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Show ly its wealth. With best wishes to-yon and Si' Jr. and hoping that you can soon be with me in Greater Gunnison. I remain, truly yours, SI PUNKINS'. Si to Alaria. Gunnison, Utah, June 15,1910; My Dear Wife, How is everything coming at the racch? It seems like a long time since I came to tne City. I suppose Si Jr has been growing like a weed since old dad has been gone. I wonder if he will know his old dad when I see hirn again. Things are booming along irj Gunnison Gun-nison as usual'. The seriousness of the City Dads, and the altercations they get into over the momentious public questions furnishes ihe amuse-meut amuse-meut for all the street loafers in town. They have sort of caught their breath since the girls challenged them to a ball game and the deserted streets of last week are once agaiu teeming with their ang''y gestures and wrath-y words in their d'scussion of the establishing estab-lishing of a grade fur the City, This is just oue more step in advance, and with all the wrangling the best . will co-me to the surface- and Gunuison will have an established grade for everybody to build to. With alltheir scraps the Dads are a good husky old bunch and have the welfare of their home town at heart,. Every town thai i lucky enough to have such a council ia sure to come to the frjnt. It often takes at good bit of persevereoce to say what you think is best fur the people you represent, and we are proud that we have such mer. But to get back to the grade. 1 want to tell you that this will be a bigger thing for our growing town than most of us realize. Thousands of dollard have been, spent in our larger lar-ger cities in re-establishing grades-thai grades-thai have been hastily made; We hope the Dads will take their time and Bolve this question for tne future tieedsof Gunnison City rather than for any small personal prejudices at the present. But the way they crawl around on their hands aad knees and scratch maps in the dust is certainly comical in all its serionness. There is another question, the result re-sult of which I am very sorry to note. Possibly my own views may ba-iu error, er-ror, but I wish you to know he w I feel about it, since it affects me as well as all the residents of this section. As I told you before. Gunnison is putting iu a good water system Xow Cen-terneld Cen-terneld needs a good water system for-domestic for-domestic use and for fire protection, just as much as Guunison does. There is plentyof water in the source from which Gunnison is getting its water, for both towns. The cost for a system sys-tem for both tow us would be very little lit-tle more than for eahe; one to put it in Keparately. It seems too bad to me that th'; two towns should not have gone together and put the system in jointly, thus cutting the expense for botn places. It is not only for Gunnison Gun-nison we are boosting, we want the whole valley to grow, for a prosperous prosper-ous commuuity surrounding a town increases its business and consequent-, |