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<br />O~21'~8 <br /> <br />The completion of the Hoffat tunnel raised the hope that <br /> <br />once again transportation would be available to this area. It <br /> <br />was assumed that the Hoffat Road would be finished to the Salt <br /> <br />Lake City and that the northwest would be revived. However, this <br /> <br />did not take place because of the poor financial condition of the <br /> <br />line. The Denver and Rio Grande took over the right-of-way. By <br /> <br />the 1930s, the Dotsero Cutoff was completed and for all practical <br /> <br />purposes, the Craig route became a branch service line; the north- <br /> <br />west languished. <br /> <br />Since the 1930s, the northwestern corner of Colorado has <br /> <br />subsisted on agriculture, oil, some coal, and more recently tourism. <br /> <br />Within the last ten year oil shale development has shown promise, <br /> <br />but even more important the coal industry has been revived. Once <br /> <br />again a new boom seems eminent. <br /> <br />Adapted from "Isolated Empire" by F, J. Athearn Historian, <br />Colorado State Office, Bureau of Land Hanagement. <br />