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Show MOFFAT RAILWAY INDEPENDENT Line to Be Built Into Provo As Soon As It Can Be Properly Financed. New York. Sept 21. -David H. Moffat, Mof-fat, who Is in New York on business ; connected with the Denver Union j Water company, and the Denver, I Nortwestevn & Pacific railway, says that as soon as financial a range mem s J can be made tho railroad will be com-' com-' pletc-d to Salt Lake City and the tun-j tun-j nel constructed through the contl ' nental divide. j Any arrangements that Mr. Moffat enters Into for securing capital for the completion of the road will In- elude the flnanclug of the tunnel con-I con-I structlon and the laying of a branch line to connect with the Denver & Rio Grande at Dotsero. about seventy-five seventy-five miles northwest of Ix-advlHe. At present the road is completed to Steamboat Springs, 210 miles from Denver. Its cost. Including equipment, equip-ment, was approximately $13,000,000, or about $60,000 a mile Cost of construction con-struction the remaining 300 miles will bo about half that per mile, as there are no more mountains to cross The surveys have all been completed to Provo, the route following down tho Bear river valley In northwestern Colorado and up the Dnchesna valley in Utah. Mr. Moffat exjects to arrange ar-range for trackage rights from Provo into Salt Lake City. The cost of tho tunnel has been estimated at between $5,0011,000 and $6,000,000. j "This Is the greatest railroad prop-1 prop-1 ositlon In the world today," said Mr. Moffat. An one who talks with him about It can see that he has an ambi- tlon to cany it to completion. ! He also realizes that his road will ! be of great value as a connecting link across the backbone of the continent ! for some of the large systems. ! ' You can sav that the road has no ' entangling alliance or agreements j with any trunk Hue." he said. "If I I should part with it after it is romplet-I romplet-I ed. I would rather It would bo to eith j er the Rock Island or the Builingtoii," |