The daily sentinel., 1909-06-09
WILL T. c. HENRY PERSIST
IN FIGHTING HIGH LINE :
Reported That He Proposes to File
Another Backcapping State
ment With Secretary of
Interior.

Interior.
! II will be remembered that +
+ some time ago The Sentinel ex- 1.
I. clusively announced the details +
+ of letter that T. c. Henry had +
+ written to F. II. Newell, chief +
+ of the reclamation service. set +
+ ting forth that he could and J.
+ would build the High Line ca +
j. nal cheaper than the govern +
+ ment and at the same time wat +
+ er more land and have a more +
+ feasible right of way. 4
+ According to yesterday morn +
+ ing's Denver News. T. c. Hem +
1. ry proposes to renew that offer. +
+ However. nobody will get +
= alarmed over his further ae- +
+ tions as the secretary of the i'm +
4. terror has announced that the +
+ government will build the ca J.
+ nal, and Henry's efforts may be +
+ annoying. but not serious or ef- +
+ fective. The Denver News says. +
+ = + + = + 1. + 1. l. +
Within thirty days at the outside,
and probably within half that time,
I. C. Henry of this city will file a
formal statement with the secretary
of the interior. relative to the Grand
Valley High Line canal. The state
ment in question will undertake TO
show that the High Line canal is a
project which should be left to pri-
vate enterprise. Ii will. in effect, be
an elaboration of letter written by
Henry to f. H. Newell. chief of the
reclamation service, of which por-
ton is as follows:
81 will engage to build a gravity
high line canal on a grade about 35
feet above the one adopted by the
reclamation engineers, thereby avoid
ing all right of way across fruit lands
irrigable therefrom, for bonds of the
existing irrigation District enlarged
to embrace the same, not exceeding
$40 per acre on the basis of a cubic
foot per second for each 100 acres to
the satisfaction and approval of the
State Engineer of Colorado; com
plete it by May /, 1910, without ex-
acting land units" bonuses, COM
missions or subscriptions in work.
provided that the government lands
segregated shall be restored to entry,
and all needed right of way over gov
ernment lands be granted such irri-
CATION district. All necessary bonuses
and guarantees as the law requires
shall be Immediately provided"
The statement about to be filed by
Henry will undertake to show that he
has a better line for the canal than
engineers; and that it can be built
by private company for less money
and in less time than by the reclama-
ton service. Henry's plan is to take
the water from the Grand river above
the mouth of Plateau creek, some dis
tance above the proposed intake of
the government project He plans to
take the water out on the south side
of the river. carry it along that bank
then cross the river with an inverted
siphon to the lands to be irrigated
on the north bank By this means.
Henry claims he will avoid damaging
the Palisade orchards, since it will
bring the new ditch above the highest
old ditch, and therefore on unused
land Owing to his line being higher
up the slope, Henry counts that it
will have about 1000 more acres
beneath it and subject to irrigation
than would be the case with the gov
ernment ditch.
Henry claims he has plenty of
financial backing in this matter and
that he will present the evidence of
such backing to the secretary of the
interior
There is no question as to the atti-
tude of the citizens of Grand junction
and the Grand valley in regard TO the
building of the High Line canal, how
ever feasible the proposition may APP
pear to Henry. They are unit
against the construction of the sys-
TEN by private capital.
When asked if the condition of the
land titles, or lack of titles, in the
land to be irrigated did not rule out
a private enterprise. Henry answered
that it did not. He cited the Otero,
Henrylyn and Riverside districts as
three irrigation enterprises which
were put through while half the land
to be watered was held by the gov
ernment. though filed upon by set
tiers. He declares that AN irriga-
tion district formed on this land un-
der the state law would have no
trouble in selling bonds for the prof.
ect.
Henry adds that he is not in any
way responsible for the stoppage of
work on the government project, and
that he has made no attempt to in
fluence Secretary Ballinger on the
matter.
No engineers of the reclamation
service could be seen last night. 9th
er advocates of the government plan
to build the canal claim that Henrys
plans are not practicable. They claim
that the government engineers dis
cussed the plan to take the water out
at a place indicated by Henry, but
found that to do this and go above
the Palisade orchards would add
more than million 6nIIarG fo