Gilpin observer., 1920-10-28

of many hundred feet lift the shortening Of the roaA
the snow Cumbres Pass promises them an adequate
transportation outlet which the Rio Grande authorities
mutbiionaire New York masters would lead the peo.
pie of Southwestern Colorado to believe that the Pueblo
people Middle Southwest Colorado from secur-
ing an adequate transportation outlet.
60 The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
cial masters of the railroad world with the hope
now when the state itself without asking their aid s
seeking through this measure they
may at the last moment reconsider and in their
cold selfish plot for the West Slopes destruction.
We call the c. F. & Us special attention to the fact
that In 1914 when through>the G. F. rs trouble with
its own employees, million dollar insurrection
citizens universally loyal and stood their portion
of this debt which they had in the making
without complaint.
state development and present it to these powerful
transportation need; yet we have little hope that will
reach sympathetic ears. For remember that it
the codbooded United Railroad recently
crushed the little Denver Laramie that blocked the
Colorado shippers and consumers the great Galveston
gateway, that from Mr.. Moffat Holland and
York Bankers after sufficient support had been pledged
to build the Moffat Tunnel and to complete the Mofat
powerful combination now controls the bond holders
mee of the Moffat Road, and prevents that Committee
from destruction. We believe that that powerful com
bnation in New FORK is determined mat the Union Pa
cfc passing with Its transcontnenal line through
Wyoming the North the Santa Fe and the Southern
Pacific skirting Colorado the South shall have
organization has decreed the junkng of the Mofat
from Denver Oak Creek and decreed that
the only outlet the people of Northwestern Colorado shall
be allowed is a spur line from the Union Pacific, in
Wyoming, down to Craig and short line from Craig
railroad combination has decreed that the only real
let Southwestern Colorado shall be allowed is spur
line connecting with the Santa Fe in New Mexico.
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
ern slope beg that the people of the East Slope be not
prejudced by the deceptive advertisement of Tom De-
vine and his multi-bionaire New York masters These
advertisements not Colorado advertisements They
are against the pioneers and the home builders of North
western. Mddlewestern and Southwestern Colorado, and
solely in the interests of the great railroad magnates of
New York, who have their established and competing
lines to the North and to the South They have forced
Tom Devine and the c. F. l. take up their cudgel,
not alone because the C. f. & coal mines the
East Slope chiefly these United railroads
the purchasers of the rails and other output the
great C. r. |. Corporation. But of the West Slope
call attention that Governor Ammons Governor Buchte,
Hadley and President Charles Lory Agricultural
College Dr. Noran of the University John Morris of the
Grange every Colorado patriot and Colo
RADIO builder has endorsed this constructive
We citizens of the West Slope earnestly call
the attention of the business of Canon City, Pueblo
Colorado Springs, Boulder Fort Collins. and Greeley
the fact that they have had the benefit of having the
great State Institutions located in their cities,
md that the West slope citizens have willingly pro-
vded their proportion of the taexs for the support of
these great state institutions, that have received
upon the West Slope scarcely state funds whatever for
such purposes and we ask now not to listen the
appeal of sectional prejudice ennnating from Wall Street
through the lips and pen of Tom Devine, but that
consider your state its closer uncaton its de-
velopment and our desperate transportation needs We
feasible. that there is sufficient tonnage without
further development to insure saving the railroads
sufficient to take of the tunnel bonds We
vnced from most thorough investigation that the
will only have lend its credit for this tunnel construc
tion. and that 1t will not add dollar of the
taxpayers of the State of Colorado.
Citizens of the East Slope West Slope will pro-
vide opportunity for your children tomorrow just your
section provided opportunity for you yesterday. We
joined hands with in providing funds and soldiers
when our common government was in peril. We want
to be Joined closer economically and commercially
We of the Northwest do want to be all
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Pacific in Wyoming. They of the Southwest do
to be limited for all time little spur line running up
from New Mexico We glad to secure any of these
roads but want primarily be joined to the great
industrial and commercial centers of
the East Slope. We want to have these centers
ke for our fruit for cattle sheep, hogs and
the products of mine well field. We also
the home and factory builder of the East Slope be
able to tap conl mines, to reach forests. We
to build the school fund in the interest Of pub
lie schools. We want tn develop water and
erty values that may do much more in sustaining
the great state institutions of the East Slope
maintaining the expense of state government We
want Colorado 10 become greater manufacturing well
greater agricultural and mining state. We you
to join with In the biggest constructive
put before the State Colorado. residents
and citizens cf the West Slope. whose prosperity and
future depends securing adequate
outlet ask to disregard the shrewd and deceptive
ads, the powerful appeal to prejudice and sectional
Of Tom Devne his multibillionars New York mas.
ters, and vote for the TrTunnel Amendment, Alnen:
ment No. g.