Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-07-25
COMING OuR WAY.

The liveliest and most hopeful imagination could not
have conceived a plan so revolutionary as the one that Is
being proposed by one of the two great sugar corporations
operating in Colorado. says the Trinidad Advertiser.
The scheme is nothing less than the conservation of
all the surplus waters of the Las Animas watershed in a
series of immense reservoirs, the use Of these waters to
irrigate many thousands of acres of sugar beets, and the
erection of a sugar factory big enough to take care of the
entire beet product.
The company proposes to purchase every existing wa
ter right along the river, arranging with the present own
es to give in return an equal supply at about half the
present cost. 1t will also attempt to arrange a contract
with the farmers to have a certain proportion of their
lands placed under sugar beets.
The scheme Is so vast and presents so many sides
that the preliminary arrangements may take many
months to arrange. All manner of difficulties are sure to
be met, some of which might be serious enough to cause
failure. These difficulties will take time and patience to
overcome.
Trinidad and the county should be a unit in helping
toward the success of the scheme. The gain to the com
munity will be inestimable. 1t will mean the creation of
a new and important agricultural district, the doubling
and possibly trebling Of the population Of the entire dis
trict. Prosperity will be founded on basis permanent as
the ages.
The present scheme may fail, but it is being con-
templated is certain indication that sooner or later a
similar enterprise will be pushed TO a successful reality.
New Mexico stands unequaled in soil and climate for
sugar beet culture, but such enterprises as the foregoing
have not yet looked this way. Probably it is because we
are a territory instead of being a state,
Does a man cease to be a man because he is elected
to the city council? Does he cease to be influenced by
interests, friendships, personal feelings, prejudices, and
the thousands of varying motives that influence men out
side of the city council? Yet that is the fool position taken
by the water organ. Be cause a man is a member of the
city council he does not become infallible, Immaculate or
immune to error. He does not cease to be biased by
friendship or prejudice. Why, then, should the water
organ grow so holly indignant over The Citizens proposal
that the people select an expert for the valuation of the
water plant, separate and apart from the one whom the
water company is to assist in paying2 Between you, me
and the gatepost, reader, but not TO go any further, the
water organ is frightened at the prospect OF the water
company's not realizing that Speculation" for which the
organ Itself says they bought the water company's equity
last March. OF course, If the speculation" fails, the own
ers of the water organ won't get that additional sum Of
money which hangs in the balance,
Henry Cews says that the country is now entering
the period when the currency movement will be adverse
to New York. He argues from this that there will be no
initiation OF prices in stocks. bonds or products.
The Colorado Springs Telegraph says of
that state; Corporate interests have the up
per hand in both parties, and the citizens
OF the state might as well admit the fact and
prepare to combat It. In the fight that is going on within
each organization for party control, and between the part
ies for the state control, the rank and file Of the voters
are mere spectators, and they are no more closely in
touch with the actual inside workings OF what they see
than the spectators at a Straightforward performance"
The Telegraph advises the popular election Of senators.
But q better remedy and the only one which will bring a
government "of the people, by the people and for the peo-
pe." is the initiative and referendum.