be widened from the eight feet and ba be finished by the first of the year unless unusual difficulties intervene they did tap a glacier lake that came down from the top ot of ane mountain which for a time flooded them out but this Is now under control with the water draining training out the east portal |
