Slabs and other sorrows
For veterans of Slab City the water at Niland Chamber of Commerce is being shut off. You can still dump tanks there but can't take on water. Shut off 1 Jan '15. Two Rivers rest area Calpat also to clo...
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Phil, things are changing over in Slab-land. There is a move afoot to arrange for ownership of the land itself. The folks that reside there have had conversations with the state about that, and are moving forward. The Salvation Mountain is already owned by that same 'Foundation'.
There is some resistance to the lease-purchase plans, some people are not trusting of the Committee that is heading the move, but they seem to have few choices. If they don't take control of the ground, they stand too find that ownership has been awarded by the state to a power company, or mining outfit...or whomever. Then they'd have to move.
The people that have lived on the Slabs have never been given reason to feel that they are unwanted or trespassing. The cops are thru there often and Border folks and the military. State has never suggested that they should move..until they began making noises about selling the land, so the Slab folks took matters into their own hands.
Gary Haupt
There is some resistance to the lease-purchase plans, some people are not trusting of the Committee that is heading the move, but they seem to have few choices. If they don't take control of the ground, they stand too find that ownership has been awarded by the state to a power company, or mining outfit...or whomever. Then they'd have to move.
The people that have lived on the Slabs have never been given reason to feel that they are unwanted or trespassing. The cops are thru there often and Border folks and the military. State has never suggested that they should move..until they began making noises about selling the land, so the Slab folks took matters into their own hands.
Gary Haupt
