The daily sentinel., 1906-08-13
LET'S GET TO WORK.

Ten years ago or more Grand juno
tion started out to secure one or two
big industries. At the time the most
to be desired seemed to be a sugar
factory and a smelter.
At the same time two other big
propositions for the advancement of
the city and county are being agi-
tated, high line canal and the new
railway station. OF all these much de
sired things we have secured all but
the high line canal. At the time we
speak of there was no thought of
trolley system, as that means of
travel was then in an embryotic
state. Therefor with the high line
canal still remaining not built and
the proposed trolley system, we have
two very material things toward
which to direct our efforts.
There need be no discouragement
upon the outlook for securing both
these great institutions, the canal
and the trolley system.
When the proposition was first ad-
vanced looking to the building of the
sugar factory in this city, the pros
pect was certainly more remote and
problematical, than is seems at the
present time looking to the building
of either the high line canal or the
proposed prolley system. In fact
there were very few people in this
city who believed that it was at all
possible to secure three quarters of
million dollars to build the sugar
factory. They not only thought so,
but they said so and they said it in
a manner which was very detrimen-
tai to the prospects of securing the
money. There were a few brave
hearts, however, that held on and the
result was the building of the first
sugar factory in the state, from
which has grown the great beet sugar
industry of the state, producing each
year millions of revenue.
1t is hard for us to determine
which would be the greater boon to
the people of the county, the building
of the high line canal or constuc-
tion of the trolley system. What we
have seen lately of the effects of the
trolley upon the country, inclines us
to the building of the trolley system
first, but we want both the trolley
and the high line canal.
But to get them is the question.
How shall be secure either one or
both? The only practicable way we
have found in the history of this city
is to go after them, stay with them
and finally build them. But you ar
que this cannot be done without
money. We grant this, but in some
manner money follows a supreme eff
fort apd the wherewithal is secured
in some manner.
Does anyone suppose that we
should ever have had the splendid
terminal station in this city. If we
had not urged the building of same
upon the chief officials of the Rio
Grande system. Nor did we go to
the least of the railroad officials, but
the greatest-George Gould himself
and we believe those two dele
cations of citizens met Mr.. Gould in
his private car and presented the
matter personally to him, is the very
primal reason why we secured the
station when we did. OF course it
was much needed, but not anymore
than a dozen other stations were
needed in towns and cities of equal
size along the line of the road
We have always believed in hav-
ing an object in view and unswerv-
ingly sticking to that object until it
is secured in some manner or an
other II should be the single pur-
pose of the citizens of this city and
county from now forward to secure
the construction or the canal and the
trolley system.