The daily sentinel., 1906-11-19
HIGH LINE CANAL.


mittee of one or more persons east
at once to present the matter of the
High Line canal project to the rec
lamation bureau and IL that bureau
turns deaf ear, TO present II direct
ly TO the president.
II you will recall, during last ses-
sion of congress, Clark of Montana
and one of the representatives from
that state found n million or more oi
money in the funds of the reclamation
service and they readily secured IT.
appropriation for the project of then
own, over the heads of a half dozen
other projects that had been present
ed TO the service.
How was this money obtained.
when it was stated by the reclamation
service that appropriations had beer
made to take all available funds. The
way IL was secured was that thcse
representatives found out the money
was there and simply went for il.
They were on the ground.
Now we don't accept any statement
of the reclamation Hcrvice any more.
on the money question. They find
money to place favored projects and
nrc finding il right along. That lit
tie story is II good one TO tell people.
whom IL is desired to throw of, but
so far as we are concerned we don't
propose to believe any more lies about
funds available.
Engineer Newell don't seem to d.
sire the building of this High line can
nj project. He hiss been here many
times, he knows IL Is one of the most
feasible projects that the reclamation
service has had under its considcra-
tion. He knows that the cost is i'm
considerable, compared with many
other projects. but yet he does not
forward the movement to build the
canal.
Ii has been dinncd in our ears time
and time again that, the reason tn j.
canal project has not been pushed
forward. was because of the opposi-
ton of Senator Teller, at the time IL
was proposed to build the canal
through private enterprise. That is
an exploded story and won't hold
that an excuse to hold back upon our
project, but we insist that IL is not
the truth. They 60 so far as TO say
that the high line canal project wouli
have been taken up before the Gun.
nison tunnel project, II IL had not
have been for the opposition of Scna-
tor Teller and those who desired to
build the canal by private enterprise.
This story i-' about as weak as tho
other one. Everyone, who has any
knowledge of the work of the rccln-
nation service knows that A. l.. Eel
lows, who was with the photographic
vey had the Gunnison Tunnel, as his
pet scheme and permitted nothing to
stand In the way of securing the gov
ernment's consent to build that great
engineering scheme. Fellows knew
all the time that we were working 10
secure the aid of the government that
anything TO do with it.. Fellows at
titudc was exposed, when II was
charged that he was favoring the gov
einment's opposition to the Gore
canon site, against the MoTat road
and David Mofrat charged him with
being venal in that matter. He simp-
ly gave us the ha ha and hoodwink-
ed all Of us In his attitudes.
Now we suggest that the Chamber
of Commerce take hold of this matter
ut once. Let that body take means to
raise funds TO pay the eNpcnses OF
some one or more persons 10 go tn
Washington and stay right with the
reclamation service until some satis-
factory answer is secured. We put
the matter into the hands of attorneys
In Washington last year, who were to
apprise us il there was any hope of
securing favorable consideration for
our project and they very honestly
stated that there was not any hop
at that time and we believe they were
honest in the matter, but they did not
know. We say they did not know,
because Senator Clark and the repres-
cntativc of Montana found that there
was n million or more of money un-
in the reclamation fund
and they swooped down upon il and
secured ii.
Let's don't waste time on people
whom we know are opposed TO MS. Let |
US go 10 the fountain head if we mu.i
and find out if there he any reasons.
why we are not included in the work |
Of this great reclamation service.
The time TO do this work is nov,
not after while. That great project |
should be gotten under way, not lat
ar than the spring of 1907. To get
L under way. let us call on our rep
'escntativcs and ask them TO meet us
IN the project and don't take no for
IN answer.
The very best thing to make this