From the Railroad Gazette Vol 34 , page 315, Year 1902

[Rick Steele]

I post this without comment except... hmmmmm....

DENVER & SALT LAKE RAILWAY, TUNNEL & MINING --- The proposed route of this line, incorporated last July to connect the cities named, will follow from Denver to the tunnel, the old surveys of the Denver, Lakewood & Golden Company through Idaho Springs. The tunnel is situated 1 1/2 miles above Graymont. This was included in the former project but over two miles remain to be built. From this point on the route follows the Snake River for some little distance. The valleys of the Grand, Bear and Green Rivers are followed on their way to Salt Lake. No work has yet been done. The directors of the company are E. C. Beebe and J. E. Ratchford of Syracuse, N.Y., and others.

Addition from The Railroad Gazette Vol 34, Page 385:

DENVER & SALT LAKE RAILWAY, TUNNEL & MINING --- At a recent meeting of the Directors in Denver, it was voted to renew work on the tunnel through Gray's Peak in Colorado.  Of this tunnel , to be 3 3/4 miles long, about one half has been bored. It was formerly known as the Atlantic & Pacific or "Brick" Pomeroy Tunnel. Three offers for this property are reported to have been received, but none has been accepted yet.

... and on page 404 this is listed:

DENVER, LAKEWOOD & GOLDEN --- This road, which runs between Denver and Golden, Colo., 13 miles has been ordered sold under foreclosure to satisfy the claims of the bondholders and other creditors in suit brought in the name of Farmer's Loan & Trust Co. W. W. Borst , Denver Colo. is receiver. This line, which is standard gauge, was chartered in 1890 and completed in 1892. Between Barnum and Barnum Junction, Colo., three miles, it is operated by electricity.

Now I have to make a comment... This is the last post found for the Denver & Salt Lake, Tunnel & Mining. The Denver, Lakewood and Golden became the Denver & Intermountain and later part of the Denver Streetcar system.  The Denver & Northwestern begins appearing about this time along with the incorporation of the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific, which were both Moffat owned railroads.

I just thought that it was interesting that all of the rumors that used to fly about the C&S using the A&P tunnel, which they constantly denied were true, but just not for the right railroad....

[Darel Leedy]

Well the DL&G did make it to Golden. Much of the right of way is now the RTD light rail. But obviously this is not the same D&SL we are familiar with, as it wasn't named that until 1913.
What year is this Gazette?

[Jeff Young]

Interesting that they left out the Blue River.  Did it used to be called the Snake all the way down to modern-day Kremmling?  (Or is the editor just saving a bit on the word-count?)

[Edited to revert spelling checker's "fix".  Kremlin?  Really?]

[Rick Steele]

The thing that none of the C&S lovers here are thinking about is where in Clear Creek Canyon would this company find enough room to build a right-of-way? Would they expect to buy the C&S Clear Creek lines and standard gauge them? In that canyon? Or did they expect to magically find enough room in a canyon that all ready had a Railroad and a water flume through it?

I wonder if the right-of-way surveys still exist?

Rick