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Served noon til 4:30 pm. 4300 S. Texas Ave. • 846-5752 EL PASO — The Tigua Indians threw open the doors to a high- stakes bingo hall with eager antici pation Tuesday night, hoping their first gambling venture will be the forerunner of a full-fledged casino. Hundreds of enthusiastic peo ple lined up outside the 900-seat Speaking Rock Bingo and Enter tainment Center on the tribe's El Paso County reservation hours be fore the hall even opened. The early arrivals were enter tained by tribal singers belting out ritual songs to the accompaniment of reverberating, drums while a young man clad in white eagle headdress and wings circled in front of the center's doors in a tra ditional dance. Then tribal leaders came for ward to praise the tribe's newest — and they believe most promis ing — commercial endeavor. "Our^people have traveled a road of poverty," said tribal Gov. Julian Granillo. "Today is a new beginning for our people." The high-stakes "superbingo" offers sessions six days a week with prizes ranging from $400 to progressive jackpots of up to $10,000 and $50,000. That was enough to quicken the pulses of gambling enthusiasts like Carl Marks, who said he has played high-stakes bingo in Las Vegas, although he doesn't see as much need to travel now. "If they had this type of gam bling here, there's really no reason why I have to leave town," said Marks, who said he will return to Speaking Rock if he enjoys his first session. That's the kind of thing tribal leaders want to hear, although the opening of the gaming center has them seeing more than just dollar signs. They also see the beginning of a new age of self-sufficiency for the Tiguas. Projections say Speaking Rock could generate up to $6 million for the tribe each year. Seven Cir cle Resorts, the management com pany hired to run it, has guaran teed the tribe will receive at least $50,000 each month. The tribe is hoping the facility will eventually give way to a more lucrative casino, but the state has refused to negotiate on a necessary gambling treaty and forced the Tiguas to file suit in federal court. The Tiguas won the first round of the legal battle when U.S. Dis trict Judge Lucius Bunton recently ordered Texas to negotiate the compact which will allow them to build the proposed $70 million gaming complex. The state is ap pealing that decision. The tribe would receive a mini mum payment of $300,000 a month from the casino, according to the contract with Denver-based Seven Circle. "The many dreams that we've had are just beginning," said trib al elder Miguel Pedraza. But the flip side of those dreams has been the nightmares envisioned by charity groups that rely on bingo for operating rev enue. They fear the tribe's bingo hall will drive out many of tk smaller charitable operations and cut heavily into the profits of the larger ones. 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