Cañon City record., 1908-11-12

tendance at the public meeting at the
district court room Friday to hear Mr..
Hulit, contractor and general manag-
er of the Kansas-Colorado electric
Power and Transmission company. re-
late in detail the plans and ambitions
OF that enterprise Is assurance that
Canon City IL thoroughly awake to the
value and importance OF that splendid
proposition; and the material welfare
OF the community.
The meeting was called to order BY
President Geo. H. Sale of the Mer-
chants association. and. following .
short address in which allusion was
maas TO the purposes Of the gathering.
Capt B. r. Rockafellow was made
chairman for the occasion and intro
d1ced Mr.. Hulit to the audience. With
ont preamble or preliminary Mr.. Hu-
lit began the presentation Of the sub
jsct for which he had come to Canon
City, viz: An explanation Of the de-
sign. hopes and expectations Of the
Kansas Colorado electric. transmits
don and transportation lines.
"The enterprise In which our COM
pany is engaged" said Mr.. Hulit. 'is
one Of the most benencient ever un-
dertaken by q commercial organixa-
ton. It contemplates the reclamation
Of 100000 acres Of arid land in Kan
sas and eastern Colorado which will
b transformed from barrenness into
an Eden Of beauty and OF verdure.
This great area is larger than that
embraced in all of the irrigation en-
terprises in which the United States
government is now engaged and upon
which 1t Ia expanding many millions
Of dollara-
There Is at present about $4,000
acres OF irrigated land in the Arkan-
sas valley only little more than one
sixteenth of what our company pro-
poses to redeem from the desert and
by the magic touch of water make
blossom as the rose. II Is a vast pro-
3ect. but back Of the company OF
which Mr.. Atwater, Of your city, ID
president, L. the Northern Electrical
Manufacturing company OF Madison.
Wisconsin. and the General Electric
company OF Schenectady. New York.
which together employ more than 49,
ooo mea the year round and turn out
% million dollars worth Of product
evsry day In the year. They supply a
per cent Of all the electrical equip
nsat nssd In tie world and have thsiz
|aesats In svery. country .na eerth
vhioh has . nag Of III ,ouh. They are
b1ildh8 eleetrict railroads in Hong
Kong. 9oath Africa. In every nation in
Darops and South America and In the
islands OF the SEA
The Kansas Colorado company ID
by no means . small one. in fact, Il
10 the largest Of its kind In North Am
erica for 1t ooultsmplatss the con
struction and operation OF 307 miles Of
electric road. under one management.
between Canon City. Colorado, and
Scott City. Kansas. Every mile. Of this
viii be built n rapidly n men and
money can do II. q The contraets for
construction and eQuipmsnt. which
were let ut meeting OF the board OF
directors ON Friday. aggregate more
than $4,000. 600. The completed pro-
position means three plants for the
8eneration OF electrical saersy cost
ing $500. 900 each: the Installation. OF
$4,000 electric pumps costing $500
each and $1,000 telegraph poles for
overhead construction.
Our company 10 not here as an ad-
venture, or n \ speculation, but for
the purpose OF Investment. We have
had the matter Investigated by the
6est civil and electrical engineers In
the country and are sure that the
proposition can be made 4 gratifying
success. It was at nrst computed by
our engineers that it would require
&1.6o0. 900 to build and equip the forty
miles between Pueblo and Canon City.
which We call the western division.
Later estimates have reduced the cost
to $4,000 a mile, or 100000 for the
entire stretch OF territory.
After an exhaustive Investigation
of the matter, in which q practical
view OF the situation has been taken.
the company 10 convinced that there
u freight enough here to make Il pay
handsome dividends o. the investment
from the very start. in fact. We are
very sars that the forty milss Of road
bstwssa Canon City and Paselo viii
yield, net revenue oe 31.1oe.0eo .
year after paying sxpsasss Of opsra-