The Dolores star., 1920-10-29

of many hundred feet lift the shortening the ron,
several miles of Its heaviest grade the elimination o
transportation outlet, which the Rio Grande authorize
long recognized as necessity Devne and hi
multi thilIionsre New York masters would lead the peo
pie of Southwestern Colorado believe that the Pueb
obbers have also Joined in the conspiracy to prevent
people of the Middle and Southwest Colorado from secur
ing an adequate transportation outlet
The undersigned citizens and residents Of the Wes
Slope are making this plea to Tom Devne and the fnan
cal masters of the railroad world with the hope tina
when the itself without asking their aid.
seeking to through this constructive measure the
may the last reconsider and in thei
cold selfish plot for the West slopes destruction
We call the c. F. 4 is special attention to the fac
that in 1914 when through the c. F. Is trouble witt
its own employees, million dollar nsurrection debt VA
fastened upon the people of Colorado the West SLOPE
of this great debt which they had part in the making
without complaint.
But while our plea is q plea of state unification OF
state development, and present it these powerful
financial powers because OF very desperation Of
transportation need vet we have little hone that II viii
reach sympathetic For remember that It wa
the same dblooded United Railroad Trust that recently
crushed the little Denver Laramie that blocked to tht
Colorado shippers and consumers the great Galveston
gateway that tore from Mr. Moffa the Holland and Ne"
York Bankers after sufficient support had been pledged
to build the Mofnt Tunnel, and to complete the Moffa
road to Salt Lake. We believe that cold bloodet
powerful combination controls the bond holders
mtee of the Moffat Road and prevents that Committee
from endeavoring to do anything to the Mofa
from destruction We believe that that powerful com
bnation in New York is determined tnat the Union Pa
cific passing with Its transcontinental line through
Wyoming to the North. the Santa Fe and Southern
competitor. We feel convinced that this multibonairt
organization has decreed the unkng of Roac
the only outlet the people Of Northwestern Colorado sha
be allowed is spur line from the Union Pacific, II
wyoming down to Craig, and short line from Craie
to Oak Creek We believe further thnt this powerfu
railroad combination has decreed that the only
let Southwestern Colorado shall be allowed spuI
line connecting with the Santa Fe in New Mexico
The undersigned citizens and residents the West
neg h a' ina te people or the East Slope be not
vine and his mutibillionare York masters These
advertisements are not Colorado advertisements They
are against the pioneers and the home builders
western, Middlewesern and Southwestern Colorado and
solely in the interests of the railroad magnaes
New YORK, who have their established and competing
lines to the North and to the South They fore
Tom Devne and the c. F. I. to take up their cudgel
not alone because the c. f. l. coal mines on the
East Slope but chiefly because these United railroad
are the purchasers of the rails output of the
great c. F. l. Corporation But of the West Slope
Hadley and President Charles Lory the Agricultural
College Dr. Norlan of the University Morris of the
state Grange and other Colorado and Colo
RADIO builder has endorsed this constructive measure
We citizens of the West Slope most earnestly call
the attention Of the business of Canon City Pueblo
Colorado Springs, Boulder Fort Collins and Greeley To
the fact that they have had the benefit of vinr the
great State Institutions located their several cities
ana that the West Slope citizens have willingly pro-
Vided their proportion Of the for the support of
these great state institutions that have received
upon the West Slope scarcely funds for
such purposes and ask not to listen TO ths
appeal of sectional prejudice emanang from Wall
through the lips and Of Tom Devins but that YOU
consider your state Its closer unfcaon Its greater de-
velopment and desperate transportation needs We
pledge you that these three tunnels are practical and
feasible that there is sufficient tonnage now without
further development to insure saving to the
sutcent to take care Of the tunnel bonds We are
vnced from most thorough Investigation that the
VIII only have to lend Its credit this tunnel
ton and that 1t Will not add dollar of taxes Ia the
taxpayers of the State Of Colorado "
Citizens Of the East Slope West Slime will mo-
Vde opportunity for your children tomorrow us ., vonr
secton provided opportunity for you Yesterday Wa
joined hands with you in providing funds and soldiers
"h.h our common government In peril. We want
10 De joined closer to economically and commerciav
time upon little spur line down from the Un,on
Pacific In Wyoming They of the Southwest do NOT
to be limited for nll time little spur line running in
from New Mexico. We glad secure anv of n 900
roads put we want primarily be Joined to the graat
industrial and commercial centers our own sta m
the East slope we want to have these csnters a, m.
ket Tor our fruit for cattle sheen our hoe,
the home and factory builder the East slona 20 ~
able TO tap our coal mines, reach our forest. W.
want to build the school fund the interest of th s
tic SCHOOLS we want to develop water and our
erty Vhlues mat we may do much more in sn.t. inn
the greht state institutions Of the East Sope ana h.,
maintaining the expense Of state government w.
want Coorauo 10 become greater manufacturing a. Iii
to Join with us In the biggest constructive you
was ever put before the State of Colorado We res,d
ana citizens OF the West Slope whose nro.no.a
ruture depends upon securing adequate
outlet ask you to disregard the shrewd and Geren.,
hns e powerful appeal to prejudice and sectiono
Of Iom DeVine and his multi-bionaire New Yort ~.
ters, and vote for the Trl-Tunne Amendment k mas
ment No 5. Amend
OF RouTT, MoFFAT AND GRAND COUNTIES.