The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-09-26
Denver, Colo, August 22.

Mr., Henry r. Rhone,
Grand Junction, Colo.
My Dear Mr.. Rhone:-I am in re-
ceipt of your letter of the 18th in
slant.
/ have never attempted to interfere
with the warden in any respect as to
where he should place his men. If /
had any interest. it, of course. woul
be to have some of the roads around
Denver worked with convict labor,
because Denver pays more than one
fourth of the taxes and has never re-
ceiyed a particle of benefit from the
working of the convicts.
The road between Denver and Col
den was, by legislative act, directed
to be built by an appropriation Of S5,-
600 by the state; the county commits
sioners of jefferson county voted also
$4,000; the citizens living along the
road contributed $4,000, and one par
ty agreed to build one half mile of
the road himself at a cost of not less
than 1000.
If Denver does not get any of the
convict labor, surely no other county
would have cause to complain, at
least against me, for not sending con-
ytcts to their counties. You will have
to take this matter up with Mr. Ty-
nan. | have no objections whatever
to his putting the convicts whereyer
he deems it best. OF course, the
closer to Canon City the convict
camps are, the easier they are over
seered; and, hence, Mr.. Tynan's OPP
erations have been mostly in reason
able distance of the penitentiary
where he can summons guards in
large numbers.
The old Santa Fe trail was built
mostly by convict labor; but YOU
must remember that there are sixty
counties in this state, and every one
OF them would like to have ccnvi,ts
| brought to their counties. So YOU
had better take the matter up with
| Warden lyman; and whatever he de-
termines will be satisfactory to me-
| have not refused to allow praCti-
cal engineers to draw plans for the
proposed state bridge across the
Grand river; | have not insisted that
the state engineer draw the plans and
the bridge be built by them. | do
not Interfere in the state engineers
department ! have enough troubles
without attempting to determine en-
gineering problems.
have just been over to see the en-
gineer, and he says that he is per-
feetly willing, if he is relieved of re-
sponsibility, to allow any engineer
the Mesa County commissioners may
select to draw the plans and build the
bridge in accordance Herewith. He
says the last communication he had
from the county commissioners was
that they wanted the piers cut down.
so as to take advantage of bid of
Mr.. Paterson, and that they wanted
him to re-draw plans for that pur-
pose; that since that time he has re-
ceived word that Mr.. Patterson with
drew his bid, predicated upon such
reduced piers, but that he was pro-
eeeding to draw plans for the piers.
In every talk | have had with the
county commissioners have told
them that they put up most of the
money and should have almost the
entire say in the construction of the
bridges, and | am sure that the state
engineer agrees with me in that
II the county commissioners will
indicate exactly what they want, |
am sure there will be no trouble, as
want the bridge built in accordance
with their desires.
Yours truly
JOHN +. SHAFROTH,
Governor