Show A Letter to Midge tto Dear beer r Midge Our winter weather seems to toh h have broken ken but you yo have heard the saying It takes more than thanOM one OM swallow to make a sum Mim- m mer t So as al yet our flannels are not hOt in mothballs mothball In tn our local paper The Times Times- Independent dent there was a statement statement state state- ment that Moab at present is the fastest growing city in the United States New buildings crowded classroom classroom class class- room conditions in school more people on the streets and in the stores tell us that the statement must be true In many conversations these statements can be heard There will be a lot of oC empty classrooms classrooms class class- rooms next year We Ve are going go ing jag to have a new Senior High School building and additions to o the two elementary schools Over building over building Real neal estate will VIII hit the bottom rung Time will tell who Is Js right But companies and Individuals are not going to spend money for or or new buildings and new busInesses bus bus- nesses messes Just for the joy of do doing doIng doIng ing it They are ore doing It because they have looked the economic economie econ- econ mic omie situation carefully and feel that hat this Is a good place to Invest inest invest in- in vest est in some enterprise Among those new new enterprises is a new shopping center to be built a n new trailer park Is beIng being be be- ing built eventually it will have space for over three hundred mobile homes there is a new motel in the process of construction construction construction con con- and houses are going up in every part of town Trailers are parked In everyplace everyplace every everyplace place one is allowed to park We marvelled at one trailer parked at the foot of a small hill From the road It looks as if a derrick or a crane had to place It there no visible visible visible vis vis- ible means of getting It over the usual routes can be seen These people have found their parking space and will make a COZY home Out in Spanish Valley VaHey to the south and east of here more buildings trailer courts can be seen We Ve were amazed at the new buildings that have been constructed this past winter Where once a light or two could I Ibe In the there arel I Inow be seen valley vaHey are now scores of lights each one announcing a homesite Next year I hope to make a report of which faction wins Tha pessimist empty classroom mer over er building faction or the optimistic optimistic op op- go ahead and build faction A A man Irian who has recently purchased purchased pur pur- chased one of the motels in town has this to say Tourist TourIst Tourist Tour po possibilities S sib III tl e s here are beyond imagination with such sucha a vast collection of the greatest greatest greatest great great- est scenic attractions in the United States We fully agree with him As I walked to the Post Office the other evening and looked at the snow capped La Sal Mountains extra Mountains extra ultra white against the blue sky- sky t then en turn around to view the red rocks that stand guard at atthe atthe the entrance to the Colorado River Canyon I know many who c come com o m e to look around will become fascinated with this beautiful and fantastic scenery and will remain to help Moab grow and grow Love PEPITA |