Show ON TUNNEL Fort Forty Y Feet Feet of Strawberry Y Bore Has Already Alread Y Been Cam Completed p FORCE TO BE ENLARGED Quite Likely d Work WI Will He nc Continued Under Direction of or Go em I Engineers George L. L I J. engineer In chargo charge of a the Strawberry tunnel came carne up from flom the project last c evening and antI will tt III be he In the city for Cor a tt week cek Tho rho special J purpose of or Dir Mr II visit at this time Is to purchase machinery to prosecute the work wort o of construction which Is now note going on his supervision No o o bids bid having been heen re- re re received CJ by hy the government o In t response to h Its adt ad for or them it t has b been cn decided to continuo continue the work until until until un un- til such uch time as us the government shall for bids Th This I. I will probably probably probably ably not be until next spring anyway ond and Inasmuch as the con construction work on nn the bl big Gunnison tunnel hap hag gone on so satisfactorily under the th- supervision on of o government engineers It t may be he decided to adopt the tamp ramp Ulan lInn In n the construction o of the Strawberry Strawberry Straw Straw- berry tunnel Tunnel in Forty ty hc Feel tl A force of 10 men Is s now at work worl ci cr the Strawberry ry tunnel and ha has entered cu en- en- en red te-red the mountain a distance of forty feet from the west portal Later when a n full force of men Is put to work the construction of the tunnel x will be he pro prosecuted from three points the the center the east ast and the west portals The wagon road load to tho rho east ea t portal Is not yet et finished although h but small strips o of it t remain to be he closed up Neither has the tel telephone phone system been Iem completed but hut this was due to dela delay clay In the shipment o n of twice The construction of camp houses tae has gone on very cr satisfactorily and thi he men ore are now note comfortably housed house foi ot their thell winter work This camp Is Js Isit at it et the west portal of the tunnel a one to be established establish cd at at al the ast tast portal when work wank shall begin here nere These will be model camps uch such as are arc hunt built at all similar shallot works wa ts un del the supervision of oC the rho got govern govern- ern- ern nent Only one snowstorm has been bean ex- ex at al the camp thus far al- al hough frost and Ice arc the regular at night According to Mr 11 Swen sen the day dayI are arc beautiful but but hea eavy blankets are arc among the most moll useful assets of oC o the camp after sun sun- down lown Ot tt sun sun-I |