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1 <br />.i <br />III IIIIIIIIIIIII III <br />sss <br />Mined Land Reclamation Division <br />1313 Sherman St. <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Gentlemen; <br />CJ <br />January 3, 1980 <br />I am in receipt of a letter (a copy of enclosed)'from <br />Suburban Reddi-Mix telling about a surface mining operation <br />for sand and gravel in our area. The letter states that <br />written objections should be sent to your office no later than <br />January 7, 1980. <br />The laugh of this letter is how they will complete this <br />job in the year 2002, (just around the corner), and it will <br />be put back into recreation and wildlife habitat. I wonder <br />how many of us will be around to see that this will be done <br />(due again to all the law changes to fit the big man with <br />money). Also, you seem to ok these projects (I have been <br />to these meetings before with my neighbors) whether we give <br />you our good opinion or not. We get the feeling that all this <br />is just a formality with you to sit and listen to us <br />and as of yet we have not won one case. <br />Now my real question behind this letter is, how much <br />longer is the small farmer or ground owner going to be push- <br />ed around? <br />I hope in the year 2002 that the people can eat the <br />recreation and the wildlife habitat. The laws that you <br />people make and yet cannot see are putting the farmer and <br />rancher out of business. In my short years on a small farm <br />your laws have done nothing for us and one does not have to <br />look far to see we are dying a slow death. Yes, the answers <br />are we cannot slow progress. I hope you all remember this as <br />food from farms and ranches get put in a tighter squeeze and <br />I'm sure the farmer and rancher will read, like everyone else, <br />that food prices are high due to the high cost from the farmer <br />and rancher. <br />I have one consolation as I do live close to one neigh- <br />bor, a Ms. Fergeson, who has quite a bit of land and was <br />offered a large sum of money for it. tln this land is hay <br />and cattle, a beautiful sight that is slowly leaving this <br />area, and in talking with her one evening she made a state- <br />ment that as long as she is around that the land will always <br />be used to grow hay and run cattle. <br />