Letter Concerning the Grand Canyon

Letter: To Stewart Udall and Commissioner Dominy, from Mrs. B.J. Miller, 10 Je 66 (thermofax), page 1Mrs. B. F. Miller 172 North Ninth Brx 1367 Laramie, Wyoming 82070 (??) Pash Cols 10 fe 66 An Open Letter to Secretary Udall and Commissioner Dominy: We have just returned from one of our many tripe to the fassinating State of Arizona, but this time disturbed by the many "signs of progress". I would like to comment on a fos. Somewhere in the Chandler area the flet dry hot desert has been ploughed and checkered into ten-acre plote advertised in huge "signs" as leisure enterprice retirement ecrea! Sorry I didn't take pictures. Travelling from Williams to the Grand Canyon we found a "city" laid out on the lovely juniper-dotted table-lands. It's a good cattle country but cold, anowy and windewept for nine months of the year. If you bought a lot you might help catch other suckers. The Saturday Evening Post has pictures of this "sign of progress". Government publications are ballyhooing lake Powell near Page as the beautiful canyon country now "available to the millions". We that we should see this so "chaptered a little boat and its pilot. It was a beautiful still day, with what was left of the cliffe mirrored in the still water. In a year or two, the guide said, the water would rise another hundred feet or so. (See Floyd Dominy's pictures in the Sierre Club Bulletin for May 1966) "But" I said "Then there won't be any canyone. What will you do for the tourists then?" "Oh, just go farther up the Lake to other canyons." Find" I replied. "That makes more expensive boat ridee for the marina owner, water will be lapping at foot of Rainbow Bridge, the Lake will be silting up, the water evaporating, and the plans for power development becoming more obsolete."Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 2,248,554 byte