The Holly chieftain., February 12, 1909, Image 7

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(???) OF GREAT
(???) LINE DITCH
p) é FHE OLDEST AND LARG
NALS IN COLORADO
{ ; ANGES HANDS,
AS DUG BY PLATTE LAND
_ PANY, KNOWN AS THE
GLISH COMPANY.
Expectations of years for
j#ive cultivation of arid land
nver and in the immediate
the city which led to the
¥ pn of the High Line ditch,
N Ptically realized yesterday
i‘ fRepuuiican of Sunday morn
f e sale of that camal by the
pd Company to the Antero &
7 ; Reservoir Company. Since
\ ¥ etion twenty-five years ago,
f had not been supplied with
g ) water to meet the demands
ners of land along its course.
@result of yesterday's transac
}i | reservoirs of the purchasing
) will supply all the long
el water to the farmers in its
annals of Denver the ditch has
k historic because of the hopes
finany men held for the benefit
i :‘ bring to the city, for the im-
Y of the task at the early date
BERE Decinning in the completion of its
) «,;_, miles’ length, and for the
MRraversies which have since arisen
STain: it.
Rt the supplying of the ditch with
Ser will meet the wants of many
(M Been well illustrated in recent
o f: by the agitation, which farm
{@iwast and south of Denver have
(MW concerning their lack of ade
/e irrigation facilities. And with
B RkwWo large reservoirs of the pur
»f Jers as a source of canal will eas
e ':v',r'- the necessary water for the
{{ B¥ation of 50,000 acres of land. All
i i M8is property is but a few miles
] jithe city and is owned in both
(S and small tracts. Receiving the
ibenefits of the ditch, the farmers
] mindoubtedly be enabled to raise
i jod crops of their kind as are pro
g } in the state. In other words the
8 diate territory about Denver will
LS9 probability be transformed into
{ fmd r z h an agriculture region as that
T 3’3-" nding Greeley and other north
,f‘ wm fColorado towns at present, a verit
. &AW earden spot.
. &\ @esident H. G. Clark of the Antero
5 .’ fost Park Reservoir Company, esti
igEsgkes that within three years pota-
S8MNe and beets will be grown under
§ ditch as profitably as under any
t SlfEhes in northern Colorado.
A "'}::'1 last May the Antero & Lost
‘S Mrk Reservoir Company has been con
‘Etsucting the Antero reservoir in South
SPATk. Work on the dam of this reser-
MR has been temporarily delayed be
Buse of the cold weather, but will be
SN umed as soon as possible in order
@t the entire labor may be finished
998 the first of June. During the com
(“gle scason alone the company will be
i Ple, it is said, to store in this reser
“:B8ir over 1,000,000,000 cubic feet of
i ter. At extreme high water line the
% @Bpacity will be about $80,000 acre
S Gt
4 The company also owns the Lost
. J®ark site on Goose creek, a tributary
.2t the South Platte, and it is their in
-j, ntion to begin the construction of the
-‘?Jr‘,- of this natural reservoir during
. the coming season after the Lake An
8 tero reservoir has been completed. The
% 1ost Park reservoir has a capacity of
' between 25,000 and 50,000 acre feet
A;f.'. nd requires only the building of a
B ‘ischnrge gate to its natural outlet
i tunnel.
3 The transaction yesterday was com
! pleted by S. J. Gilmore for the Platte
lL.and Company and the officers of the
(@sqr\"olr company who were author
zed by the directors to make the pur
chase. The officials of the Antero &
Lost Park Reservoir Company follow:
H. G. Clark, president; D. C. Wyatt,
vice president; Willlam Mayher, vice
president; P. W. Allen, treasurer; Ar
thur D, Wall secretary, and George A.
Starbird, engineer. Others who are
connected with the company as mem
bers of the board of directors or in
other capacXdies are: E. J. Reithman,
J. C. Mosher of Greeley, C. F. Tew and
S. J. Peary. Those who form the com
pany are all Colorado people, live prin
cipally in Denver and Greeley and have
been interested widely in other sim
'H:lr projects. P. W_ Allen, the treas
urer, is treasurer of Weld county.
