The Glenwood post., 1911-02-25

commissioners and secretary shall be
thousand dollars ($2,000.O0) year,
and necessary travelling expenses; to
the Secretary, one thousand two hun
dred dollars ISL ,2OO.0O) year, payable
monthly. The duties of the construc-
tion engineer shall be to examine and
determine the amount and value of the
work done and to be done in said tun-
mel, and of material furnished or to pc
manent marks at each end of said tun-
mel, from which to determine the pro-
gress of work subsequently made, he
shall also determine by suitable notes,
marks or observations, the amount and
value of the work done in the excava,
tion of said tunnel and of the steel,
iron, electric appliances or other mater
ials used therein, and thereby fix data
from which to determine the value of
any work and material delivered sub
sequently to the date last named. 80
shall monthly after the first day Of
each month, estimate the proportion
which the work done in said tunnel
bears to the whole of the work and
material required to complete said tun-
mel, which he shall certify to the gov
ernor together with the amount of
bonds which the construction company
or companies may be entitled to under
the provisions of this act. Such
monthly estimates shall be based on
the construction of the tunnel of suit
able size for double track road bed
for railway purposes and to be operat-
ed by electric power, also for suit
able ditch or conduit to be constructed
through said tunnel, if deemed advis-
able so to do. The delivery of bonds
shall be at the rate of so many dollars
for each lineal foot of tunnel work, the
same to be fixed and agreed upon by
said tunnel commission, and the con-
struction company or companies agree
ing to do the work. The payment for
said work shall be in the proportion
which the value of the work done and
the materials delivered each month
bears to the estimated cost of the whole
work and materials required to com
plete the tunnel. The governor shall
have the general supervision of any
and all contracts, leases or other obi
cations and also of the work; and for
that purpose shall visit and inspect the
tunnel at least once in each year and
as much oftener as he may deem ex-
pedient. and he shall have power to
correct abuses, remedy defects, and en-
force requirements of the contract with
said construction company or -compan-
les, by withholding bonds, until such
requirements shall have been complied
with. If the governor, upon receipt of
the monthly estimates and certificates
of the engineer, shall approve thereof,
he shall transmit the same and his
approval thereon to the state treasurer,
who shall thereupon deliver the amount
of bonds so certified for. to said con-
struction company or companies or its
order.
See. g. This act shall not take effect
until after the Denver Northwestern
and Pacific Railway Company shall first
by deed and other acts of conveyance
turn over to the state all its right,
title and interest in its tunnel site at
or near James Peak, together with all
surveys, maps, plans and estimates con-
cerning the same. And also until after
the tunnel commission shall have made
and entered into written contract
with some competent construction com
pany or companies for the building OF
said tunnel which contract shall be ap-
proved by the governor. The object
and purposes of this act is for tho
state to construct this railway tunnel
SO that it may be the great trans-con-
tinental gateway for the use of any
and all railroads, granting to each and
all joint trafhc arrangements equal with
whatever railroad may have bought or
leased said tunnel from the state; and
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