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19 <br /> 1 done. So it was all news to us. It was just dropped like a <br />• 2 bucket of water on your neck. <br /> 3 They're saying we were quarrying rock and <br /> 4 we don't have a permit. S4e have been quarrying rocks for <br /> 5 years and years; ? believe, since we starter. the business <br /> 6 there in '39, which was when we inherited the property from <br /> 7 our mother and dad. <br /> g We have been operating, oh, whenever we could <br /> 9 sell rock. There was some mention that cae operated every da;~. <br /> 10 Sometimes we never operated for years on end. If you can't <br /> 11 sell it; you don't dig it. You just caait until you have <br /> 12 somebody who wants some. That's how come the quarries are <br /> 13 there. <br /> <br /> 14 Some of the holes--well, I know ;when I was a <br /> 15 small boy, I would go up with my dad, up there, and he'd <br /> 16 show the quarries. <br /> 17 He'd say, "Well, this is~where so and so worked <br /> 1$ and this is where so and so worked." <br /> 19 The rock was all bare and open. <br /> 20 I can remember when I was going to high school <br /> 21 I went up there, went up with the truck, and we hauled some <br /> 22 rock down. <br /> 23 The quarries were left open. They--nobody <br /> 24 ever filled a quarry up. A quarry isn't filled up because <br />• i <br /> 25 you open <br />t up to see what you got. You leave it there until <br /> E1LEE.~' C.aHPFATl.R R ASSN CL.17CS, lYC <br /> Crni/ird Sbnn hand Rrpnru•n <br /> 1509 Chrr.n dlr RnaJ <br /> Li nlnnn. Colorado ,59 i:! <br /> <br />