Show Business of the Week They dig their business by Ken Rand How many people do you know who have dinosaurs named after them? You can add Ava Cole to your list Avaceratops Lammersi is named after her This is how her husband Eddy tells the story: “In 1981 I was working in Montana where I found a dinosaur Ava and I and a couple people working for me at the time opened up a quarry there We didn’t know what we were getting into at the time but when we finally got all the materials out to our shop in South Dakota we called some experts who came to our place and looked at it It turned out the bones were of a small ceretopsian This one was a brand new dinosaur genera and species and they named the genera of the dinsosaur after Ava and the species was named after the rancher whose land it was found on” Eddy and Ava Cole are the owners of “Ancient Critters” Their base of operations is their home at 44 W 400 S in Delta There in his shop next to the house Eddy prepares fossils for sale to “dealers museums and institutions all over the world” Eddy says Ava makes jewelry Eddy says his biggest clients are the comes whose fascination Japanese from the lack of any dinosaurs native to Japan Other buyers include merAustralia chants in New Zealand Europe and othef dealers in the United States “There are collectors in the he United States” says “but they to the aren’t anything compared Japanese Germans Swiss and Italians These people are real collectors I guess it’s a form of savings” Ava makes jewelry out of trilobites and dinosaur teeth and other ancient critters and critter parts She says her trilobite jewelry mounted in silver sells well “Good luck bugs" she calls them Searching the ground for its wealth came easy for Eddy “My family has been into prospecting and living off the land as far back as we’ve been able to find” he said “They were in all of the gold rushes” Ava and Eddy were married 21 years ago Eddy had gold fever but it was Ava who found the gold in South Dakota She spotted a whole panful of it and they opened a mine The mine didn’t pan out But in the mine sluicebox other bits of shiny metals rocks crystals and other things caught Ava’s sharp eye and sparked the Cole’s interest The business is about 16 years old “We spent probably the first three years that we were actually in business making a living off the land searching for precious metals” Eddy says “That graduated into crystals or mineralogy But fossils turned out to be a more lucrative aspect of it and much more interesting” Eddy went to the School of Mines in Rapid City to and Technology sharpen his expertise in paleontology There are about 2000 minerals known to man Eddy says You can collect only so much “There has been million different over fossils described” he says “And there is no way in a lifetime you could possibly collect one of each” Eddy and Ava have collected literally tons of fossils “For sheer volume” Eddy says “I’ve estimated we could have filled the Houston Astrodome We’ve taken rare species and made them fairly common” The move to Delta was prompted Eddy says because the city is centrally located geologically to his field of inHe travels throughout terest the western states collecting fossils of all kinds “We checked St George and Las Vegas” he said “But I really didn’t want my kids going to school in Las Vegas Too big a city” The Cole’s have two kids 19 and four When I walked into his shop Eddy showed me a fossilized tooth of a dinosur he had just pieced together “See the serrated edges on the tooth” he said holding it up to the light “This was a carnivorous creature” Little ridges ran along the front and back of the long curved tooth It must have taken hours to clean and reconstruct that tooth Eddy had another one on his workbench he was fitting together like a jigsaw puzzle The walls of his shop are covered with shelves on which sit dozens of cardboard boxes filled with trilobites of dinosur bones and fragments specimens of a variety of minerals in various stages of preparation Eddy says there is nothing about dinosaurs that is not currently salable “There’s all the animated displays going on around the country” he says “And if you watch TV your kids are being inundated by cereal and toys and else that is ” everything Fossil hunters are sometimes a bane to landowners Not Eddy He offers to share the profits from fossils he finds with the landowners something he says is unique in his field “We’ve shared an awful lot of money with ranchers” he says “and in this day and age ranchers need every bit of income they can get” Eddy readily admits he feels more at home in the field with sheep and snakes that he does with people hence he prefers wholesale to retail While Eddy and Ava Cole do keep a couple of cats at home still it seems their favorite critters are ancient ones Bonds Continued from front page The money has gone to alleviate a variety of IPP impacts in