The daily sentinel., 1910-07-18
TRIBUTE
To |NTERURbAN
LINE BUILDERS

HttI lut caption sorry W OulQ
Not Participate" Walter Walker. ed
itor of the Ouray Plaindealer. pays
glowing tribute to the Grand valley
and the men who made the interur-
ban railway reality. His splendid
article is as follows:
THE editor of the Plaindealer ac-
knowledges receipt OF an invitation
from the Grand Junction & Grand
River Valley Railway Company TO at
tend the opening of its magnificent
line between Grand junction and
Fruita, the first interurban road to
be built in western Colorado and the
opening of which occurred on Thurs
day Of this week TRANSFORMATION for
the initial trip was also enclosed.
The editor would have found
great pleasure in attending and par
ticipating in the extensive exercises
and enjoying the big entertainment
features carried out by the company.
the city of Grand Junction and the
town of Fruita in celebration of the
memorable event, for he had the
pleasure of writing for The Daily
Sentinel the first and extended an
nouncement of the fact that the in
terurban was to be constructed. and
of attending and reporting the vari-
GUS big meetings held throughout
Mesa county to arouse interest in the
big and important project.
I'm the opening of this strictly
modern, superb interurban, affording
the most up-to-date passenger and
express facilities through one OF the
richest fruit and agricultural dis
tricts in the world, Grand Junction
and the Grand valley realizes one of
their fondest hopes. The interurban,
along with the Orchard Mesa irriga-
ton project, now completed. and the
mighty High Line canal project, soon
to be under way, stand as the great
est factors in one of the most remark
able marches of progress and growth
any American community has ever
witnessed or enjoyed.
The opening of the interurban
was in every way brilliant and aus
picious affair Prominent men from
all over Colorado We're present. in
cluding brilliant representatives OF
all the big dailies. Throughout the
state II is recognized that Grand
functions interurban road means
new era of growth and development
for all of western Colorado and is the
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a network of interurbau roads Join
ing every county on the western
slope.
The men who built our sister
city's street-car system aud then the
tnterurban are men any section would
like to have interested in its growth.
Personally We know they are men
who have the wherewithaI and the
inclination to do big things and who
delight in the general prosperity OF
any section in which they become in
terested. Among these men OF finance
and lieutenants of progress are c. NJ.
MacNeill, 7. z. Curtin. 4 A. Sun
derlin and Orson Adams.
1t is only right that il should be
said that the opening of Western
Colorado's first interurban road is
another great victory for that tire
less and effective army of boosters
for which Grand Junction is famous
aud men whose faith in the Grand
valley has never wavered. Among
the old guard and pioneer boosters.
VINO nave toiled through the years to
see the Grand valley come into its
own, are those stalwarts, Orson Ad-
ans. |. \. Bunting. Henry R. Rhone,
John f, Moore. Samuel c. McMullin,
Edwin Price and others: and among
the members of the valiant brigade of
the newer-blood boosters are those
aggressive workers in the vineyard
OF progress. Thomas Mahony tthe
best Chamber of Commerce secretary
In Colorado), Karl A. Bickel. Sterling
b. Lacy, c. h. Cherrington and many
others.
And splendid little town,
with its wide-awake and up-to-da te
citlzens-marches right along. step
by step. with her big sister: and her
snare in the benefits from the inter
urban Will be deservedly large"