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A Tunnel Through The Mountains

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
June
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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.m vuyjiujj me luuowiug paragrapn frura tbe Denver J$mi wo havo only to say#that a people that can buildrailroads up tho Boulder or Clear Creek Cafion is competent to build tbo tunnel described, and that wo shall expect to go tbruugb it ono of these days : A 6chenih is now'on foot for running a i through the Eocky mountains. This may seeiu a prodigious enteprise at first to tlie casual reader, but the parties who have the natter in hand aro sanguine of the most complete suceess. For souie time past gentlemen have been in-' vestigating this matter, and they have airived at the conclusión that the project ie ieasible rh every particular. The idea is to tunnel the momitiuns IVoni a poiiit about one mile below Blaok Hawk to the Middle park, running in a '. ly uueetion. The tunnel to be run wil], ït is prosunied, out many rich veins of gold and siiver, and thus a grcat minug interest bo deváloped. Honey for the pioscculiuii of the work is furnishc-d üy English capitaligté, who are sanguine ot' the ultímate suceess of the enterprise Soma idea of the magnitude of the task' maiy bo gathered from the fa et that the tunnel, if completed, will be twelve miles m length. It is intended to niake it large enough to be used for railway purposes, and bo, if a road is ever to bo construoted to the Middls Park, it will iind lts most couveniuut route throuirh thu tunnel. ■vill be oalled the Sierra Madre Tunnel conipany, and the incorporation papers its organiza! ion have already 61ed. Grorgo Heaton, esq., a gentleman wel! niatiers of thig ■:.ns3 chai-ge of the ojx-rations oí the eon We hope the coaipnny will be uuuooessiul m eau ving out I , bore. It ■ y, be oneof the big)iflst things in the worid, and, if they eau it vork, wil! prova Haat man kuows no obstacle ïu nature. - Decorníiuu day was disgraced by a i ion from tho Ni] l&ent (o Brattleboro, Vt., and decorating the gravo uf " Col." James tisk. &

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Old News
Michigan Argus