the county Uses included construction of a public safety building and jail in Fillmore pay for additional staff in each of the counof ty’s elective offices construction part of a road from Delta to the plant site upgrading of another road and of computers and road purchase maintenance equipment among other things Money also went toward the vocational school a new middle school and a grade school in Delta and additions to schools in Fillmore The special elections for the Com- mission and the School District bond issues were to have been held Tuesday 13 with the in conjunction Sept primary election Millard County Greenhouse faces stiff competition for state loan by Ken Rand A proposal to build a commercial greenhouse in Kanosh is among 51 applications for a share of a special S2 million fund the Utah Energy Office will distribute before the end of the year Millard Administrator County Robyn Pearson said the Energy Office has not revealed the total sum being requested by the applicants “but I would imagine there is many many times the money that is available” But Pearson said he thinks the project would be good for the county and a good bet to win funding “We feel really good about the greenhouse” he said “It would involve a renewable resource with no impact on the environment” The greenhouse would be heated by geothermal energy The project is being proposed by who Rodney Ford of Bountiful operates a similar greenhouse in Rifle Colorado Ford said the greenhouse would employ about 100 people in eastern Millard County and generate a revenue of about $25 million a year It vould grow three million pounds of tomatoes a year Ford has asked the Utah Energy Office for a $1 9 million loan to get started Utah has received about $4 million in a recent settlement of an oil company overcharge case The Utah Energy Office will distribute the money The Office imposed a Monday 15 Aug deadline to apply for it The Office must now evaluate the 51 applications received by the deadline and decide who gets how much A ruling is pected by the end of the year Energy Office officials say they will look most favorably on projects that use conservation strategies to enhance economic development provide a maximum leverage of funds and make use of renewable energy sources create jobs and improve the tax base Pearson said the greenhouse fits the criteria very well Pearson said the Office of Economic Development is “very very high on the project” and is helping in the application process Many of the applications are for research and development projects which Pearson says are fine but results are difficult to predict “Instead of plowing the money into 15 different research projects” he said “we’d like to see that money go right into jobs with an immediate benefit an immediate impact” Pearspn said he was amazed the way the state cut through red tape to accomodate the PEPCON relocation to Cedar City in the state legislature’s July special session “We would like to see the governor do as much for this project” he said “We have a viable project It is ready to go It has been tested L'SPS and proven and we are committed to it” The next step is to try to get a Pearson meeting with the governor said He said he and State Rep Joe have met with the four Moody legislators who are on the subcommitand Natural tee of the Energy Resources Committee responsible for distribution of the funds “They said in their estimation the project would have to be way high on the list” he said Pearson said the project would give people in eastern Millard County an alternative for jobs “It would really be an asset” he said Millard County may withdraw from CUP by Ken Rand The Millard County Commission has tabled discussion of withdrawing from the Central Utah Project in the wake of a report by CUP officials who say an irrigation canal can be built from Reservoir east of the Strawberry Wasatch Mountains to the county Commissioner Mike Styler was to have presented the case for withdrawal from the CUP at the commission meeting in Fillmore Tuesday Aug 23 when CUP That was General Manager Don Christiensen and irrigation engineer Sheldon Talbot said the canal system was possible Congress has ruled out all irrigation projects from federal funding which is how Millard County would have fit into the CUP “If Congress is not going to help fund any further irrigation portions of the projects” Styler said “it’s highly doubtful we’ll receive any water” But CUP has another angle that doesn’t involve federal funding Styler said CUP contends they are entitled to some of the profits from the Bonneville Unit (which covers a huge area in cenRiver tral Utah) of the Colorado Storage Project which supplies electricity in the West “CUP will meet with the Western WAPA Area Power Administration for short” Styler said “and the other people from public power some in and some out of the state to negotiate for access to a couple