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Show f yMwpM'..i.iaiiwJj',pHuWf! mnnnnjiii, a im., "IM ill in M Dear Sam: In the Times-Independent, October 19, 1967, there is an article by the Park Service in regard to rescue of lost tourists. There is one portion of this I would like to straighten out for the general gen-eral public, since I am sure it is a situation not known by most people. Anderson Bottom was purchased by Karl Tan-gren' Tan-gren' along with equipment livestock and then several years f work, one of the things building a home and developing the sprang. He has invested approximately approxi-mately 20,000 in this property, and the food and blankets referred to belong be-long to Tangren. He found all dishes in the cabin had been used and set back. Most of the food had been used; as to what hadn't been used, the cupboard doors were left open and the remaining food supply was destroyer by mice and all other types of rodents and flies. ' When Tangren was living liv-ing at Anderson Bottom during the Friendship Cruise he. requested all cans and garbage buried. This last year the Park Service had them put the cans and other debris in sacks, and the sacks were stacked on the pier, but nothing had been done with them. Either these same lost people or someone some-one else had dumped all of the debris around over the area and spread the sacks in an old car that sits there. Now, I am quite sure the Park Service believes Anderson to be theirs,, because be-cause they have commandeered com-mandeered it and, apparently, appar-ently, believe that they own everything that Tangren Tan-gren possessed cooking utensils, dishes, bedding and the groceries. I am just pointing this out so Dear Sam: , Isn't there something you or someone can do to stop this so-called Chaining of thousands of acres of Utah land. It is ruining the land for wild "as well as tame animals. If you Want a sample drive out to La Sal Junction and between be-tween there and the small community called La Sal you will see what I mean. That was chained quite a few years ago and all that is growing is Russian Thistle. Another good place to go is turn to the left at the top of Blue Hill and drive up to the Micro-Wave station. It just made my stomach turn over and over to see all the distraction up there. The only wild life we saw was a few birds, and we have been up there twice. It is a beautiful view from up there. This chaining is a good-friend to erosion and1 that is a-bout a-bout all. And to think the Tax payer is having to foot the bill of thousands of dollars to have their land ruined. In winter we have seen the poor cattle eating dried thistles, and just about starving to death. If this happened in some- places a Humane Society would take the stock away from the owner. own-er. Even a city bred person per-son knows that stock need to be well-fed to keep them healthy and to make a profit off of them. If these people would fatten up their stock instead of their families it would be much more profitable. Thank You Violet L. Wiler that the readers may become be-come concious of what can happen to them if they happen to have anything the Park Service might want in which event they had better grab it and run. J. D. DiUard |