Show ROAD TO ft U N IN TUNNEL T construction of moffat line lm e bore will W TV i 11 help denver and rio grande that the building of the eo so call tailed tunnel will mean more to the denver and rio grande than to any other present or projected road in the vest la Is the opinion of well informed jattro id ta men says bunday aday s tribune that it ultimately will be owned whiled and ope operated by the gould interests Inte reeta also it au the opinion of these men the colorado legislature has passed a bill for state st ite aid in building this tunnel which will shorten the distance between denver and salt like cit as well as open up new territory the tile story of the tile late D david dmd md if moffat and his railroad career t Is a long one ho ile was as the tile biggest business anan in colorado long after he had balth enough to retire he projected Ld d a railroad line to run from denver to salt like city and then on to the pacific thu the bachers backers of the gould and harraman Harrl man interests te rests the only tio roads operating in the section of the country that the denver northwestern and pacific proposed proP obed to tnt r were opposed to an competition time and ind time again when mot lof tat fat thought that he lie had the finan clil backing bicking tor for his road roid he lie found himself blocked the new road was the ambition of his declining years he ile worked for it and died in the har harness riess in new nea lork ork city while trying to finance the road perhaps er as a tribute to his memory but more likely because lawmaker lawmakers foresaw the benefits which would come to colorado the legiel legislators of that state voted to build the tunnel ahe legis legislature liture provided in its bill that while the state would lend its aid and build the tunnel it sl should uld not be used exclusively by ani ans one railroad thus throwing it open to any road op operating crating in the west th that thit it might want to use it each road to pay the state for the use ue of f the til tunnel linel until the final bon bond d I 1 issue aue was wis pa paid d off NN when lien it would p pas piss iss into control of the r railroad comar tilea under certain restrictions strict ions the denver dener northwestern and pacific bet cr or known ah u the moffat it ro roid id Is now nov I 1 i operation from denver denvor to steamboat tt springs spring a dis of if a it little ovo a hundred and se bev eri unity ty miles the route rf ti 11 road roid from that nest eat v i u ah tl ti a no loa i oa I 1 coul I 1 be op e ri I 1 i i ll 11 I 1 lying tying b 14 on account i tf f it lh wilch bick and ind the heavy gaide gi ija M afat realized zed this and it a ho planned d for the six lilac iaal at it an in cost of over oer 6 ibis tunnel by the tile N ni i will nill be the longest in the united states stites nith lah the promised aid ald of the st to of colondo olo rido to build the tunnel an I 1 the issitt ince that any road that ninta to use ue it m may ty have the opportunity the denver and rio grande grinde Is retting getting busy on the tile proposition ion lon according to the information given glen out in this tit cit tuesday the P position 0 mitlon taken b bv those giving out the information la Is based on cert certain aln facts first the state of colorado Is behind the pr act to build the tunnel second the tunnel will ill be open pen to any tny road roid which aich may wish to use e it third the reent action jf tf the stockholders of the missouri pacific thit the goulda goulds have not lost control of their roads and tint thit they hive hwo h wo the backing of somo some ot of the biggest financial concern concerns of the states and europe fourth this till bicking means thit the gould will III have money to Ita all the lilies fifth thit those finin clil interests antei tata that ate bicklan bickl tiK the gould lines are not the same as its are bicking b the tile Hairl num lines and that it la Is to be a d fight to the finish for the tile ca control it of tile western estern tride ro the tile lay layman nitin tho the building of a tunnel through jamea james peak as an advantage to the denver and anti rio 1110 grande may not be grasped ut at once hut but there are settle facts 1 ahe I he line for the tile tunnel will leivo leave the main lino line of 0 the denver an all I 1 lic lichtle itle at a point mar orestod Ore 15 milea miles from front denver then conus conics the tunnel to dotsero dottero and anti then a water mater levo levil I grade of sven miles to connect with the main line of the denver ind RIO 1110 grande at a point tour four hundred milea miles from halt bait I 1 lake like city just what such a line would mean to the tile denver and I 1 illo tio grande and to the west rn pacific the other gould could line in the annest kiy bo be gained by the fol following loing facts the line oc of the denver and arid RIO 1110 grande between the capital city of colorado and salt like city la Is 74 1 miles the line of the tile union pacific and oregon short lino from denver to silt like city Is milea miles the survey of the moffat line from denver to salt lake city Is miles nith the tunnel and the new lines the line of the denver ind rio 1110 grande grinde would lie be milea miles just fifty miles more thin the proposed moffat road and anti thirty nine miles shorter than the Harrl min in lines between the two cities that the announcement of the harriman offic that thy would spend 75 in Impi ming n ing their lines in the wes west within the tile next five fhe e irs his Ms stirred up the gould interest there Is no question the next five eara ears promises to see a bittle batte of railroad giants in the NN est neither interest can afford to lose a toot of ground both havo have millions at stake and both will mill endeavor to protect their interests Inte reata and cri enlarge larbe their terri territory tor Run Ilu niora ioris hive irive been rife tor for some time tinie that the denver detner and klo RIO grande had oi 01 was as about to kc u a controlling interest in the road chest runic cr rr hive been denied from time to time until the deith death ot of moffat binco that time the only it thit hia has been officially announced 1 Is that jhc roid will be built as planned by the bill shiell lias has pissed the colorado legislature provides that it the he state builds the tunnel the road shill be cx extended on to S silt tit I 1 ake city or it line built to dotsero dottero it Is claimed by well ell informed rall roid men that even should the denvir ind and III 1110 gande gr ande own no in in the aloff moffit tt roid out of denver to the I it would bo be an e aisy isy matter to u for transfer of business over that road and the denver and illo 1110 grinde at the tile present time there 13 1 in arrangement between the denver ind hlo grande ind and the colorado chich alch is 1 said to operate to the benefit of both roads similar arrangements aej in existence bet wn many raids |