The Ordway new era., 1920-10-29

many hundred feet lift the shortening of the rond
several miles of its heaviest grade the elimination OF
the Cumbres Pass, promises them adequate
transportation outlet WHICH the Rio Grande authorities
multi millionaire New York would lead the peo-
Pile Southwestern Colorado to believe that the Pueblo
people of the Middle and Southwest Colorado from
ing an adequate transportation outlet.
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
Slope making plea Tom Devine the fnan-
cin masters of the railroad world with the hope that
seeking carry through this constructive measure they
may at the last moment reconsider and cease in their
We call the c. f. & lis special attention to the
1914, when, through the G. F. LIS trouble with
its own employees a million dollar insurrecton debt
fastened upon the people of Colorado the West Slope
citizens were universally loyal and stood their portion
of this great debt which they had no part in the making
without complaint.
But while pea is plen of state unifieotion, of
state development and we present 1t to these powerful
powers of the very desperation of
transportation need have little hope that 1t Will
the cod.booded United Railroad Trust that recently
crushed the little Denver Laramie that blocked to the
Colorado shippers and the great Galveston
gateway that Mr. Moffat the Holland and New
Bankers after sufficient had been pledged
to build the Moffa Tunnel and to complete the Mofat
road Salt Lake. We believe that same coldblooded
powerful combination controls the bond holders com
mtee of the Moffat Rond and that Committee
from endenvorng to do ANYTHING to save the Mont road
bnuton in New York is determined That the Union Pa
@ passing % win @o its M so0a M nna line line
Pacific skirng Colorado the South shall have real
organization junking the Moffat Road
from Denver to Oak Creek and decreed that for all times
be allowed is spur line from the Union Pacific, In
Wyoming, down to Craig, and short line from Craig
Oak Creek We believe further that this powerful
railroad combination has decreed that the only real out
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
oey sy the of Tom De-
vine and his mutibilonnire New York masters These
against pioneers the builders of North
western Middewestern and Southwestern Colorado md
New York, who have their established and competing
lines to the North and to the South They have forced
Tom Devine and the G F; to take up their eudgsl
Slope. but chiefly because these United railroads
the purchasers of the rails and other output of the
great c. f. /. Corporation But of the West Slope
call attention that Governor Ammons, Governor Buchtel
College Dr. Norlan of the University John
State Grange and other Colorado patriot and Colo
RADIO builder has endorsed this constructive measure
we citizens of the Slope earnestly call
the attention of the business men of Canon city ueb
Colorado Springs Boulder Fort Collins and Greeley @ ia
gren Institutions located in their several cities,
vded their proportion of the taexs support OF
these great state institutions, that we have received
such purposes and ask you now not to listen 10 tho
appeal sectional prejudice emanating from Wall Street
through lips pen Of Tom Devine. but that you
your its closer unfcnton Its de-
pledge you that these three tunnels practical and
feasible thnt there is sufficient tonnage now without
sufficient to take care of the tunnel bonds We are
vnced n thorough investigation that the state
only lend credit for this tunnel construc'
tlon, that It will not add dollar of the
taxpayers of the State of Colorado.
Citizens of the East Slope West Slope will pro-
opportunity children tomorrow just
section provided opportunity for you yesterday. We
Joined hands with you in providing funds and soldiers
when common government In peril. We want
be Joined closer economically and commercially
now. We of the Northwest do want to be for all
time little line sent down from the Union
Pacific Wyoming They of the Southwest do not want
limited all time little spur line running
New Mexico We glad to secure any of these
hut yyanf imar to he to
Industrial and commercial centers of state on
ket for fruit for cattle sheep hogs and
the products of mine well field. We want also
the home and factory builder of the East Slope to be
able to tap coal Mines to reach our forests. We
build the school fund in the interest of the pub
lie schools We want to develop water and
erty values that we may do much more in sustaining
the state institutions Of the East Slope and In
maintaining the expense of our state government Wa
want Colorado to become greater manufacturing well
greater agricultural and mining state We want you
Join with in tho biggest constructive measure thai
before the State of Colorado We resdent1
and citizens of the West Slope whose prosperity and
depends securing adequate transportation
outlet, ask to disregard the shrewd and deceptive
ads the powerful appeal to prejudice md sectional hate
of Tom Devine and his multlbillonaire New York
ters and for the Tri-Tunne Amendment, Amend
ment No 5.