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T <br />i III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />~\y ~'`: <br />~~~y~ HENLEY'S KEY SERVICE <br />117 EAST BOULDER STREET COLORADO SPRINGS, =OLORADO <br />January 12, 1978 <br />Colorado Mine Land Reclamation Board <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Gentlemen: <br />I keep seeing in letters and hearing on the radio very passionate <br />pleas for closing the surface mining by Castle Concrete Company <br />on the front range. <br />In checking I find that many of those people are riding on <br />fortunes derived from mineral exploitation and might even be <br />motivated by the fact that the limestone quarry isn't theirs. <br />As you know, it is a very good source of limestone, about the <br />only source of such a type of building material in our area and <br />a great many of the homes built in recent years have benefited. <br />The material is there. I think it should be used. The alleged <br />scar on the mountain is not unsightly but rather a beauty mark <br />and point of reference to those viewing the front range. <br />If that is closed down, then in all justice, such things as the <br />Rampart Range Road, Corley Highway, the Broadmoor Ski Area, tie <br />Cog Railway and the highway up Ute Pass should be closed because <br />they too have disturbed the natural vegetation, <br />However, rather than close any of these, Let us use them to t1Te <br />utmost and when we are through, clean up the mess - if any, <br />Since <br />Homer D. Henley <br />cc: Gazette Telegraph <br /> <br />HDH/mis <br />