The Ordway new era., 1920-10-29
Western Slope Citizens Appeal
to Colorado for Fair Play

When Tom Devine the Pueblo attorney for the C F.
4 L. strenuously opposed the endorsement of the Tr
before the Republican State Platform
Committee he did represent the Interests OF Puebio
or Colorado. those of the C. f. l. alone but he
represented chiefly the special interests OF his slonare
Tom Devlne inspired the ad against the tunnels
every newspaper Of Colorado he must have known that
ultimately to come from New York CITY ahd from
this same United Railroad Trust.
Why does the United Railroad Trust oppose the Tr
Tunnel Amendment? The answer is simple The Rail-
road Trust trnnsconnentn line trnv"rsing
Colorado; they cornered they to keep us
cornered. They TO build Salt Lake onan kans's
City an o'er middle and far eastern ana western cities
and their states because they have their transcontnenta
lines already established there and hecnuSe these ceners
being from the point of production of the
materials al tonnage must be hauled there nnh back
Trust destroy Colorado It's cities
md communities because these communities are c"se
the point of production and therefore do not permit the
twoy cross country Tonnage graft The Rnlr"id trust
opposing Tri-Tunnel Amendment because " knows
through this construction and the unlimited
Colorado manufactures will increase hundred fold;
the product will he finished at the point OF pr9dnc-
fon and I,nirond will he forever denied the
two1ny freight toll. They know that through independ-
railroad competition freight rates for
n reduced one-third and that they viii
be able to rob MS longer.
The undersigned citizens and residents of the West
err slope wnnt people of Colorado to know that the
widely published expensive ad of the United Itirond
Trust Is deceptive and deliberately false in the following
pnrJculars:
Mr. Devine and his bllnonnre masters deliberately
sought misead the people of Colorado by representing
building Moffnt Tunnel alone, when they knew
that bill itself provided that the three tunnels must
funds had to he npportonsd to accord
ing to the estimated cost of each that there can he no
transfer of funds from tunnel fund to another
until the particular tunnel has been completed that
Southwestern Colorado each has repre-
senation the Railroad Commission, and TINT no one
he built unless all three tunnels are 'uit
Tom Devine md his millionaire New York masters
sought mslead the people by representing that there
enough tonnage In Middlewestern md In South
western Colorado TO enable sufficient charge against
tla flrnuh TN n
principal and interest the tunnel bonds when
they know that today there is tremendous and heavily
congested tonnage, both in Mddlewestern and South
Colorado and that the saving to the railroads
of the tunnels will easily provide snkin;
sufficiently large to take care of all interests ana
principal charge They located in their nd the portals
southwestern tunnel many miles from the Denver
East and West portals Cumbres Pass Tunnel, as
fixed by the Denver & Rio Grande engineers ana .'ie
ailroad Commission surveyors are each wlthh e one
mile distant from the roadbed of the Rio Grnnde "
road now located.
The undersigned citizens and residents OF the West
Slope want Mr Tom Devine and his hliionnre New New
York masters To the enormy of the injury they
in blocking this constructive The larger por
ton worka'e coal of the Western Slope belongs
well the manufacturing towns of the East
Slope of Colorado in special need Of the biinmnons
The royalty the School Fund from stimulated develop
nm to many millions We beg Mr. Devine to inform his
multibllonaire New York mnsters that In their tign
against they are exerlng the,
colossal financial might and narrow the oppor
lunities Of Coorndo's school children
The undersigned citizens and residents of the Wes
SIope want Tom Devne and his multi-billionnire Ne"
York nnsters to nearly all of the Twenty-Five
billion feet standing timber In Colorado Is upon ht
West Slope In fighting This constructive mems
e lessening the opportunity OF the East Slope
citizen 10 build and his home
The undersigned citizens and residents of the Wes
Slope want Tom Devine and his multl-bllionare New
York masters that when they block the buiidnt
of these they also prevent people from d
welcoming the lands West Slope prevent the buu
Ing reservoirs that they are making possible TOT m m
neonle of California n prior and vested rgh
in the waters of The Colorado River which run OF
from the Colorado shed and that as a result o
This policy they prevent for NIL times an irrigation
of large portion Western Slope and force muci
of that vast fertile empire remain perpetual non
rrlpnted non productive desert We want them to know
lnt when they block the development OF the West Sop
they will concentrate for all time the main burden
maintaining the State Government upon the East Sop
taxpayer.
Tie undersigned citizens and residents or the Yves
slope want Tom Devine and his multi-blionare New
of Pueblo In n unenvnble light. For the merchant
rs of Pueblo their trade years. and while they hav
,een required during this time lift produc
fe1 and mine many hundred feet in the air and lowe
again the jobbers Pueblo have never attempted Z
ne TO their relief yet when measure is offered
,i,t n;omses Afiddiewestern Colorado another bron
I.,y, road reduction of 1900 feet OF lift, promise
Ss,fhvesern Colorado n broad gauge rond reduction
the NORTHWESTERN TUNNEL AssociATlo