The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-20
Representatives Of Arkansas
Valley Towns Meet.
Plan an Electric Line From
Canon City to Dodge City
AT COST OF S15,OOO,OOO
To Establish Pumping Plants to
Water Farms Direct.
Gathering at Pueblo and En-
dorsed by Business Men.


Pueblo, April 2o-Gigantic plans
for the DEVELOPMENT of the Arkansas
valley along many Industrial lines
which will be of inestimable benent
20 every city as well as the rural
population. were discussed at the
Grand hotel, where a meeting was
held by representatives from Scott
City, Dodge City. Garden CITY ana
Syracuse, Kan. and Granada, Lamar
Fowler, Pueblo, Canon City and Colo
RADIO Springs. Colo.
The meeting was held for the pur-
nose OF meeting A b. Auilt' repre-
senting the Northern Electric com,
many of Madison, Wis. who outlined
q the gentlemen a scheme to provide
the Arkansas valley with electric IN
terurban railway facilities as well as
humping plants for irrigation pur-
poses and electric power for various
uses The plans will mean an expen-
dfture of over SIS, 100000.
Those who were present Ie1t WIN
the feeling that the company IS pre-
pared to carry out the proposals
which IT has made. A resolution was
adopted endorsing MI. Hulits pro-
posai.
time. but owing to the large number
of cities concerned, 1t was deemed ad-
visable to have a general meeting at
which the scheme in Its entirety couio
be outlined. Within a short time
meetings will be called in each or the
cities Interested, and everyone VIII
be given the opportunity to discuss
them Another general meeting Will
be held at La Junta within the next
thirty days.
The Northern Electric company
proposes to erect mammoth cleo,
trical plant at the Canon CITY coal
fields where fuel can be obtained
without need of transportation. The
company will likely endeavor TO Sc
cure control Of some of the mines:
From this general plant it Is proposed
to furnish power for every city down
the valley and to use this power In a
new way. While the construction OF
an interurban electric line and power
electric line from Canon CITY via
Pueblo to Dodge City, Kan, with a
branch line from Garden City to Scott
farmers are more interested in the
proposal to establish pumping plants
along the Arkansas river.
The use of pumping plants Is
novelty, and If put into execution
will mean that the long irrigating
bitches for the distribution of water
through gravity will De a thing OF the
past in the valley. The company pro-
poses to establish pumping plants
along the Arkansas river at stated In
tervals which will lift the water and
distribute it through short bitches to
the farmers in the immediate vicinity.
Not only this, but the company ex-
poets to pump water to considerable
distances from the river, and open up
thousands OF acres of land which
would otherwise lie idle for years to
come, or until mammoth irrigation
~ n.
bringing water from far up the val
lev and using immense reservoirs.
Mr.. Hulit gave the farmers figures
which showed that the water can be
pumped as cheaply as 1t can be
brought to the farms by gravity under
the present system, and without near
the complications and trouble which
are now experienced. There will be
less waste than under the system of
carrying water many miles through
ditches as the water which is not used
will be run directly back into the
river. It is also understood that the
company propose sto develop several
underfow systems.
At the melting the following resolu-
ADOPTED: H 'A' e was
"Resolved. That 1t is the sense of
this meeting that the plan outlined by
Mr.. Hulit as a representative of the
Northern Electrical company is feast
recommended to the people of the Ar
kansas valley as worthy Of their sup
port and endorsement. and we earnest
" ask for the cooperation in carrying
through this project.
''It Is further resolved that each
representative take up this matter in
his own section and call a meeting OF
those that he deems would be inter-
ested in an enterprise of this kind and
In the development of the country and
lay this matter before them. And
upon invitation Of the different repre-
sentatives, Mr.. Hulit viii lvisit the diff
ferent sections on an itinerary ar
ranged beforehand. and DISGUISE the
matter in detail with them and present
the working plan of this project. And
that a meeting will be called within
thirty days from date to organize this
into a regular working company.
as. H. ATWATRR, President