The daily sentinel., 1908-11-23

as c. Curtain, regarding the power
plant proposition and the electric
stleet railway proposition. Reference
was made to the big sensation the
story of the strong company's great
plans had created here. Along this
line on that day The Sentinel said
in part: The Sentinel always has told
its readers that when anything defi-
mite was to be given out upon the
construction of an electric line in this
valley, it would appear IN The SEN
tinel first"
On Monday, May %, 1908. The
Sentinel made the exclusive an
nouncemcnt that the Fruit Bet peo-
pie had announced officially that
they would apply for the desired
street railway franchise. We will
just quote in part that article:
Charles L. Noble. of the Fruit
Belt Power company, returned to the
city at noon today from Colorado
Springs. and he at once filed the
formal notice of an application to be
made by Horace X. DevereauX and
Eugene A. Sunderlin for franchise
to be granted by the city council for
the construction and erection of
street railway system. The applica-
tion will be made on the evening of
Tuesday. June 9th. AT regular meet
ing of the city council. The gentle
men whose standing in the financial
world is well known and who through
their representatives, chief of whom
is MIR. Noble, have thoroughly gone
over the preliminary steps, now stand
ready and willing to build an electric
railway for Grand Junction. The
gentlemen agree to begin construc-
Inv 1ng. Al. D, a..
year and to have at least two miles
of the track completed and in opera
ton within year. II is n matter
of only short time until Grand
junction will have the long desired
street railway in operation"
This story was reproduced in the
sheet the next day, but was
old news then.
On saturday afternoon. June 20,
10OS, The Sentinel announced that
the city council had granted the
franchise to the Fruit Belt people
and i'm that issue of The Sentinel was
given first publication of the propos-
ed ordinance granting the franchise
which ordinance showed that the
proposed to have three miles
of the road completed and ready for
use by July 1900.
III iilN odlllt lSSNc ! ne soFHillltl na1
an editorial regarding the granting
of the franchise and consrntd dating
the city over the early COMING Of The
electric line appeared.
From that time on until this fall,
ut intervals The Sentinel made first
and exclusive announcemcnt of the
progress of the electric line matters
and more than once made inr an
nounccment that the company would
live up to its franchise and have car,
i'm operation next y-ar.
On the morning of Ocinbcr 15th
the morning Yellow 9n,r first page
publication of II dirty. uncnIlcd for
and disrcputabl,, knock. written by
its editor, MIR. B"kcl on the clcclri"
railway and lis bacLei~. IT declared
that the time for beginninE WORK had
arrived and 10 en@incers were here
and that Mr.. Noble was gore, that If
work was SIT. -rl ii would Only b,
of n tempora y raiure. T'hen It dc
clared that there was Il rcporc that
the company was trying to unload The
franchise for big sum in Chicago
On the afternoon of October 18th
The Sentinel branded this report as
n lie, proved that MIR. Nohl had been
in the city for = week piiof to the
18th and that aciiY. preparations for
the starting of Goa 4 cIntIUI work IN
the railway waS under way, that
Chief Engineer All ~ and his assist
ants were here. rhc controversy
over the Twelfth street ditch was
then detailed by The sentinel IL he
ing the first publication Of this mat
ter. The Sentinel also announced
that day that bids for construction
work and material would soon he
asked for, and that the actual con-
struction work would soon lie under
way, that the company was acting
in good faith and had the necessary
financial backing. These were all
first and exclusive announcements
about the starting of construction
work and the calling for bids, ami
The Sentinel made them.
1t should also be stated that The
Sentinel in the first big announce