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many generations of ours to come in the future, I beleive it <br />is our turn to preserve our forefathers accomplishments end <br />through these monuments such es Fishers Peak and Engleville <br />Colorado, we can preserve our heritage too, <br />Way back in the late SU's or early 60's a local construction <br />company set up a gravel crusher to grind up a small upheaval. <br />of volcanic lava which left a small extinct volcano protruding <br />from the earth called the "Huerf anito", or "Little Orphen.° <br />Early one morning just as this construction company was <br />getting ready to resume crushing this small volcanic pimple <br />on the prairie, a small band of people from our neighboring <br />town of Walsenburg which is about 4q miles from Trinidad con-~ <br />-Sronted the constructlon owner. The small bend oi' people <br />told him that the small peak was not to be destroyed, and <br />when he asked "Why not9", the small group of people exclaimed <br />"That volcano rearesents Huerfano County," Not too long <br />after that it was dxclaired a national monument and was <br />saved. Fishers Peak to the beat of my knowlege still is not <br />a national monument, nor is Engleville Colorado a historical <br />site which I think that both sites deserve to be by now <br />because of their historical background in history books end <br />legend. Huerfano Peak is proudly dlsplayed on ell of the <br />Huerfano County trucks end Huerf ano County equiptment, just <br />as Fishers Peax is displayed on our City's vehicals, City's <br />equiptment, Las Animal's vehicals, and e11 of Las Animal's <br />heavy equiptment. Whv can't our historical sites be reRister- <br />~d end nrotested too, just es the Huerfano Peek_wa37 <br />Not only will the public lose a very important historical <br />site of Engleville Colorado which is nestled in the very <br />