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Show Letters To The Editor questions, not answers. The $33 billion cost figure it provides does not include ( inflation; costs for development, acquisition and maintenance for 2,000 MX warheads; and inevitable cost overruns. Even without the price of lost resources and wildlife, and excluding operating costs, the full figure would be well over $100 billion. The exhibit implies im-plies that people would be able to use all but 25 square miles as they have in the past. It doesn't mention that most of the 24,000 square miles involved would be , severely damaged by construction and Defense Department control for existing uses and that the entire area would be under strict miliraty surveillance sur-veillance by armed "rapid response security teams" and radar detection towers in search of the saboteurs. i The given population growth figure of 6,000 to 8,000 people indicates only the number per operating base, not the immigration number of 102,800 for the peak construction period predicted by less public Air Force document. Neither the fine print nor the appropriate ap-propriate totals are available at the exhibit Karen L. Coulter, Baker, Nev Save canyon Editor: Did you hear about the ski resort that may be built up Cedar Canyon? Sounds exciting doesn't it. I can see it now, our own little resort community with chair lifts, parking lots, restaurants, hotels, lodges, private dwellings and shops. I wonder what inpact this would have on Cedar Canyon? The Association to save Cedar Canyon thinks you, the citizens of Iron County, should be concerned. Once it has been built, our opportunity for input will be gone. Do you ever drive up Cedar Canyon just to get away from it all? Do you enjoy it's beauty, it's solitude and expecially it's autumn colors. Isn't it nice to go someplace that hasn't been developed. We think so. Do you get the same kind of feeling when you drive through Brain Head? Remember the beautiful meadow at Brian Head before the condos, the parking lots and equipment sheds were built. The developers had no master plan, and no concern for the environment. There only thought was for making a fast buck. The Engen Mountain Ski Co. would like us to believe this would not happen. We know from Brain Head and Mount Holly that real estate sales help pay for the ski resort, because ticket sales won't carry it alone. Lets take an imaginary tour up Cedar Canyon, where we will take a look at the Engen Mountain Ski Development in its Phase III stage. Starting at Cedar City, we pFoceed east up U-14, 12 miles. We notice heavy traffic in the canyon. This is no surprise, because the resort can accomodate 5,000 skiers per day, three times more than Brian Head last season. Just as we breakout of the Gulch, we come to the college corral just below the college cabin. The sign says Engen Brain Head in Cedar Canyon? What can we do about it? The Engen Mountain Development Corporation has applied to the the Bureau of Land Management for a lease. The lease involves 320 acres of BLM land which the resort must have. The BLM has to do an Environmental En-vironmental Assessment before the lease can be approved. The BLM is interested in the concern of the public. Please send your letters to Craig Zulet, Bureau of Land Management, P.O. Box 724,. Cedar City, Utah 84720. In conclusion, soon we will know whether or not the MX Missile will be based in our desert. I don't think there will be any surprises. The question is do you want our mountain as well as our deserts overrun and over-developed? Doug Croft Cedar City Obscure facts? Editor: The Air Force has the money to spread any view of its proposed MX missile system that makes it look good, but does this mean we should accept this view without question? The Air Force has stated that its expensive exhibit tour is not intended to "sell" the MX to the public, but as a public service to provide us with accurate ac-curate information. However, I haVe been working on this issue for months, and after seeing the exhibit in Salt Lake City, I feel compelled to report that much of its information is incomplete and misleading; A visitor to the exhibit might expect to Jind inside the answers to fundamental fun-damental questions such as: How many people would move here as a result of the project? The exhibit gives misleading . "response to tese Mountain Resort 4 mile. Now we are turning south off U-14 or up Mary Gower Creek. Our minds go back seven years to the time. Mary Gower Creek was the prettiest tribuitary in the Coal Creek drainage. It will be interesting to see how it has change. We have scarcely scar-cely gone 100 feet when we come to a sewage treatment plant pumping its treated sewage into the Creek. Next to this is a parking lot which takes up all the flat area in the canyon. To our right and left hotels, restaurants, shops and private dwelling begin to appear. We are now turning around at the end of the road. Which was also the end of the road for the beavers and the grassy meadow that once was here. As we leave this small and once beautiful canyon we stare in disbelief at the change that has come over the canyon. Now that We are back to U-14 we proceed (with despafr) up "the canyon. The guide points out the spillover spill-over parking lot on our right. Above the parking lot is the satellite developement which is so prevalent around ski resorts. The private land has been bought up by real estate people and sold for summer homes and cpndo sights, all in the name of progress the guide explains. Coming up on our right is what was Woods Ranch. The developers have removed the old pole fence and paved the meadow for additional parking space. The beginner hill over there just Duilt to take some of the pressure off of the main hill. From the parking lot at Woods Ranch we can look out over all our supposed improvements" to our canyon. We ponder .at the loss of our once undeveloped canyon and wonder how somepeople's economic gain could make up for mother nature's loss". Citizens of Iron County, Cedar Canyon is about to be overrrun with a cancerous ski resort. Do you want a Congratulations Editor: An open letter to John Taylor: Please accept my sincere congratulations oh winning the School Board election for Precinct No.' l. I respect you for running a clean campaign. Of all the elections held, I am of the firm belief that the school boards are the most important and that we provide the best education possible for our children. If I can be of any support to you in the future, please feel free to call on me. Clayton Frehner Cedar City |