The late Abner B. McKinley, up to
the time of his death, was working to
ybring about the purchase of the Antero
& Lost Park reservoir sites by the
"High Line Company, but the reverse
has now taken place
COLORADO ITEMS
e——————————————————————— |
A company is being organized to |
drill for oil at Fort Morgan, where oil |
rock is in evidence. 3
Dr. John Davis Hartley of Sacra
mento, California, will establish a col
ony of Dunkards in the Greeley dis
trict, |
Dr. George H. Stover has been
chosen dean of the faculty of the Med- |
ical college of the University of Dvn-!
ver, 1
Herman Lueders of Manitou, former i
secretary of the State Board of Capitol
Commissioners, died at Pueblo on the l
Tth inst. ]
Snowslides interrupted telephone |
communication between Durango and I
Telluride from January 22d to Febru- |
ary 4th. !
Mrs. Russell Sage of New York has |
given $2,500 toward a building fund for
the Young Women’s Christian Associa- I
tion of Colorado Springs. |
The Boulder oil field is still attract- !
ing a great deal of attention and ar- |
rangements are being made to drill a ‘
large number of new wells. !
A special short course of ten weeks |
for forest rangers has been started by
the Colorado College school of forestry
at Colorado Springs under W. J. Mor- |
rill, deputy forest supervisor of the ‘
Pike's Peak forest reserve. l
The committee of 18 which is push
ing the charter form of g(»vornmem{
for Pueblo has decided to withdraw its
application to the city council for uf
special election, and will probably re
quest that the matter come up at the
regular spring election.
The State Commercial Association
has taken up the burden of procuring
suitable exhibits from Colorado for the
third Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Con
gress at Cheyenne February 23rd, 24th
and 25th. The various commercial or
ganizations of the state are urged to |
take part in the work. i
More than 1,200 men are now em-l
ployed by the Eastern Colorado Power
Company on the great power project i
on Middle Boulder creek. Most of the
force is used on the trenches for the
gravity pipe line, which is twelve
miles long, extending from Nederland
reservoir to the Kosler forebay.
It is generally conceded that the
John D. Rockefeller interests control
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company and
there is rumor of a coming reorganiza
tion. It is said to be part of the plan
to double the capacity of the Pueblo,
plant so as to supply the entire west
ern territory and the Oriental export
trade.
The previous record of 360 feet in 31
days in the driving of the double track
tunnel in Pike's Peak granite in the
Cripple Creek district was eclipsed in
January by Superintendent James A.
Mcllwee and his picked force of ma
chine men and miners at the portal
heading of the Roosevelt deep drainage
tunnel and the new mark stands at 435
feet.
The American Machine & Manufac
turing Company has been organized at
Boulder, the incorporators being J. H.
Wallace, W. E. Whitacre and R.
Lindemann. It will build the Linace
motor car, and in addition will do a
general machine and repair business.
The company is capitalized at SIOO,OOO
and will at once commence the erection
of a brick and steel building.
Twenty-one members of the Denver
University football team were enter
tained on the night of the 4th inst. at
a banquet at the residence of W. C.
Johnston in Colorado Springs. The
young men were accompanied each by
a lady friend and the party traveled
in a special ear. Mr. Johnston, who
formerly lived near the University in
Denver, is a football enthusiast.
The Greeley canning factory wants
1,500 acres of peas for the coming sea
son and one-half as many acres of cab
bage and tomatoes. The needed acre
age is being rapidly pledged by farm
ers and the early crop of peas will be
planted from the middle of March to
the first of April. Many acres of to
matoes have been pledged in the vi
cinity of Platteville and Fort Lupton
and the cabbage acreage will be eas
ily secured.
* The Greeley sugar factory, the Model
mills and the Greeley starch factory
have presented the Greeley Commenr
cial club with an exhibit of their pro- |
ducts showing the processes through
which the raw materials pass to the
finished products. The sugar beets
show eighteen processes before it be
comes sugar, the potatoes eight pro- |
cesses in the making of starch and|
wheat requires twenty-three stages be- :
fore being made into flour, ‘
A national park for Pueblo and |
Custer counties in the Greenhorn|
mountain range is projected by resi-| -
dents of both counties, who will ask | |
Congress for an appropriation to main- I :
tain it. The location is thirty-five | ;
miles southwest of Pueblo on the|
county line., Those who are back of | -
the scheme wish to have Congress set | 1
aside the park twelve by fifteen miles, |
The country has some of the most |
beautiful mountain scenery in the state,
WARNING NOTE
TO CALIFORNIA
PRESIDENT SAYS MISGUIDED AC
TION AGAINST JAPAN EN
DANGERS PEACE.
AGITATION PERILOUS
.
| s
; ADMINISTRATION POLICY WILL
ACHIEVE OBJECT WITH MINI
| MUM OF FRICTION.
