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rift: ~ - z~s•o~ To: Mr. Steve Shuey Division of Minerals and Geology 101 S. 3`d Street, Room 301 Grand Junction, CO 81501 From: Paul Peter Urone~~' Patricia Urone 5872 Riddio Street Citrus Heights, CA 95610 (916) 967-1096 RECEIVECD JAN 172006 January 9, 2006 :.. ~d 1~ _ JAN 1 0 2006' Dieisioo of Minerals end Geology 4#aae~d ~ ~~'~ Subject: Objection to the Benson Brothers Canyon D4rsst¢vn of & 4wf~ ,~~ Red Shale Quarry in Coalby My wife and I own property the property at 20966 Snowdrift Road in Coalby Canyon, adjacent to the proposed Benson Brothers red shale quarry. We purchased our property in June, 2004, with the intent to rent its cabin and stables, to raise alfalfa and hay, and, most importantly, as a future building site for us and our family. The property is slightly over 47 acres and includes bluffs on the north boundary adjacent to the proposed quany. Our property is also adjacent to those of Janet Croissant and Lany Chick who are among the many property owners who have objections to the proposed quarry. At present we have tenants in the cabin and employ a rancher living in Austin who is irrigating, seeding, fertilizing and cultivating the ground for alfalfa and hay production. He is also grazing cattle to help stimulate the feed crops. He has also helped us to make improvements to the road and the outbuildings on the ProPertY• Benson Brothers purchased the proposed quarry site after we purchased our property. If the quarry is approved it will have both immediate negative impacts and present long-term hazards that are totally unacceptable. Not only do the potential dust, noise, and water-table effects negatively impact living conditions and crop production, the sandstone bluffs will likely be unstabilized, presenting threat to life and limb, not to mention the esthetic beauty of the area. While my wife and I now reside in California, we are native Coloradoans raised and educated in Colorado, we have family and other property in Colorado, we pay taxes in Colorado and we hope to reside on this property and pass it on to our children. We have not only purchased this property, we have made improvements and will continue to do so if it is not ruined by the proposed quarry. We would never have purchased the land had we known that Benson Brothers would try to quarry the adjacent property.