The daily sentinel., 1902-12-09
Company Organized to Divert
the Water of the Western
Slope to the Other Side
of the Range.

The Sentinel has uttered warnings
bility of the waters of Grand river
being diverted to the east slope of the
range. People have said it was news
paper talk and other things and voted
that someone was an alarmist.
In the Rocky Mountain News of
Monday is very long article giving
full details of the incorporation of the
company. the plan of work and what
it is hoped to do.
Below is given few extracts from
the article to show that there is some
thing being done and that the people
of the western slope have been sleep
ing on their rights:
1.-The officers and directors of the
Agricultural Ditch company and the
Church Ditch comspany more than a
year ago conceived the idea of tunnel
ing the front range somewhere be-
tween fifty and 200 miles northwest
of Denver, and capturing part OF
the billions and billions of gallons of
water which annually passes and goes
to waste along the western slope.
Planswere formulated and men put in
to the field to prospect. Engineers
dispatched for the purpose reported on
the commercial and practical features
and feasibility of the undertaking
jointly opened up the cmapaign early
in the spring of the present year.
The purpose is to basin a few bill
ion gallons on the westren sloDe, run
them through three tunnel to
the eastern slope, and thence along
the bed of Clear creek to the vicinity
of Denver bounded on the south by
Bear creek. ON the north by Clear
creek and Boulder. and between Den
yer and Golden ON the west. There
is fully 100. 900 acres, all capable of
the highest cultivation. but practical
ly worthless ON account of paucity of
water.
"We have long been working in
this direction, said Henry Lee OF
the Lee -Kinsey Implement company.
secretary of the Agricultural Ditch
ers more seriously from water poverty
than any other city in Colorado.
With plenty of water anything and
everything is possible to Denver.
Denver should be great manufactur
ing centre, but as it is now Longmont,
Greeley. Loveland. it YOU will. can
have their sugar factories, while Den
yer is told that she has not sufficient
water facilities to warrant even a
small plant. The land between here
and Arvada should be filled with cul-
tivated vegetation. but not till there
is plenty of water will it be so.
up to date we have done no filing
the laws do not require us to file. We
have done much actual work. as the
surveying went ON, and so quietly
ed. All legal requirements have
been complied with and work on the
tunnel will be pushed rapidly. On
| the western slope of the range we
have already located three reservoirs,
and as soon as the open season arriv
es we shall locate seven or eight more
some on the western slope some on the
eastern We had to move with caut
ion in these matters. for should our
plans have become known great oppo-
sition would have ensued.
ga board of directors comprl sing
| members of the two ditch companies
will be elected at meeting to be held
| sometime within the next ten days.
Some idea of the magnitude of this
thing may be gained when it is
stated that it will make possible the
support of city five times greater
| than Denver