1
|
~ Washington. — President Roos velt
| in a long telegram to Speaker P. A.
|Slamon of the California Ass Ibly,
| sets forth the government's view of
| the anti-Japanese school agitation now
| before that body.
l The telegram to Speaker Stanton
- was sent only after a conference with
Senator Flint and Representative
| Kahn of California and F. K. Lane of
1 the Interstate Commerce Commission.
} It says:
“I trust there will be no misunder
l standing of the federal government's
attitude. We are zealously endeavor
* ing to guard the interest of California
| and of the entire West, in accordance
| with the desires of our western people.
“By friendly agreement with Japan
we are now carrying out a policy
which, while meeting the interests and
desires of the Pacific slope, is yct
comparable not merely with mutual
| self respect, but with mutual esteemn
’ and admiration between the Americans
and Japanese.
! “The Japanese government is loyally
| and in good faith doing its part to car
l ry out this policy, precisely as the
American government is doing. The
policy aims at mutuality of obligation
! and ‘behavior.
‘ln accordance with it, the purpose
is that the Japanese shall come here
exactly as Americans go to Japan,
which is in effect that travelers, stu
dents, persons engaged in interna
tional business, men who sojourn for
pleasure or study, and the like, shall
have the freest access from one coun
try to the other and shall be sure of
the best treatment, but that there shall
be no settlement in mass by the people
of either country in the other.
“During the last six months, under
this policy, more Japanese have left
the country than have ¢ome in, and
the total number in the United States
has diminished by over 2,000. These
figures are absolutely accurate and
need not be impeached.
“In other words, if the present policy
is consistently followed and works as
well in the future as it {8 now work
ing, all difficulties and causes of fric
tion will ‘disappear, while at the same
time each nation will retain its self re
spect and the good will of the other.
“But such a bill as this school bill
accomplishes literally nothing what
ever in the line of the object aimed at
and gives just and grave cause for ir
ritation; while in addition the United
States government would be obliged
immediately to take action in the fed
eral courts to test such legislation, as
we hold it to be clearly a violation of
the treaty.
“Of this point I refer you to the num
erous decisions of the United States
Supreme Court in regard to state laws
which violate treaty ‘obligations in the
United States.
“The legislation would accomplish
nothing beneficial and would certainly
cause some mischief and might cause
very grave mischief. In short, the pol
icy of the administration is to combine
the maximum of efficiency in achiev
ing the real object which the people of
the Pacific slope have at heart, with
the minimum of friction and trouble,
while the misguided man who advo
cates such action as this against
which I protest are following a
policy which combines the very min
imum of efficiency with the maximum
of insult and which, while totally fail
ing to achieve any real result for good,
vet might accomplish an infinity of
harm.
“I am sure that the sound judgment
of the people of California, will support
you, Mr, Speaker, in your efforts. lLet
me repeat that at present we are actu
ally doing the very thing which the
| people of California wish to be done,
and to upset the arrangement under
which this is being done can do no
good and may do harm.
“If the next year or two the figures
of immigration prove that the arrange
ment which has worked so successfully
during the last six months is no longer
working successfully, then there would
be ground for grievance, and for the re
versal by the national government of
its present policy. But at present the
policy is working well and until it
works badly it would be a grave mis
fortune to change {t, and when
changed it can only be changed ef
fectively by the national government.
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.”
ON COUNTRY LIFE
SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM WHITE
HOUSE TO CONGRESS.
President Suggests Social and Busi
ness Improvements for the Bene
fits of the Dweller in Agri
cultural Communities.
Washington.-——Accompanying the re
port of the country life commission
| the president sent a special message
| to congress, substantially as follows:
To the Senate and House of Represent
atives: I transmit herewith the report
of the commission on country life. At
the outset 1 desire to point out that not
a dollar of the public money has been
paid to any commissioner for his work
on the commission.
The report shows the general condition
of farming life in the open country, and
points out its larger problems; it indi
cates ways in which the government, na
tional and state, may show the people
how to solve some of these problems; and
it suggests a continuance of the work
which the commission began.
