The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-08-24
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
By C. T. RAWALT /,

NOW when the coal barons boosting coal to $3.50
at the mine is good time to contemplate what might
have been done year ago if suggestion for
municipality operated coal mine had been taken seriously
The government then and STILL offers perpetual lease
coal land free of charge to all municipalities that will
take leases The only restriction is that coal must be
sold That would about $500 at the mine.
That is investment could afford to make as the
saving in of would easily easily offset interest
charges and other We voted matter of s4o1
900 in bonds this spring to augment the light and water
plant when did it that is not necessary,
but desirable 1t is infinitely desirable to
perpetual coal supply at reasonable prices and
should think that the most mossbacked citizen would
take interest in avang ourselves of the privileges
rendered by the Government How about it? Are three
coal mines and equal number of dealers capa
BILE of you for another ten twenty years
READERS will recall that at the beginning Of the
strike four-usher Hoover the beginning
the war; band stand about stopping the price
advances He speedily decided that $3.50 ton at the
mine enough that being about so0 than before
the strike commenced Now when the strike is about set
tied, he does of the thing and decides
that $3.50 the mine is about right Here in Gunnison
within good rife range it is $3.50 per ton at the mine
Every time that colossal crook Hoover his hands
matter of price fixing it is boosted high he thinks
people will stand big business papers aud the
scoundre for his wonderful abty-at making stealing
easy-we presume.
OUR readers who read other papers have read much
of the abandonment of trains in the desert by their
This past week President Harding has repeated in
his message Congress this useless and mendacous lie
Every train socalled, abandoned, left at ter
minal in good shape The town afforded plenty of food
and water; inconvenience except the stop
stoned yet perjured newspapers the President,
peats the infamous falsehood Oh, of Colorado
not the connection between this administration
and the that prey? Can you comprehend that
all the stang and talk is rotten camouage to deceive
you? And the administration through its high executive
reepats the prepared and stereoyped lie that railroad
me in
WE wonder if C. F. Hoeckel of Denver, is coming to
Mesa county this fall to campaign for the reelection of
the officials who have given his firm thousands and thou
sands of dollars worth of business that could have easily
been handled here home? There promises to be
interesting revelations along this line in the dis
tant future-Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
Should it turn out have long suspected, that
county officials take down nice commission that
business, would understand the We imagine
the Hoecke representative will stop off in this county
and take quantity of work which, being possible
execution in the junk shop that has the open
the county officials, necessarily away, punish
ment to the only modern shop in the county, and which
CAN do the work. Grand Junction Offices either of
which do ALL the work and there is for
even partisanshp to send it away.