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Show UTAH-COLORADO ROUIEASSURED. EARLY START ON WORK OF CONSTRUCTION CON-STRUCTION IS ASSURED; CONTRACT CON-TRACT TO BE AWARDED SOON Governor Shoup of Colorado Affixes Signature to Measure Appropriating $6,000,000 for Big Bore Through Mountain Range Denver, Colo. Governor Ollvor R, Shoup of Colorado signed the Moffat tunnel bill at 10 o'clock Friday morning morn-ing . The governor left immediately for Washington D. C, and upon his return to Denver he will appoint the five members of the board of tunnel commissioners. com-missioners. Immediately after their appointment the five commissioners will meet nnd lay plans for awarding tho contract to bore the tunnel. The actual work of breaking the ground at the portals of the tunnel should ben about August 1. The bill recently passed both houses of the Colorado legislature with overwhelming over-whelming cftijorities. It was sent to the governor following its final passage pas-sage April 30. The governor decided to wait for the legal opinion regarding the constitutionality of the bill before be-fore signing it. With this to hand with the statement that it was constitutional, con-stitutional, the governor affixed his signature and the bill became law. Under the terms of the bill, 56,000 000 will be spent in constructing a tunnel six miles in length through the Continental Divide, near the foot of James peak, which will link a vast area in northwestern Colorado with Denver and shorten the distance between be-tween Denver and Salt Lake City. |