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many gervsrations of ours to come in the future. I beleive it <br />is our turn to preserve our forefathers accomplishments and <br />tkirough these monuments such as Fishers Peak end 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 smell upheaval. <br />of volcanic lava which left a small extinct volcano protruding <br />from the earth called the "Huerfanito", or "Little Orphan:' <br />Early one morning just as this construction company was <br />getting ready to resume crushing this smell volcanic pimple <br />on the prairie, a small band of people from our neighboring <br />town of Walsenburg which is about 34 miles from Trinidad con-~ <br />-fronted the construction owner. The small bend of people <br />told him that the small peak was not to be destroyed, and <br />when he asked "Why notY", the small group of people exclaimed <br />"That volcano reoresents Huerfano County.' Not too long <br />after that it was dxclaimed a national monument and was <br />saved, Fishers Peak to the best 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 displayed on all of the <br />Huerfano County trucks and Huerfano County equiptment, just <br />as Fishers Peak is displayed on our City's vehicals, City's <br />equiptment, Las Animal's vehicals, and all of Las Animal's <br />heavy equiptment. Whv can't our historical sites be reRister- <br />~d end protected too, just es the Huerfano Peak we37 <br />Not only will the public lose a very important historical <br />site of Engleville Colorado which is nestled in the very <br />