The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
HE IS NOT A GUTTER
NIT. Standish is Still Trying
 to Harness White River

The Tribune is in receipt of an . other bunch of matter from w. H. Standish of Aurora, Mo-, in the interest of his White river power plan, concerning which scheme this paper had considerable to say last winter.
 Although MT. Standish has met with some very pronounced opposition in his efforts to have Congress declare White river unnavigable above Cotter, he is still keeping up the fight with vigor and from the tone of the matter just received at The Tri- bune office, we judge that he has strong hopes of winning out.
 To begin with The Tribune was inclined to look upon Mir. Standish's scheme with great favor and we are not to say op' posed to it yet. We confess, however, that the position of Con . gressman Floyd, as explained in these columns several months ago, has caused us to look at the matter somewhat differently.
 The proposition yet being an open question and one in which the people of Carroll county are vitally interested, some fifteen miles of this stream being encom- passed within our borders, while a hundred miles or more encircle tributary territory, The Tribune columns are open for it's discus sion.
 As has been heretofore ex- plained, the scheme has for it's object the harnessing of water power on the White to run vari- ous kinds of factories, electric railways, etc. The barrier that blockades the way for these en- terprises, is permission from Con- press to build dams and tunnels. which would, of course, obstruct the way for steam boats.
 MT. Standish contends that the stream can never be made navi- gable above Cotter, and that if it could be made navigable the benefits to the country to be Ge- rived from the industries driven by the power plants he and others propose to establish would be of vastly more value.
 From the arguments presented by Mr. Standish we take it that the chief opposition to his meas- ure is centered in the idea that such concession as he seeks is of great value and that tax should be placed thereon so that the government may profit in the transaction. In Southern Mis- souri in the recent campaign a fight was made against Folk for the United States Senate nd in favor Stone solely because Stone was known to favor Mir. Stan- dish's scheme, while Folk had announced that he favored taxa tion of water power. The suc- cess of Stone is hailed with great delight by Standishe,s because of hisa ttitudetoward this measure.
 To make a long story very short, MT. Standish argues that vast wealth may be brought to the regions of the O.arks because of the cheap power for manufac. turing and he cites what has been done with the rivers in the southeast can mountain regions which a gov ernment report esti- mates is saving to the people oi that section more than S7 1000, ,00C per annum. The rights to use these streams were granted ir the same manner Mr. Standish seeks to have the rights granted to harness White river.
 In his letter to us Mr. Standish encloses a petition which he de- sires the people of Green Forest to sign copy of which follows
 TO THE Goth CONGRESS
 We, at Green Forest. Carroll county, Arkansas, are located in the Northwest corner ol Township 20, Range 23, directly south of Stone county, Missouri and state that we desire Congress to grant dam and tunnel privi- lege at section 5, township B range 20, on the White river about a mile and a half above Forsyth, Fancy county, Mis- souri, and to not require a lock a, the dam as we believe it would be useless, and an imposition