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...Tunnel No. 1, the Denver water district Jones Pass tunnel. Then he tackled the tough, six-mile Cripple Creek Carlton tunnel. On that job he flabbergasted veteran construction engineers by holing through in two years (the best estimated time was four to eight). This put Long John in the rockhog hall of fame. Two years ago he started the western end of the Alva Adams tunnel, a 13-mile tube 13,000 ft. beneath the crest of the Rockies. The Adams tunnel Government project intended to carry enough water from Grand Lake to Estes Park to irrigate 615,000 acres...
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