Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-10-29
Western Slope Citizens Appeal
to Colorado for Fair Play

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When Tom Devlne the Pueblo attorney for the c. F.
l. strenuously opposed the endorsement of the Tri-
Committee, he did not the interests of Pueblo
Colorado. those of the G. f. /. alone. but he
represented chiefly the special interests of his bonare
New York masters the United Railroad Trust of America
that to fill from onequarter whole page in
newspaper of Colorado he must have known that
the money to provide for this tremendous expenditure
ultimately to 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 ranscentinenal line raversng
Colorado; they have cornered; they want to keep
cornered. They want to build Salt Lake Omaha, Kansas
City andsother middle and far cities
and their states because they their
lines already established ereand because these centers
being remote from the point of production of the
materials, all must be hauled there and back
The Railroad Trust destroy Colorado its cities
and communities because these communities close to
the point Of production and therefore do permit the
twoway country graft The Railroad Trust
is opposing the TriTunne Amendment because it knows
that through this tunnel construction and the unlimited
coal power and natural resource thereby made available
Colorado manufactures Will increase hundred fold
the product win be finished at the point of produc
tion and the Railroad Trust will be forever denied the
freight toll. They know that through ndepend
all Colorado will be reduced onehird and that they will
not be able to rob us longer.
The undersigned citizens and residents of the
Slope the people of Colorado know that the
widely published and expensive ad of the United Railroad
Trust deceptive and deliberately false in the following
particulars:
Mr. Devlne and his Millionaire deliberately
sought msead the people of Colorado by representing
that the Tunnel Amendment was Denver scheme
the building the Moffat Tunnel alone when they knew
that the bill itself provided that the three tunnels
be built contemporaneousy. that Mt the outset the total
funds had to be apportoned to the three tunnels accord
Ing TO the estimated cost of each, that there be no
transfer OF funds from one tunnel fund to another
until the particular tunnel has been completed, that
Northwestern and Southwestern Colorado euch has
sentatlon on the Railroad Commission and that one
tunnel be bs unless all three tunnels built.
Tom Devine and his bionnire New York masters
sought to mislead the people by representing that there
not enough tonnage In MlueweStefn and in South
western Colorado to enube sufficient charge against
the railroads to provide sinking fund with which pay
off the principal and interest the tunnel bonds when
they know that today there is tremendous and deayiy
congested Tonnage both In Middlewesteln and South
In the use of the tunnels will easily provide sinking
fund sufficiently large to take of all interests and
principal chnrgc AThey located in their ad the portals
Of the southwestern tunnel many miles Denver
\ Rio Grande, Railroad when they knew that both the
East and West portals Cuinbres Pass Tunnel us
fixed by the Denver Rio Grande engineers and the
Railroad Commission surveyors, are each within one
half mile distant from the roadbed Rio Rail-
road us now located.
The undersigned citizens residents of the
ern Slope want Mr.. Tom Devne and his Millionaire New
York masters know the enormity of the injury fey
nre seeking to do to the people of the State Of Colorado
In blocking this constructive The larger por
ton of the workable coal of the Western Slope belongs
to the School Fund. North and South Dakota Mln
nesota. well the manufacturing the East
Slope of Colorado in special need of the btumnous
anthracite and semanracte coal of the Western slope
The royalty 10 the School Fund from stimulated develop
ment of these wonderful coal mines will quickly mount
up many millions. We beg Mr. Devine inform his
multibilonaire New York that in their fight
against this constructive measure they exerng their
colossal financial might to lessen and the oppor
tunities of Colorados school children
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
Slope want Tom Devine and his multi millionaire New
York mnsters know that nearly all OF the twenty-five
billion feet of sanding timber In Colorado is upon the
West Slope, and that in fighting This constructive
they are essenng the opportunity of the East Slope
citizen to build and to his home.
Tie Undersigned citizens residents o the West
Slope wnnt Tom Devine and his multi Millionaire New
York masters to know that when they block the building
Of these three tunnels they also people de-
velopng- the lands of tire West Slope prevent the build
Ing OF reservoirs that they making possible the
people of California to prior and right
in the waters of the Colorado River which are
this policy they VIII prevent for all irrigation
OF large portion of the Western Slope
OF that fertile empire remain perpetual
Irrigated, nonproductive desert We them
that when they block the development of the West Slope
they will for all time the main burden
maintaining the State Government the East Slope
taxpayer.
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
Slope want Mr. Tom Devine and his multiblionare New
York know that they putting the jobbers
of Pueblo In unenyable light. For the merchants
and people of Southwestern Colorado have given the job
berS of Pueblo their trade and while they have
been required during o this time to lift product
field and many hundred in the lower
eieir relief; when measure is offered
that promises Middlewesern Colorado another broad
guage rond reduction of 1900 feet of lift. promises
Southwestern Colorado broad road reduction
THE MORT HWEsTERN TUNNEL Associates