Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-27
THE GREAT WEST.
United Effort Inaugurated to Material
~ 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.--Dear Sir:
Permit me to call your attention to the
suggestion that a convention ot western
men will be held at Denver this fall to
discuss local issues.
| send by this mail 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 rctrju president
of the chamber of commerce has led to
this letter: "The efforts To SertIre rpspr
vors for irrigation, to be built and operated
by the government, meets with an ap-
preparation OF $4,000 II do the preIlm-
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
a deep harbor on the Texas coast, so
that Denver world 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, If not
both, and that, rs in the case OF Califor-
MIA, which in twenty-eight years has paid
to the federal government $3.50, 000, 900,
and received back in improvements only
$S,00O,000. | 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
western congress and call it here, when
there shall be organized force so strong,
| that we shall secure our rights while
ignoring party lines? Ii need be the west
shall 60 to Washington solid phalanx to
demand that deep harbor on The Texas
gulf shall be constructed and that Cali
fornia shall not get merely few thousand
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 backed by
united trans-Mississppi 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
a vital one to western capital and should
be paramount in dimensions. Please give
this your earnest consideration and reply
rs soon as convenient Respectfully,
jon A. COOPER, Gov. of Colorado.
Don't Get Caught
This spring with your blood full OF impur-
tiles, your digestion impaired, your appe-
tte poor, kidneys and liver torpid and
whole system liable to be Frustrated by