Show 9 THE EDITORS MAIL BOX 4 advantages OF monticello AND SAN JUAN attractions monticello Montt cello utah july 8 1934 editor san ran junn juan record the discussion at a meeting of the rlue blue mountain civic club saturday ills lit pave gave me the idea of writing a few lines for your estimable piper the talk ot of sir mr ott engineer in chare of the laying of the alie new pipe line in lie urged the more inore thor elior 0 advertising of Montle ellos natural resources as a summer desoi resort I 1 in or der to increase our population I 1 feel nas aas well timed I 1 was MIS constrained to smile however alt ait ills his accusation of dilatoriness on the part of our cit eizens in not advertising our addan tag tapes more at the same ti time I 1 appreciate his enthus enthusiasm losin in laud ing the advantages of our climate anil and scenic wonders and trying to t tin ini press on us its the importance of brinz ing them to the attention of the public much more so from the f that j I 1 hall for the past fifteen years tout ed them weekly thru tilt the medium mel luin ot of this publication of ahja I 1 was at one time editor in fact my ravings had sone gone on so pei that I 1 hail had become the town joke ing lias has as yet seemingly come of my efforts eff oits now I 1 am slad glad to hear of one person who appreciates the advantages which surround us its and feel well paid tho I 1 spent hundreds of dollars in effort and lucrey and finally went broke in the eff effort rt I 1 still see visions of monticello Sl as n u residential anil and eln eilt cat rational ional center I 1 also see a long ions de dd lay ahead before tile the iscu lson comes unless the ali people as mr ott urges come alive anil and get behind an e effort to tring bring it abolt alio it first monticello must anve an adequate ed equate water and light system the efforts of the monticello ai town hoard boari if to was bring this about has lia ha 1 the tha ef feet of getting at leist it a start along that line altho just liow low far it will lie perfected I 1 ell remains to ile he had it not i hen bean tor for tho the town 1110 T doubt that any anything would have lieen been anne atrid and it it ir a kiv tatt thel liae not lieen been ims j vet it a ii 11 w installed with the ne ime of alwa funds as they ibave lieen been trying that would have been been the foundation tor for the growth of t the tha town as 1 toy by mr ir ott in liis its talk t ilk second enow h effort lias nt been maile made to make ot world fai ninis seen eren le ic attractions the naburn accessible access iole to the tr ir avelina public pull lc true ole e have been in securing an onto rona to to them tills this road all has neen morn more or ir iss pa pasi saile able fir a cf t ysias tilt ut their attractiveness tr ht haq been and the advertisement 0 of them has lieen been more or less detrimental because ol of tile tact fact that after reaching the end of the rond road practically nothing hal ha been done forthe comfort of ithe sight seer after ills ardovin trip to reach them for six years occasional auto t tourists 0 have gone there only to find 0 on n ar arriving rivin that they must of feces sity climb down a precipice of some hundreds of t feet in order to secure si a lb 19 of water ith which to ot off the dust of travel ravel or to cook a meat meal no tollet or sanitary are as yet to lie be lad had there then in or der to see the greatest of them un sin sir nr dous hike bike or trip is necessary over practically no trail at all I 1 could go on indefinitely with wit thir thirds ils fourths etc but suffice to say that now that we have two working wor liing civic in tile the county they should periodically get together freely discuss their mutual problems and vy so doing gradually throw off our spir it or of self sufficiency and work together for the up building of the coull ty tv as a I holc iole II 11 T lillie I 1 anke |