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Show BIG LOAN SOUGH! 10 BUILD TUNNEL RECEIVER DESIRES TO COMPLETE RAILWAY LINE INTO UINTA BAS.N, UTAH; ASKS LOAN Fifty Billion Tons of Bituminoius Coal Will Be Brought Forth By Completion of Proposed Road Building Washington, The Denver & Sail Lake Railroad company applied Monday Mon-day to the Interstate commerce com-mission com-mission folr a government loan of $6,-500,000 $6,-500,000 with which to construct a tunnel tun-nel sis miles long on a portion of the j road about 170 miles west of Denver. The receivers of the Denver & Salt Lake railroad, in arguing for grant of the loan, declared the proposed tunnel tun-nel would eliminate "grave and serious difficulties" which they now have to face in operating the railroad, which climbs to 11,600 feet above sea level. The tunnel would alloiw them to reduce re-duce the highest elevation on the railroad rail-road to 9190 feet, and would eliminate twenty-seven miles of 4 per cent grade over which their locomotives now have to climb in winter with rotary snofw-plows snofw-plows in front every day to maintain operations. If the money is granted, the receivers re-ceivers added, the line can be completed comple-ted to its projected terminus at Salt Lake City, and a coal field estimated to contain 50,000,000,000 tans of bituminous bitumin-ous coal can be adequately served. The receivers estimated that the lower low-er operating charges and the increased efficiency attained by a long tunnal at the summit would result immediately In an increase of 200 per cent In the traffic. Also a very large area of Colorado Colo-rado now without railroad service, and much of it government land, the application appli-cation said, would be made ava'labk for settlement. Red Cross Spends Millions Washington The American Bed Cross spent $9,782,000 last year in assisting as-sisting disabled world war veterans, John Barton Payne, national chairman-of chairman-of that organization, has announced. The principal service rendered was In putting the disabled in effective relation rela-tion with the proper government agency in ori!er to help them obta'.i that which they are entitled to from the federal government. |