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Show A Letter To Garfield County Voters TAKE A NEW LOOK AT YOUR COUNTY Garfield County has most everything. From world famous Bryce Canyon, high mountain peaks; fprests, lakes and streams, semi-deserts, deep rugged and colorful gorges and cliffs, natural bridges, Indian ruins, everything from 12,000 ft to 3000 elevation. We also have clear blue skies with starry heavens and even Hell's Backbone. Add to this wonderful hunting and fishing and what else could one want? The finest people in the world, we have them too. With all this, all Is not well with our county. Our population grew with the livestock industry and declined v.ith It. Failure to find new sources of incomo has cost us one fifth of our population and we are still exporting our young folks upon whom we depend to carry on. Where will It end? Our towns are growing old, our people are growing old. With our young people leaving, land is being sold to outside interests who have no interest in developing our county. This is just the beginning. Along with a changing world a change Is going to take place in our county. Two types of people will be buying our land. The first will be summer cottagers and will buy along our lakes and streams in the most beautiful spots for summer homes. Many of them will be very nice people and will spend some money In our county. Also we will get some for taxes on improvements. The next group will be land speculators. We have always had some of them such as those who take everything they can get by just paying the taxes. This year an out- ilt in Salt Lake City sent to both Garfield and Kane clerks blank checks to buy for them any land which might come up for tax sale. Fortunately in our county they didn't get anything. There are two other types of land speculators less de-slreable who are not here yet because Garfield County has not yet been discovered. It soon will be. Then the capital gain boys and the promotion boys will be all over the place. Lake Powell will present many problems as well as opportunities. Are we prepared to meet them? I have been In the touriat business for over 20 years and I know several things we should be doing In the county. A few new Ideas should not hurt our county. We are still going down hill on the old ones. s Dell Wilson |