The Imperial press., 1905-09-16

The Rio Colorado, that wonderful stream of liquid richness; Uncle Sam's greatest asset in all the arid west; the foundation stone on which the hopes for home of many thousands of peo- pie are builded, is now menaced by the greed of a corporation.
 For more than year a conflict has been waged between the Denver, North western and Pacific Railway Company, a corporation controlled by one b. Il. MOffatt, a multi-millionaire, on the one hand, and the United States Reclama- ton service on the other, concerning the control of canon, known as Gore canyon, in the state of Colorado.
 Back of this fight has been arrayed, on the corporation side, all the sinister influences of the powerful and unscrup- uIuus corporations which have controlled its legislatures and courts, deposed its governors and made of that state shame and a stigma on the fair name of free America. This combination, con- trolling the press of that state, has waged such a war of villifcatiOn and islander against the Reclamation Serv- ice and their work as has been shame to journalism.
 Ostensibly, this fight was over the Service should build dam i'll Gore canyon, and use the Kremling Valley for a reservoir, thus impounding large amount of the flood waters of the Upper Colorado, and constructing one of the necessary parts of u cir great plan for the conservation of it's water and it's use On the arid lands further down the stream. or whether Multi-milli0naire Moffatt should build his railroad through this canyon.
 Back of Moffatt's fight, however, is the great coal interests, which saw in dam in Gore canyon, possibilities of great electric plant, which should light and heat the cities of Colorado, and thereby release them from their clutches. So the fight soOa resolved itself into con- test between the allied monopolies on the one hand, with the people Ot Color ado prostrate under their feet, their press suborned, their courts debauched, and their public servants controlled, and the United States Reclamation Service on the other, manfully battling for the rights of the landless man.
 Through the control which the Moffatt side has yielded over those whose duty it was to protect the people from the harpies they have been able to steadily and stealthily encrOach on the situation until at the present time they endanger the entire project of water storage and flood regulation, not only on the Color ado river and its tributaries directly, but on all western rivers indirectly. This matter is one of so much impOr- tance to the people of Imperial Valley that we herewith present some facts re- garding it, and offer some suggestions as to how we may take appropriate action to protect our interests.
 In the first place, when the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific railway was planned and the prospectus issued, there was no intention to build through Gore canyon, another route being pro- posed. This was several years ago. The matter laid in abeyance tor some time, being merely railroad scheme.
 During 1903 and 1904, however, the Reclamation Service done a great deal of topographic work on the upper Colo rado and its tributaries and by their investigations determined that great controlling reservoir that would inn pound the summer floods and largely regulate the flow of the river, could be constructed by the building of a dam in this particular canyon. In the mean time, the monopolies, always alert and jealous of their advantages, saw, through the development of electrical appliances