The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-26
Western Slope Citizens Appeal
to Colorado for Fair PLAY

When Tom Devine the Pueblo attorney for the G. F..
L. strenuously opposed the endorsement of the Tri-
Committee, he did the interests of Pueblo
Colorado, those of the c. f. & alone. but he
New York masters the United Railroad Trust of America.
When Tom Devine inspired the ad against the tunnels
every newspaper of Colorado, he have known that
the money to provide for this tremendous expenditure
was ultimately to come from New York City and from
this United Railroad Trust.
Why does the United Railroad Trust oppose the Tri-
Tunnel Amendment? The answer is simple The Rail-
road Trust direct traversing
Colorado; they have cornered; they keep
cornered. They want to build Salt Lake. Omaha, Kansas
City and other middle and cities
and their states because they have their transconnenta
lines already established because these
being remote from the point of production of the
materials all be hauled there and back
The Rairoad Trust wants destroy Colorado its cities
and communities because these communities close to
the point of production and therefore not permit the
country graft The Railroad Trust
Is opposing the TrTunne Amendment because it knows
that through this tunnel construction and the unlimited
coal and natural thereby made available
Colorado manufactures will increase a hundred fold {;
the product will be finished the point of produc-
ton and the Railroad Trust will be forever denied the
two-way freight toll. They that through independ
ent ansconnenal railroad competition freight rates for
all Colorado will be reduced onehrd and that they will
not be able to rob us longer
The undersigned citizens residents of the West
Slope want the people of Colorado to know that the
widely published and expensive the United Railroad
Trust is deceptive deliberately following
particulars:
Mr.. Devine his Millionaire masters deliberately
mslead people of Colorado by representing
that the Tunnel Amendment was Denver scheme for
the building of the Mofat Tunnel alone when they knew
@ mat mat at the outset the toaI
funds had be apportoned the ree tunnels
ing to the estimated cost of EACH that be
transfer of funds from tunnel fund to another
until the particular tunnel has been completed that
Northwestern and Southwestern Colorado each has
sentation on the Railroad Commission and that one
tunnel can De built unless all three tunnels built
Tom Devine and his billionaire New York masters
sought to msead the people by representing
was not enough tonnage in Middlewesern and in South
Colorado a sufficient
the railroads to provide sinking fund with which pay
principal and interest on the tunnel bonds when
they know that today there tremendous heavily
congested tonnage, both in Mddewestem and South
Colorado and that the saving the railroads
fund sufficiently large to take of all interests and
principal charge They located in their ad the portals
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 the
Railroad Commission surveyors, are each within one
half mile distant the Grande Rail-
road as now located
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
Slope want Mr. Tom Devine and his Millionaire New
seeking to do the people of the State of Colorado
In blocking this constructive The larger por
to the School Fund. North and South Dakota and Min
well the manufacturing of the East
anthracite and semanthracite coal of the Western Slope
The royalty the School Fund from stimulated develop
ment of these wonderful coal mines will quickly mount
up to many millions. We beg Mr. Devine to inform his
multibionaire New York masters that in their fight
against this constructive they exerting their
colossal financial might to lessen and the
tuntes of ColOrado's school children
The undersigned citizens residents of the West
Slope want Tom Devine and his mut-bilonaire New
York masters to nearly all of the twenty-five
West Slope that in fighting this constructive
they essenng the opportunity of the East Slope
citizen to build and to own his home
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
Slope want Tom Devine and his mutbilonaire New
York know that when they block the building
tunnels they also people from de-
velopng the lands of the West Slope prevent the build
ing Of reservoirs they making it possible for the
people California to prior and vested right
in the waters the Colorado River which off
from Colorado water shed; and that result of
this policy they will prevent for all times irrigation
of large portion Western Slope and much
of that fertile empire to remain perpetual
irrigated nonproductive desert We want them to know
that when they development of the West Slope
they for all time the main burden of
maintaining the State Government the East Slope
taxpayer.
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
Slope want Tom Devine and his multiblionaire New
York know that they putting the jobbers
of Pueblo unenviable light For the merchants
and Southwestern Colorado have given the job
Pueblo their trade for and while they have
required during all this time to lift product
field many hundred feet in the air
again. the jobbers of Pueblo have attempted
come their relief yet, when is offered
that promises Middlewestern Colorado eaother broad
guage road reduction of feet lift, promises
THE NORTHWESTERN TUNNEL ASSOCIATION