The Imperial press., 1905-09-30
COLORADO RAILROAD VICTORY.

Brief telegraphic dispatches told re- gently of the victory achieved by the Denver & Northwestern railroad, known in Colorado as the Moffatt road, over the United States in suit involving the right of way through the Gore canyon Tn northwestern Colorado. A similar right of way in Browns park is also in- volved.
 The United States reclamation ser vice had located reservoir sites at these points. The railroad and the reservoirs could not both utilize them.
 The United States claim is that enor- nous public benefits are dependent up on the reservoirs; that without them perhaps million acres can never be reclaimed from the desert, which, under irrigation that is entirely feasible by means of these reservoirs, can be made to equal the fondest dreams of the found CTS of the Imperial country, and that the Moffatt road can just as well change it's route and get through the mountains without monopolizing these particular canyons.
 In fact, it is understood that the United States surveyed another equally practicable route and brought it to the attention of the railroad officials, who it is intimated had reasons other than oil ho monopoly.
 INVESTIGATION INSTITUTED
 The importance of the reservoirs to California and Arlzona, and even to Colorado, seems to have been ignored by those most concerned. When the subject was brought to the attention of some of the officers of the realty board 1t was decided to make thorough in- vestigation of the subject, and as be- ginning the board invited J. B. Lippin- cOtt, engineer at the head of the United States reclamation service in this dis trict, and J. Donald Campbell, an irri- gation expert engineer, who, until the last four years, was resident of Colo rado, to attend the board meeting yesterday and aid in elucidating the problem.
 Mir. Lippincott, whose name las be- come very familiar lately in connection with the Owens river water proposition explained that as a United States of iicial his utterances must be somewhat restricted. He confined the statement already made as to the contention of the United States in the suit above mentioned, however and explained that reservoirs below the Grand canyon of the Colorado are not feasible and that consequently while 400, 900 acres are irrigable perhaps without the reser- v"irs in question as much as 100000 acres could be irrigated in dry years by such regulation of the supply, while In wet years the amount conserved above the average would be applicable for increased future use and as pro- vision for emergencies.
 COLORADO OPPOSITION ASSURED
 Mir. Campbell considered Mir. Lippin- cott's estimates very conservative and declared as former citizen of Colorado his belief that the people of Colorado, when impartially informed as to the facts in the case, would oppose the eff forts of the Moffatt interests to deprive the government of the opportunities for reclamation offered by the proposed reservoirs.
 Without taking into account the inn mense acreage in other states affected. it was stated, the ultimate triumph of the railroad would mean the loss of half a million acres of land tributary to Los Angeles alone, an amount of acreage equivalent to double that now under