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III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ~~~~~~~~ ~Im~ <br />RUG 1 ~ 1989 <br />Deer Editor and/ or General Public MINED LAND <br />FEALAMAYION DIVISION <br />First of all I would like to point out that this letter is to <br />be recognized solels sa an instrument to be used under articals <br />#1 and #14 of the Amendent to '£Ffe' Fed'erel`~cons~'ition which are <br />Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of the Press for the dissement- <br />-ion to the general public for awareness to a grave problem in <br />our fair and colorful community of Trinidad, Colorado. <br />This letter ie to be used only to bring public awareness to <br />our nearby neighbors such as Raton, Starkville, Cokedale, <br />Aguilar, Ludlow, Hoehne, Walsenburg, and many other hiator- <br />-ical towns with points of interest to the tourists,, residents <br />of these communities, and previous residents of these communit- <br />ies. We the public are faced with a future open pit strip <br />miner who is about to destroy the ancient coal mining °Ghost <br />Town's of Engleville, Colorado located approximately about 2~ <br />miles South East of Trinidad, Colorado, which in turn will <br />mutilate and def ace our beloved landmark that represents the <br />City of Trinidad, and the Oounty of Las Animas, Colorado, <br />Incidentally Las Animas County covers L},798 square miles, and <br />it is nearly four times the size of the entire State of Rhode <br />Island which covers only 1,214 square miles, <br />According to Mr. Michael Ossola who is the Director of the <br />Planning and Land Ilse Office for Las Animas County said quote: <br />"This miner has his application going through the Department <br />of Land and Reclamation (~trip'Mining Division)." <br />"His application will probably be approved approximately some- <br />time in this month of August or.~eptmember;~ <br />