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bout the offer, Moore elaborated on the Ski Area’s difficulties, and admitted that some moves may have been made too fast—such as installing new snow-makingequipment, refurbishing existing lifts and installing others, putting in extra snow-making capacity, &c.,
He talked again, almost wistfully, of ‘‘the good days in February” of last year. ••When the weather was going good, the energy crisis hit and there was no gas available for people to get out from the District. Still, we took in $58,000 over a ten-day period, which was one-third of the year's gross of $150,000.”
He estimated that “with good weather, the area could gross $300,000 a year, easily.”
‘‘The week before Christmas was good,” he continued, going over again a bitter experience that he must have recalled hundreds of times. ‘‘There was natural snow and cold weather, and we had a good crowd even on Christmas Eve. Then it rained three inches on the 26th of December, and normally December 26 to the Sunday after New Year’s is our best time of the year. We took in $5,000 during that period, instead of the $75,000 that we would have otherwise.”
Jim'Moore was philosophic, under the circumstances. ‘‘We made long studies of the weather, and we thought that we could make up
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