The daily sentinel., 1912-01-12
POST MAKES SCURR|LOUS
ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT
CONSTRUCTION Of CANAL
Claims Falsely That Uncle Sam Never Intends 10 Complete the
Structure Is Answered by Engineer Miner
and Secretary AupperIe.

Inspired by private irrigation Interests which have been
tempting for months steal the the divert
to the eastern slope the Denver Post willing tool for sale
the highest bidder has opened vicious UNJUST lying and WHOLLY
characteristic attack on the government construction of the High
Line canal
the Wednesday under thar caption known SO long
the preface reacherou and scurous acatons-So the
the local federal project Its argnens statements are
tissue of untrfs and charges aga local citizens
less believers where the truth is known
The article evidently the behest of the Hcnryyn irri
CATION project that its origin will damn any careful reader who
lis acquainted with the situation surrounding the fight of the
en slope to save its waters from wholesale diversion by
slope enterprises
loqueny declares that will save the peoples money from
poaton 1t declares that federal Intervention with private plans
stop and nfe that it will force the proposition into the
courts for a decision
After reviewing with preudiced pen the history of negoa
tons for the High Line the Post that all probability the
government will never complete the project
The estimated of the project by the government eng
neers is about S4ooooooneay $40 The secretary
the interior has appooned 100000 from the general recama
ton fund and Soooooo from the S2ooooooo loan voted by
total cost Should coneae later fober CON
ructon then stop for there is little probability that the gen
ea fund WILL decades be sufficiently augmented OF
there would be loss but the has already abandoned
projects which than million dollars has been wasted
Further expenditure the Grand valley project would be
proposed but FOR the Soooooo assigned out the 2ooooooo
he statements made by the Post that the Grand valley pro
e had been begun and would be completed
false 1t is the intention of the government complete this
for their allotment of the funds but will be Completed said
Engineer H. Miner OF the local project this morning 1T IS
who wanted western slope water he added.
There getting excited about this attack sad d.
w Aupper secretary the Grand Valley Water Users
ton "he of the Grand river belong the slope
hey will be needed for the irrigation project and
will be protected"
The Post made these charges 1T charged that local
Water Users association, composed eXcuve of private land
holders refuses the occupants of the lands
share that organization and have usurped all local direction
and manipulating the reclamation service plans their private
ends The Post proposes if the the people of this
and other be used exploit private land speculation
and meantime dog the manger policy abetted b the
government.
In regard the above Mr. Aupperle said: 'Unde
ces of Incorporation which approved by the Secretary
the Interior under these articles homesteader public lands
become of this association and have already done
so Fully of the lands under the project govern
lands subject homestead and these will be developed
under the and the the lands
Another speous argument that the High Line project has
really been started and for that should share
preliminary be considered
work by the Post but possibly the actual work
the canal just prior the order of Former Secretary Richard A.
Banger would satisfy the mind of the Post editor
as to the of actual construction
The most mJustifable charges made in the whole hing
however attack the local Water Users association The
directors of this organization who have for been bearing
1.-THE burden of work bringing the High Line to
calamity the early continuation of work. de-
caed be manipulating the reclamation service plans their
private ends If these such buccaneers the Post
ers would likely that there should be little dssatis
with their activities but if such the among the
land claimants the obectng faction has made its
public.
Moreover private parties and irrigation district
repeatedly proered build the but defeated
the would the public lands mvo
ed The possibility that the construction of the by
capital has been continuously discouraged by the whole people of
the has probably occurred the Post spa
ton the Henryyn people There have truly,