Show lonely isolation Is mesa miner s lot it all gravy working I 1 in the uranium mines there theres the loneliness that goes with it IL high up on beaver mesa working as superintendent of the pack hat mine is william turner 24 year old navy veteran he ile and his wife ife live together on the mesa but they must send their young son to live with friends at gateway colo so he can attend school although it is but 17 miles from their mesa home to gateway there is a drop of some 2000 feet in altitude in that district and the trails are precipitous and dangerous they try to make the trip every week but there are cloudbursts in summer and fall and snow in the winter that orten often prevent them from making the trip turner said he and his wife have been marooned on mountain sides for as long as four days because 0 of f storms they have but few visitors and when they do come it usually is a business visit there are men working at the mine but when they get a chance they take out like a cyclone says turner because of the remoteness of their location and lack of hat people living in towns and cities consider commonplace services the turners hunger for reading material company and bright lights miners come up here to try this kind of work he comments but they miss the sidewalks and soon leave |