Show THE GOVERNOR ems of Colorado has called I a convention of delegates from the I States and Territories west of the Mississippi sissippi River to meet in Denver on he 28th instant for the purpose of interesting in-teresting the Great West in a deepwater deep-water port on the Texas coast which will give the commerce of this vast region re-gion an outlet to the markets of the world by a short direct and cheap route In the call it is asserted that the only difficulty at present is the fact that the seathe great economic pathway path-way of commerce that the We t wants to reach is so near yet deepdraught vessels cannot get close enough in shore to take away the products that the country wants to ship The object then of this interstate deep harbor convention is to interest and unite the people of the West in the effort to secure se-cure a deepwater port that shall admit our imports and take away our products pro-ducts at the lowest possible cost With a deep harbor on the Texas coast fully 30 per cent in freightage will be saved amounting to millions of dollars annually annu-ally on the products of the soil the output of mines and onr incoming merchandise The subject of storage reservoirs for reclaiming by irrigation millions of acres of public lands now valueless and other commercial topics will be presented for celiberation |