Show MOFFAT TUNNEL iNNEL SHOT IS FIRED Will Strengthen Bonds Between Utah Sand and Colorado DE- DE DENVER DEVER VER Cob Colo Feb By 19 19 ByThe Tilt The Associated Press With Press With the tiring firing of ot the shot that tore away the last rock wall in the pioneer bore of ot the Moffat tunnel a IL long cherished hope of the states of ot Colo ColOrado Colo rado and Utah was realized realised ed The shot was WIlS lr fired d at at p m mountain time when President closed n a a telegraph key In Washington and sent the necessary electric Impulse Into the two hun hun- hundred hundred hundred dred pounds of placed in the thin wall ot or granite earlier In the day Completion of the plOn piOneer er tunnel will hasten the on on the railroad tunnel which parallels it and strengthen the so- so social so social cial and commercial bonds which link lick Colorado and Vials Utah together arlt aM open to development a 11 new In Inland land empire rich in coal minerals agricultural lands While the smoke yet filled the theair theair air Mrs R n M 1 en of Den Den- Denver Denver ver auditor tor for the tunnel commis commission sion slun mad made made her her ber way through the recently opened hole an an 1 met J K Brown Blown a 1 west portal driller com corn comIng cornIng coming ing through Mrs Van Yan Duesen was the first woman and Drown Crown the man ever eer to lo walk under the continental divide more than a mile below Its Ita top Much remains to be done be- be before be before fore foro trains can be run through the railroad bore which will be six anti one halt miles long It Is ex- ex ex exported ported however that railroad ser ser- ser service Ie vice through the tunnel will begin some time In July |