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• 32 Ba•rer• lls Court III III III IIIIIII III <br />Colorado Borings, Co. <br />15 September 77 <br />~~~~~~~~ <br />CoioYado Mined Land Reclamation Board <br />723 Centennial Bldg, <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Co. <br />SEP 21 19i' <br />MINED L?.ND RECL'~NIATIQN <br />Colo. Dept. of Natural Resoercas <br />Dear Sir; <br />77-21/ <br />According to the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph today, 15 September, <br />the Castle Concrete Company has filed application for permits to continue <br />mining operations at Pikeview quarry and Queers Canyon quarry until 2032 <br />and 1983 or"at a much later date depending on commercial conditions." <br />Both of these operations have been in operation for a "Substantial <br />period of time" according to the legal notice and, of course, this is very <br />obvious to any resident of Colorado Springs, In fact, we all know queens <br />Canyon open pit mine as the scar on the mountain. And an incredible, <br />ugly rape of the beauty of Colorado Springs these mines are to all but <br />blind men! Does your office actually grant permission to Castle Concrete <br />to continue despoilation of our lovely City? And do the mining permits <br />applied for last into the indefinite future as stated in the applications? <br />It is perhaps easy for the citizens~of this city to ignore these tuo <br />long lived areas of destruction especially when only 20 or 30 truck loads <br />of our great mountain range is blasted away and hauled out for sale each <br />day, Certainly the rock being mined in full view of our City is available <br />in some unpopulated area such as along Gold Camp Road, Let Castle do <br />their mining elsewhere if the operation can be justified, <br />Please record my objection to the above mining operations in the <br />strongest possible terms! <br />YOUrs truly, ~ `' <br />;, <br />H. James Ver Steeg, M.D, ---- <br />~ J <br />