Gilpin observer., 1920-10-28
Western Slope Citizens Appeal
to Colorado for Fair Play

When Tom Devine the Pueblo attorney for the G. F.
l., strenuousy opposed the endorsement of the Tri-
Tunnel Amendment before the Republican State Platform
Committee he did not represent the interests Of Pueblo
represented chiefly the special interests Of his Millionaire
When Tom Devne inspired the ad against the tunnels
that to fill from one-quarter whole page in
every newspaper Colorado he must have known that
the money provide for this tremendous expenditure
was ultimately to come from New York City and from
this same United Railroad Trust
Why does the United Railroad Trust oppose the Tri-
Tunnel Amendment? The answer is simple. The Rail
road Trust has direct raversng
cornered They build Salt Lake, Omaha, Kansas
City and other middle and far eastern and western cities
lines already established centers
being more remote from the point of production of the
The wants to destroy Colorado it's cities
and communities because these communities
two-way country tonnage graft Railroad Trust
is opposing the TriTunnel Amendment because
coal power and natural thereby made available
Colorado manufactures will increase hundred fold !;
the raw product will be finished the point of produc
ton and the Railroad Trust will be forever denied the
two-way freight toll They know that through independ
ent transconnenta rarond competition, freight for
all Colorado will be reduced one-thrd and that they will
not be able to rob us longer.
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
ern Slope want the people of Colorado to know that the
widely published and expensive ad of the United Railroad
Trust deceptive and deliberately false in the following
particulars:
Mr.. Devine and his Millionaire masters deliberately
sought to misead the people of Colorado representing
that the Tunnel Amendment was a Denver scheme for
the building of the Moffat Tunnel alone when they
that the bill itself provided that the three tunnels
be built contemporaneousy, that the the
funds had to be apportoned the three tunnels accord
ing to the estimated cost of each that there be
transfer of funds from one tunnel fund to another
until the. particular tunnel has been completed, that
Northwestern and Southwestern Colorado each repre-
sentation on the Railroad Commission and that
tunnel can be built unless all three tunnels built
Tom Devne md his bilonalre New York masters
sought to msead the people by representing that there
0lp\Na and in th
western Colorado TO enable sufficient charge against
the railroads TO provide sinking fund with which pay
off the principal and interest the bonds when
they know that today there is tremendous and heavily
congested tonnage both in Mlddlewestem and South
Colorado and thai the saving to the railroads
in the use of the tunnels will easily provide sinking
fund sufficiently large of all interests
principal charge They located in their ad the portals
of the southwestern tunnel many miles the Denver
Rio Grande Railroad, when they knew that both the
East and West portals of the Cumbres Pass Tunnel
fixed by the Denver Rio Grande engineers and the
Railroad Commission surveyors, each within
half mile distant the roadbed Rio
road as now located.
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
ern Slope want Mr. Tom Devine and his Millionaire New
York masters know the enormty the injury they
are seeking TO do to the people of the State of Colorado
in blocking this constructive measure. The larger
ton of the workable coal of the Western Slope belongs
to the School Fund. North and South Dakota and Min
nesota, well the manufacturing of the East
slope of Colorado are in special need of the bumnous
anthracite and semanhracte coal of the Western Slope
The royalty the School Fund stimulated develop
ment of these wonderful coal mines will quickly
up to many millions We beg Mr. Devine to inform his
nulti-blionare New York that their fight
against this constructive they exerng their
colossal financial might 10 lessen and the oppor
untes of Coorados school children.
The undersigned citizens residents of the West
Slope Tom Devne and his multi millionaire New
York masters know that nearly all of the five
billion feet of standing timber in Colorado is upon the
West slope and that in fighting his constructive
they lessening the opportunity the East Slope
citizen To build and to own his home
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
Slope want Tom Devne and his multibillionaire New
York masters to know that when they block the building
veopng the lands of the West Slope, the build
ng of reservoirs that they making II possible for the
people of California to prior and vested right
In the waters of the Colorado River which off
from the Colorado shed; and that : Il result OF
this policy they Will prevent for all times Irrigation
portion of the Western Slope and much
of that vast fertile empire remain perpetual
TINT when they block the development, of the West Slope
they will concentrate for all time the main burden of
maintaining the state Government upon the East Slope
taxpayer
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
York know that they putting the iobbers
of Pueblo in unenvabe light. For the merchants
people of Southwestern Colorado have the job
hers of Pueblo their trade for and while they have
required during all this lift every product
field and mine many hundred feet the
IL again. the obbers of Pueblo have attempted
to their relief yet when Is offered
guegc reduction Of 1900 OF li:t. promise
THE NORTHWESTERN TUNNEL AssocIATIo