hundred million dollars to build the project” The project would involve building a tunnel from Strawberry Reservoir to Spanish Fork Canyon and building a canal from there to Mona Reservoir north of Nephi Canals and pumping stations would be built from there to the Yuba Dam near Scipio from which canals already exist to bring the water into the fields of west Millard County The system would deliver about of water to the Sevier 36000 River and Garfield counties on the south and Millard and Juab counties on the north-f- or supphmen-ta- l irrigation Tburi Beginning Sept 12 sales at the Delta Livestock Auction will be held on Mondays instead of Tuesdays Governor gets calls on waste dump position from the office of A spokesman Governor Norm Bangerter telephoned the Chronicle Progress Monday to correct an apparent misunderstanding about the governor’s position on the waste proposed Lynndyl hazardous dump Assistant Executive Governor’s Barclay Gardner said several Millard County residents have called to ask why the governor favors the facility He said Bangerter neither favors nor disfavors the plant “He believes that this is a local matter and people m the local areas should make the decisions that they think best for them” Gardner said Fillmore Utah 2 1988 10:00 am Halter Classes Weanlings 1988 2 Yearlings 1987 3 Two Yr Olds 1986 4 Three Yr Olds 1985 5 Four Yr Olds 1984 6 Mature Saddle Type Five and Older 7 Mature-PacType 8 Most Colorful Mule (Appaloosas Pintos etc) 9 Grand and Reserve Champion Halter Mule (1st & 2nd places in classes 10 Jacks (miniature standard mamouth) 11 Mule Mothers (exposed to Jack) of same Jack) 12 Get of Sire (3 Packing Classes (immediately following the halter classes) 1 13 Box Hitch 14 Diamond Hitch 14A One-ma-n Pack Scramble Dutch Oven Cook Off Ice Cream Freeze Off (on lawn by race paddock) Mule Race Stock Classes 15 Working Cow 16 Team Roping Mule Race 17 Steer Stopping 18 Team Penning National Anthem 7:00 pm (flags only) 19 Working Pack Train (2 or more mu!es)(in PARADE 30 Western Pleasure (green) Western Pleasure (open) 32 Mule Race 200 yards 33 Western Trail (green) 34 Western Trail (open) 35 Western Riding (green) 36 Western Riding (open) 37 Balloon Race AUCTION (at 3:00 pm on track) 31 DINNER (at 4:30 on East lawn) CHUCKWAG0N CL0GGERS (directed by Jill Carroll) if in events) MANDATORY (6:00 pm Mule Race 300 yards Mule Braying Contest (limited to 15 persons Register at gate) Mule Race 300 yards Performance Classes CREEK ROCKY MOUNTAIN GRAND ENTRY 38 English Hunter Under Saddle (green) 39 English Hunter Under Saddle (open) Mule Race 400 yards 40 Reining (green) 41 Reining (open) arena) 20 Musical Tires (on track) 21 Branding Race (arena) Gymkhana Classes Key hole (track) 22 23 24 25 26 SEPTEMBER 3 1988 10:00 am (2nd North and Main) GRAND ENTRY (at Fairgrounds 12:00 pm) Performance Classes in Arena 28 English Pleasure Saddle Mule (green) 29 English Pleasure Saddle Mule (open) SATURDAY WILDG00SE Barrel Racing (arena) Pole Bending (track) Trailer Race (arena) Pack Scramble (Golden Spike vs Corn Creek) Stock Classes (top 3 winners of 42 Working Cow 43 Team Roping Musical Tires (on track) 44 Steer Stopping 45 Team Penning Pack Scramble Friday afternoon) Page 3 sales days SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SEPTEMBER 19U Auction changes MILLARD MULE RENDEZVOUS FRIDAY Sept “I don’t Styler remains skeptical think they’ll be able to talk the municipal power users in Utah to a 30 percent rate increase which is what it would take” he said Those users include every city getting its public power from the Colorado River “Those cities include Oak City and Fillmore in this area but they also include Logan Bountiful Murray Provo and cities like Los Angeles too” Styler said “I told them in my opinion you’ve monumental a fight coming up and got I don’t think you’ll win They said they’ve been mandated to reach an agreement with these folks by January 15th of 1989” Styler said Millard County has been a part of the project for 20 years and has paid about $12 million in ad valorem taxes This is the first year IPP will be included in the tax base bringing the county’s bill this year alone to a million dollars Styler said “We’re very hesitant to pay a million dollars to a project that we’re not going to get any water from” he said “In my opinion it’s too great a risk to wait until January 15th” Styler said “but we might have to wait and see I just don’t know” Styler said the matter will probably be discussed again in a couple of weeks when testimony can be heard from who rigation company presidents weren’t present at the commission meeting The commission will also look for a formal resolution from the Farm Bureau Styler said the Millard County Farm Bureau has taken a position the county should get out of the CUP Several irrigation companies have also met recently to endorse county withdrawal from the project |