The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-17
FISHER ME n FEAR
POWER COMP ANY
ENFORCEMENT
Want Proposed Charter Amend
ed in Their Interest
PETITION TO LEGISLATURE
Ask That Ponds be Cleared of
stumps and That No Private Pri-
vileges be Granted.
PETITION TO LEGISLATURE
To the Editor of the Banner:

To the Editor of the Banner:
AS stated in your issue of Satur-
day. December IA, / have opposed
certain features of bill introduced
into the legislature to incorporate the
Southern Vermont Light and Power
Company | have now drafted, at the
request of the Legislative Commit
tee of the Bennington County Fish
and Game Club, petition to the Leg
eslature, embodying the reasons FOR
my opposition, with which the mem
bers of this committee are in full &C
cord. / shall appreciate 1t II you VIII
give me space in your columns 10
set forth this petition, outlining the
objections, in order that the public
may be informed as to certain-phases
of the proposed charter and crystal
ize it's opinion thereon. | should ike
to request that all those who are in
favor of this petition cut it out from
the Banner, paste sheet OF paper at
the bottom, sign their name and get
such other signatures as they can,
and then deliver the petition to mem
bers of the Fish and Game Club or
mail to Edward Higgins, County
Game Warden, Main street. Benning-
ton. VT. All the signatures will then
be presented to the legislature to-
gether.
Readers of the Banner will fecall
the great struggle in New York state
about FIVE years ago to save the Aoi
rondacks from similar despoliation.
| believe that we in Vermont are now
face to face with an equal danger.
have for some time had the general
problem on my mind. and have consi-
dered requesting the introduction OF
a bill to cover it, but have hesitated
lest might be accused of barking up
a tree that had no coon in It, 1t was
not until ! reached Montpelier last
Thursday that | discovered a real,
live coon, In the shape of the Camp
Comfort owners and their agreement
with the proposed company for an ex-
elusive lake. If the corporation is al
lowed to carry out this agreement,
we will lose not only several miles OF
good stream, through its beilg con
fined in steel trunks which is a ne
cessary and inevitable deprivation If
power is to be developed. but also
that portion of the s,ream which is
to be converted into a lake. Then to
make the measure heaping, the lake
will be closed to the public.
might add that it Is a character
istic of coons to go high up and hang
on tight Accordingly 1t will require
the united efforts of all those inter
ested in the attractiveness and popu-
larity of Vermont as place to live
in, either winter or summer, to bring
them to bag. The petition follows:
Petition to the Legislature OF the
State of Vermont
WHEREAS, a bill has been intro
duced into the legislature OF the
State of Vermont, known as House
Bill Number 412, entitled AN ACT
TO INCORPORATE THE SOUTH
ERN VERMONT LIGHT AND POW
Err COMPANY, and
WHEREAS, the said proposed
Southern Vermont Light and lower
Company is to have the right and
power under said bill to acquire, pur-
chase, lease and hold land aid other
real estate, water rights. riparian
rights and the right of diverting the
waters of water courses, and to build
and maintain dams for the storage
and diversion of water, upon the
streams and rivers in the towns o.
Woodford, Bennington, Stamford,
Glastonbury and Sunderland in the
county of Bennington, and to acquire,
purchase and hold any and all ponds
upon any of the Aforesaid streams or
at the sources of the same, and to
raise the level and increase the area
and volume thereof, and to take ant
divert the waters of said streams,
and
WHEREAS, the sweeping provi-
sions Of said bill empower the said
proposed Southern Vermont Light
and Power Company to flow large
areas of land now possessing great
scenic attractions and used and en-
joyed by the public generally for re-
creation and vacation purposes, which
use and enjoyment will be destroyed
by the f1owage of such lands without
| first clearing the lands, and further
empower the said proposed company
to take from the public whole rivers
or streams, or portions Of them,
which have at all times heretofore
1 been open to the public for such pur.
poses and privileges as the public has
always had in any Of the public wa
tiers Of the state; and
WHEREAS. II has developed, at a
public hearing on said bill, held by
the House Committee on Corporations
in Montpelier, Thursday, December
IL, that the said proposed Southern
Vermont Light and Power Company
has planned specifically to flow large
areas OF land at the head waters Of
the Walloomsac River, the MAR
stream Of the town Of Bennington