Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-26
THE GREAT WEST.
United Effort Inaugurated to Material
ly Advance Its Welfare.

. Gov Prince is in receipt OF the follow
ing letter touching matters Of momentous
importance to the substantial growth and
/ prosperity of the west
DENVER, Colo, April 24.--I1ear Sir:
/ Permit me TO call your attention to the
suggestion that convention of western
men will be held at Denver this fall to
discuss local issues.
send by this mail a copy OF this letter
to the governors OF all the states and ter
ritories west of the Missouri river, and
await their replies. The following extract
from the address of the rctirin president
of the chamber OF commerce has led TO
this letter: 'The efforts To secure reser-
voirs for irrigation, to be built andoperated
by the government, meets with an ap-
preparation Of 100000 to do the prellmi-
nary work. Couple this with the thought
that we had deep wafer convention last
summer, at which it WAS decided to secure
an appropriation from the government for
deep harbOr Oh the Texas coast, so
that Denver would I've to that port what
Chicago is to New York, an inland dis
tributing center. and bear in mind that
gigantic effort will he put forth by the
eastern seabord to prevent rival deep
harbor, to interfere with the expenditure
of large sums for reservoirs, and that
every state west of the Missouri river is
vitality interested ia one of these, il not
both, and that, as in the case OF Califor-
MIA, which in twenty-eight years has paid
to the federal government $3.50, 900, 900,
and received back in Improvements only
SO 100000. | have authority for every
word of this address. So, Colorado, Ne
braska, Kansas, Texas and all other states
west of the Missouri river, similarly ig-
nored or Disseminated against in the vast
river and harbor bills, and in the general
appropriations by the government, and
gentlemen, has the time not come to call
a western congress and call it here, when
there shall be organized force so strong,
that we shall secure our rights while
ignoring party lines? If need be the west
shall 20 to Washington solid phalanx to
demand that deep harbor on the Texas
gulf shall be constructed and that Cali
forna shall not get merely a few thousand
a year for Improvements on the coast
while the Atlantic coast receives annually
its millions, but shall require fair pro-
portion and get it because it is backe by
a united transit Mississippi delegation.
Then the irrigable lands Of Colorado, New
Mexico, Arizona and southern California
will be capable of producing crops as great
as those OF New York state and all of the
New England states combined. 1t shall
have been constructed by the general
government storage reservoirs, that shall
soon repay hundred fold the outlay nee
essary to make them.
A committee who were appointed by
the chamber of commerce have requested
me to write you asking what you think Of
the idea, and if your opinion is favorable
delegates should be chosen. tits not the
intention to confne the discussions al.
together to harbor improvements. There
must be at no distant day vast system
Of reservoirs in which water can be stored
for irrigating purposes This question is
vital one to western capital and should
be paramount in dimensions. Please give
this your earnest consideration and reply
as soon as convenient. Respectfully,
JOB A. COOPER, Gov. of Colorado