The daily sentinel., 1913-05-10
OTTO PEEvED At.
A RESOLUTION
Of PRAISE
Trail Builder is Sore on
Commerce Chamber;
A Few Remarks.
IS WORk|MG ON ROAD

Glaue faFh, 'Olo., May ., 1919.
To The Daily Sentinel:
The sky is overcast-it looks prom
ising for the hundreds of acres of
plowed ground to get good soaking.
It's a good season for grass.
The resolution of the Grand juno
ton Chamber of Commerce voting de-
lay of the financing of the through
road over the Pinion Mesa way is not
taken very favorably. There has
been too much delay already. In
November, 1911, A. S. Nichols Den
yer Times writer made a trip through
here over to Paradox on to Placer
vile. Fred Shaffer, secretary of the
Grand Junction Chamber of Com
merce induced the Times to send a
man. There wasn't much time lost
making arrangements for the trip.
Grub was secured. The horses were
saddled, the burros packed and we
went In the interest of the Cham
Der CT Commerce of Grand Junction.
To my knowledge not cent was put
up by that honorable body. tat least
didn't receive any. Several good
write-ups appeared boosting the
whole country to the south and west
Of Grand Junction. Great and suffi-
cient mention was made at that time
vi tht possiDlllllts vi part Vi lne
Transcontinental line to go through
this way. tstating the many advan-
tages over the desert route). Shortly
after returning from that trip land
no fun 1t was the last night in that
November storm we had) the Glade
Park road was started Money was
raised for a survey. What has the
Chamber of Commerce done towards
building this road up to this time?
Their motto has been: The way of
Least Resistance. THE way of Least
Resistance Is the one that leads us
to eternal damnation if we pay any
heed at all to preaching). We have
been waiting for state funds during
last SUMMER. but when election re-
turns were in we saw there was no
show. Then we as individuals push
ed the road and started work the first
Monday in January The secretary
of the Grand Junction Chamber of
Commerce came up our way to see
Glade Park people about the county
division proposition. He failed to
make connections and returned the
same day. He saw four OF us work
ing-going a mile up the hill over
the snowy trail to work We needed
someone-yes awful bad-to help get
thih % Hioi III NsottsSfttt- ~ dtl'---los get
people Interested III the road. Nat
urally the Grand Junction Chamber
of Commerce was the organization
that should have had man in the
game with us. But what did we get
nothing but another Resolution of
Delay even now. There appeared in
great enough letters the story of the
first car across the Divide in The
Sentinel yesterday: Midland Trail
Now Open" Westgard didn't travel
that way at all But because the
road by way of Mack over the
treacherous desert was logged, the
Grand Junction Chamber of Com
merce lends all its aid towards get
ting funds from county and state and
individuals to get that road patched
up. We are not doing any patch
ing over our way The way of least
resistance means connecting Grand
Junction with water tank tat
Cisco, We have no use for these,
people who continually tell us 1--WE
can't get that Hoosier party through
cur way" The cant" people are
very common in this world We are
not trying to upset any plans of the
Midland Trail Association. They are
not asked to even mix our way. But
We are after county and state funds
and we are playing the game the way
we've learned it, 1t is only fair to
state. that a petition for the proper
recognition of cur road was presented
to the county commissioners long be-
fore the Midland Trail Association
was born"
JOHN OTTO