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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service (801) 328-8678 SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ~GhostTown • Continued from B-1 ) ,mv as the ghost town itself. The group is composed of citizen groups and liberal organizations, ranchers and environmentalists - groups that are often on opposite sides of public-lands issues. "The group includes conservative landowners to tree-huggers," said Doug Alder, who served as the fund-raising chairman of the partnership. "We're all on the same page here." Anne Stanworth, .a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, a partner iIi : the group, said Grafton offers a model for other situations. "~ ~ "It's a great example that we can sit down together and make things happen," she said. The partnership is now looking for funding to restore several other buildings still standing in the town, including the Russell House, a derelict building with a restoration price tag alone of$l50,OOO. The Grafton Heritage Partnership hopes to build a bridge over the nearby Virgin River to allow only pedestrian traffic to the site. Rockville Mayor David Hatfield, the former president of the partnership, said the group de- Graft( cided there had to be something done to defend the area from development. .. ~.\. ' "We just said, 'We have to do something to preserve and restore the buildings out at Grafton,' " he said. "To see that the town remains as it was, for the town descendants, for future generations and for the \.. heritaf of the area." -/ I __ --_ rt .. ._ - |
