PERMFILE112732

• Permit No: M2001090
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 9/6/2002
• Doc Name: Lease Agreement
• From: Western Mobile Northern Inc.
• To: DMG
• Section_Exhibit Name: Permit
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

RECEIVED
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SAND AND GRAVEL MINING LEASE
This Lease, made and entered into as of this 11th day of March 2001, by
and between More Family Ranches, LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company with
its principal place of business in Steamboat Springs, Colorado 80477 in Routt
County, Colorado, (hereinafter referred collectively as Owner} and Western
Mobile Northern, Inc., a Delaware corporation and subsidiary of Lafarge
Corporation (hereinafter referred as Lessee).
WITNESSETH:

1. Lease of Property. Owner hereby leases to Lessee the Property described
in the attached Exhibit "A." The Property is a portion of lands owned by th'e
owners the "More Family Ranch," the balance of which is being retained by owner.
Lessee may occupy the Property for the purpose of sampling, drilling and testing
for, mining, quarrying, excavating, removing and selling Sand & Gravel from the
Property, and for crushing, screening, washing and other processing of Sand ~
Gravel excavated from the Property subject to the other terms of this Lease.
Lessee shall have the right to stockpile Sand 5 Gravel on the Property, and to
use the Property for processing plants, scale houses, sales offices, crushing,
screening, and washing plants, concrete plant, asphalt plant and storage of
related equipment, to the extent permitted by applicable government regulations,
during the term of the Lease. Lessee shall have the right to the extent
authorized by its governmental permits to import and store on the Property Sand
& Gravel, and similar materials for resale from the Property in conjunction with
similar operations concerning materials excavated from the Property.
Lessee's occupancy shall be exclusive except for those Owner's rights as
noted hereafter concerning residential and agricultural leases granted by Owner
(which leases shall in no event allow use of the property in a manner which
interferes in any manner with Lessee's operations hereunder), and Owner's right
to enter upon the Property, by employees or contractors, for inspection and
audit purposes and other purposes related to the enforcement of Owner's rights
under this Lease.
Nothing herein shall be construed to be a conveyance of water rights or
shares of companies providing water or other ownerships providing water which ih
any way may be construed to be appurtenant to the real property which is the
subject of this Lease. Owner's exclusive obligations with respect to water are
set forth in Paragraph 6 hereof.
1.1. Property Access. Access to the north, including County Road 20. and
20A as well as the right-of-way more particularly described in easement dated
August 18, 1998 and recorded August 27, 1978 in Book 799 at Page 1381, Reception
No. 497950, Office of the Routt County Clerk and Recorder will be limited to
emer$gney use only. All such heavy truck or equipment traffic shall be through
the ~izimary .access. to the west, which connects premises directly with U.S.
Highway 131. The connection with the said roadway shall be made in a suitably
safe manner so as to avoid conflict or hazards with such north access which is
the primary access to that portion of the More Family Ranch property now and in
the future.
2. Term. This Lease shall commence on the 11th day of March, 200E
Excavation of Sand & Gravel shall terminate on the date when all commercially
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