The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-05-29
Water Power Schemes Again.

In the following true statement of the
case the Oil City Derrick voices the senti.
ment of every inhabitsnt of this whole
section ofcountry. This unholy scheme
must be thwarted, as we trust it will be,
by the State water supply commission
which has already killed one proposition
on the ground that it would be against
public interest to grant such extrsordi-
nary and unheard-of privileges. The
Derrick says:
The people of this locality, and especi-
ally those of Forest county and Oil City,
bad hoped that they had heard the last of
the scheme concocted by some private
parties to obtain control of the streams OF
this section, when the applications were
refused by the Water Supply Commission
two weeks ago. But the matter is still
being pressed, and notice has been pub.
lished that an application Will be made
corporation to be- called Forest Hydro
Electric Company, the character aud
object OF which is the storage, transporta-
ton aud furnishing of water for manu-
featuring and other purposes, and for the
erection, establishing, furnishing and
transmission for public use of water
power thereirom in the counties of Forest
Warren and Clarion" The application
is made by J. r. PAUL, J. p. Fife aud H.
W. Douglass, and the notice is signed by
Frank NJ. Eastman and by Douglass and
Fife as solicitors.
This is the same scheme and for the
same purpose as was the former spplica-
tion which the citizens of this section
succeeded in defeating by placing the
matter in its true light before the Water
Supply Commission, and showing that
the sentiment of the citizens was strongly
opposed to having any such privileges
granted. There are no new reasons why
this application should be given any
more favorable consideration than the
former one. The purposes contemplated
are the same as in the applications which
were disspproved, aud there is no change
in the situation no, in the sentiment of
the people. The same arguments hold
against the new move that were presented
in opposition to the first charters. The
fresh application is simply the old one
brought forward again.
1t proposes to dam the TioneSts, di-
vert its waters to another county, lessen
he Of In hn
and create a menace TO thousands of
dwellers in this valley, and depreciate
the investments of millions of dollars in
its industries. 1t is an unreasonable
scheme in its conception, injurious to a
large community in its object, and con-
slant danger to life and property in its
establishment.
The people have their work to do over
again in seeing that The water schemers
do not succeed in their purpose through
indifference. They may count on wear
ing out the patience of our citizens by re-
pested applications, and therefore prompt
action should be again taken to inform
Governor Tener and the Commission that
the people of this locality are as unalter-
ably opposed to the present application
as they were to the first one.
In this connection the following special
telegram 10 the Derrick from its Harris
burg correspondent under date OF May q,
is Of interest to our people:
The first intimation the members of the
State Water Supply Comm ission had that
another raid is to be attempted on the
waters of the Tionesta creek was to-day
when shown a statement in the Der
rick that the same parties who had
once before been refused charters for five
companies were now advertising their in
tention to again apply for the chartering
of a company TO do the very thing they
we're refused before. The application has
not yet reached the Water Commission,
but it was said today that even in its in
cipient stage, with only the statement
from the Derrick before them, the COM
missioners will look into it at its meeting
tomorrow, in order TO see If anything is
necessary to be done before the applica-
tion goes to Harrisburg in the regular
order of filing. If conditions are the
same as obtained when the others were
refused it is reasonably certain that this
prompt agitation of the question may foil
the conspirators, as the commission
turned the other applications down very
decidedly. Ofcourse no final action can
be taken until the application for the
charter is for rnslly before the commission
Meantime it behooves the people affected
by the new company TO be on the watch
at their end of the line.