The daily sentinel., 1905-04-18
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\ public meeting was held in the
City hall yesterday afternoon to hear
Col r. c. Henry on the High Line
ditch proposition from his stand
point.
E. NJ. slocomb was unanimously
called TO the chair and without pre-
liminaries Mr.. Henry was asked to
state his position.
Mr. Henry said that he was here
only incidentally. en- route to another
point. and. having heard that there
was TO be public meeting, he was
glad of the opportunity TO state his
attitude. He said he desired to re-
sent any charges that he was un-
friendly to the government project to
construct the canal: that he would
cheerfully sacrifice any personal in
terest he might have in his project
rather than interfere with develop
ment of the valley. whose friend he
had always been.
1t had been charged that he had
abandoned the effort to dispose Of
the ditch bonds. Tins was ~ error.
He had never said that he could not
dispose of the bonds; but il was
charged that he stood in the way of
the government and he withdrew.
giving up all the work and time he
had put in
The reason there was delay in
placing the bonds was that the courts
had not passed upon the constitution
ality of the new irrigation law, and,
until this was done, capital would
not take heed. The supreme court
would pass upon this by June, and
then he believed be could place the
bonds without trouble, as all the par
ties who had looked over the situa-
tion were well pleased. and there
was more merit in this canal than
in many of those whose bonds had
been placed.
Why had he not consummated the
sale of the bonds and built the canal2
Why should he have proceeded fur
ther if the government had charge.
There nothing now to assure the
people that the government will take
hold of the project. Since Col. Eel
lows was here the government had
taken up other projects and arranged
TO spend money at other places. Mr..
Fellows promised were unauthorized
and there was no prospect of the gov
ernment taking hold of this project.
and he (Col. Henry had both legal
and moral right. as had any other
citizen, to look after the matter. and
he believed that if he had the loyal
support of the entire community he
could and would construct the canal
by next April.
He read a letter from Engineer Da-
Wis tending to show that the govern
ment would not take the matter up
at once. and the speaker claimed
that he had better authority still to
show that the government had no
/ Of taIr oh at Int
he said he was not at liberty to give
the name of his authority.
At the conclusion of Col Henry's
remarks. he invited questions, and
questions he had in plenty. Some
of them he answered promptly and
others he declined to answer. stating
that they were irrelevant and only
sought to uncover his plans to those
who were unfriendly to him.
Judge Caswell, w. S. Wallace.
Frank Kiefer. II. r. Rhone. George
| Currie, George Smith and others
/ joined in the discussion.
Col. Henry proposed that com
mittee of three or five citizens be
appointed by the meeting, himself to
be consulted in the appointments,
and that the committee, in conjunc-
! tion with himself, submit list of
questions to the secretary of the in
| terror, and, II the answers to these
questions showed it to be the purpose
of the government to take hold OF
\ the canal project at once, he would
retire from the field.
His proposition received very lit
tie consideration at the hands of the
meeting, and motion that it was
the sense of the meeting that the
work of presenting the matter to the
government be continued and pushed
carried without any demonstrations
OF opposition, and the meeting ad-
journed.
The meeting appeared to be any
thing but friendly with Col. Hen
rvs efforts to construct the canal
Those who took an active part in the
meeting, with perhaps two or three
exceptions, expressed great faith il
the ultimate results of the efforts tC
get the government to construct the
canal.