Those engaged in all other industrial
and commercial callings have found it
necessary, under modern economic con
ditions, to organize themselves for mu
tual advantage and for the protection of
their own particular interests in rela
tion to other interests,
Now, whatever the state may do to
ward improving the practice of agri
culture, it is not within the sphere of
any government to reorganize the farm
ers’ business or reconstruct the social
life of farming communities. It is, how
ever, quite within its power to use its
influence and the machinery of publicity
which it can control for calling public at
tention to the needs of the facts. For ex
ample, it is the obvious duty of the govy
| ernment to call the attention of farmers
to the growing monopolization of water
power. The farmers, above all, should
have that power, on reasonable terms, for
cheap transportation, for lighting their
homes, and for innumerable uses in the
daily tasks of the farm. |
Necessity for Co-Operation.
The co-operative plan 1s the best plan
~, of organization wherever men have the
| right spirit to carry it out. Under this
| plan any business undertaking is man
aged by a committee; every man has
-l one vote, and only one vote: and every
one gets profits according to what he
| sells or buys or supplies. It develops in
| dividual responsibility and has a moral
| as well as a financial value over any
other plan.
‘ I desire 0)!3‘ to take counsel with the
farmers as féllow-citizens. It is not the
» | problem of the farmers alone that I am
. | discussing with them, but a problem
which affects every city as well as every
| farm in the country.
- From all that. has been done and
| learned three great general and immedi
. | ate needs of country life stand out:
First, effective co-operation among
| | farmers, to put them on a level with the
. | organized Interests with which they do
, | business,
: Second, a new kind of schools in the
| country, which shall teach the children
, | a8 much outdoors as indoors and per
haps more, so that they will prepare for
country life, and not as at present, main- |
" |ly for life in town.
; Third, better means of communication,
] including good roads and a parcels post,
which the country people are everywhere,
| and rightly, unanimous in demanding.
) To these may well be added better san
| ftation: for easily preventable diseases
hold several million country people in the
slavery of continuous ill health. ’
: To Develop Country Community. |
} To improve our system of agriculture
. | seems to me the most urgent of the tasks
_ | which lie before us. But it cannot, in
my judgment, be effected by measures
> | which touch only the material and tech
. | nical side of the subject; the whole busi
ness and life of the farmer must also
be taken into account. Such considera-
I tions led me to appoint the commission
- fon counfry life. Our object should be
-| to help develop in the country commu
nity the great ideals of the community
" | life as well as of personal character. One
|| of the most tmportant adjuncts to this
| | end must be the country church, and I
| invite your attention to what the com
mission says of the country church and
| of the need of an extension of such work
'| as that of the Young Men's Christian as
sociation in country communities. lLet
me lay special emphasis upon what the
" | commission says at the very end of its
| report on personal ideas and local leader
, | ship. Everything resolves f{tself in the
, | end into the question of personality.
" | Neither society nor government can do
much for country life unless there is vol
| untary response in the personal ideals
.| of the men and women who live in the
country. In the development of charac
' | ter, the home should be more important
- | than the school, or than society at large.
, | When once the basic material needs have
been met, high ideals may be quite in
; dependent of income: but they cannot be
. | realized without sufficient income to pro
| vide adequate foundation; and where the
community at large s not financially
" | prosperous it is impossible to develop a
| high average personal and community
ideal. In short, the fundamental facts
of human nature apply to men and wom
| en who live in the country just as they
| apply to men and women who live in the
towns. Given a sufficlent foundation of
| material well being, the inflience of the
farmers’ wives on their children be
| comes the factor of first importance in
determining the attitude of the next gen
eration toward farm life. The farmer
should realize that the person who most
needs consideration on the farm is his
| wife. 1 do not in the least mean that she
should purchase ease at the expense of
duty. Neither man nor woman is really
happy or really useful save on condition
of doing his or her duty. If the wom
an shirks her duty as housewife, as
home keeper, as the mother whose prime
function is to bear and rear a sufficient
number of healthy children, then she is
not entitled to our regard. But if she
does her duty she is more entitied to our
regard even than the man who does
his duty; and the man should show spe
cial consideration for her needs,
Welfare of Nation at Stake.
I warn my countrymen that the great
recent progress made in city life is not
& full measure of our civilization; for our
civilization rests on the wholesomeness,
the attractiveness, and the completeness,
a8 well as the prosperity, of life in the
country. The men and women on the
farms stand for what is fundamentally
best and most needed in our American
fe.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.,
The Whuite House, February §, 190,
NEEDS OF FARMER
SHOWN BY COUNTRY LIFE COM
MISSION REPORT.
Obstacles to Be Overcome Ars Point
ed Out, Together with Sugges
tions for Guidancz of the Na
tional Government.
Washington.—Repcrt of ihe commis
sion on country life, of especial inter
est to the farmers, was read in both
houses of congress. A summary fol
lows:
To the President: The commission
on country life herewith presents ils
report. The commission finds that
agriculture in the United States, takern
together, is prosperous commercially,
when measured by the conditions that
have obtained in previous years, al
though there are some regions in
which this is only partially true. The
country people are producing vast
quantities of supplies for food, shelter,
clothing, and for use in the arts. The
country homes are improving in com
fort, attractiveness and healthfulness
Not only in the material wealth that
they produce, but in the supply of in
dependent and strong citizenship, the ag
ricultural people constitute the very
foundation of our national efficiency.
As agriculture is the immediate basis
of country life, so it follows that the
rgeneral affairs of the open country
speaking broadly, are in a condition
of improvement,
Most Prominent Deficiencies.
Yet it is true, notwithstanding all
this progress as measured by his
torical standards, that agriculture is
not commercially as profitable as it is
entitled to be for the labor and encrgy
that the farmer expends and the risks
that he assumes, and that the sociat
conditions in the open country are far
short of their possibilities,
The reasons for the lack of a highly
organized rural soclety are very mpiany,
as the full report explains, The lead
ing specific canses are:
Lack of good training for country
life in the schools;
Lack of good highway facilities:
The widespread continuing deple
tion of soils, with the injurious effect
on rural life;
A general need of new and active
leadership.
Other causes contributing to the
general result are: Lack of any ade
quate system of agricultural eredit,
whereby the farmer may readily se
cure loans on fair terms; the short
age of labor, a condition that is often
complicated by intemperance among
workmen; lack of institutions and in
centives that tie the laboring man to
the soil; the burdens and the narrow
life of farm women; lack of adequate
supervision of public health.
Nature of the Remedies.
Congress can remove some of the
handicaps of the farmer, and it care
also set gome Kinds of work in motion
such as:
The encouragement of a system of
thorough-going surveys of all agricul
tural regions in order to take stocl
and to develop a scientifically and:
economically sound country life;
The establishing of a nationalized
system of extension work in raral
communities through all the land
grant colleges with the people at theiy
homes and on their farms;
A thorough-going investigation by
experts of the middleman system of
handling farm products, coupled with
a general inquiry into the farmers
disadvantages in respect to taxatiorn.
transportation rates, co-operation or
ganizations and credit, and the gen
eral business system:
An inquiry into the control and use
of the streams of the United States
with the object of protecting the peo
ple in their ownership and of saving
to agricultural uses such benefits as
should be reserved for these purposes:
The establishing of a system of
parcels post and postal savings
banks;
Anad providing some means or
agency for the guidance of public
opinion toward Nhe development of i
real rural society that shall rest di
rectly on the land.
Other remedies recommended fox
consideration by congress are:
The enlargement of the United
States bureau of education, to enabl
it to stimulate and co-ordinate the ed
ucational work of the nation;
Careful attention to the farmers’
interests in legislation on the tariff
on regulation of railroads, control or
regulation of corporations and of spec
ulation, legislation in respect of riv
ers, forests, and the utilization ot
swamp lands:
Increasing the powers of the fed
eral government in respect to the
{upervision and control of the public
health;
Providing such regulations as ~ will
enable the states that do not permit
the sale of liquors to protect them
selves from trafic from adjoining.
states.,
In setting all these forces in motiorr.
the co-operation of the states will be
necessary; and in many cases definite
state laws may greatly aid the work
Remedies of a more general naturve
are: A broad campaign of publicity,
that must be undertaken until all the
people are informed on the whole sub-,
ject of rural life, and until there is an
awakened appreciation of the neces
sity of giving this phase of our pi
tional development as much attention®
as has been given to other phases or
interests; a quickened sense of re
sponsibility, in all the country people
to the community and the state in the
conserving of soil fertlity, and in the
necessity for diversifying farming in
order to conserve thix fertility and: to
develop a better rural soclety, an€s
also in the better safe-guarding of the
strength and happinesg of the facron
women; a more widespread conviction
of the necessity of organization, not omly
for economic but for social pur
poses, this organization to be mare or
less co-operative, so that all the peopls
may share equally in the benefits andg
Lhave voice in the essential affaire of
the community; a realization on th
part of the farmer that he has a dis
tinct natural responsibility toward the
laborer in providing him with good
living facilities, and in helping him ire
every way to be a man among men
and a realization on the part of ait
tue people of the obligation to protect
and develop the natural scenery and
attractiveness of the open country.