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Show Land Board member took a look at "Ticaboo" townsite By Barbara Ekker Paul S. Rattle, member of the Utah State Land Board from Moab visited the proposed propos-ed "Ticaboo Development" site this week prior to ' the Board's hearing in Salt Lake City on the proposed community commun-ity for eastern Garfield County south of Hanksville. The proposed town, Ticaboo, will be located 10 miles north of Bullfrog Basin on Lake Powell. If approved this community would supply services and facilities for approximately 170 to 200 Plateau Resources, Ltd. uranium mine and mill workers work-ers and ther families. An additional 25 to 30 families are expected to supply the secondary secon-dary services for the subdivision. subdivis-ion. The proposed site is a school section (Sec. 16, T31S, RUE) owned by the State of Utah and surrounded by federal lands under the management of BLM. Plateau Resources, Ltd. owns and operates a uranium mine approximately 5 miles northwest of the subdivision site. The company plans on constructing a uranium processing pro-cessing mill with 750 tons a day capacity and increasing the company's employment from the present 75 to 80 mine workers to the proposed 170 to 200 mine and mill workers. The proposed action would supply the necessary housing, social and educational services for the workers and their families. The applicant, Ticaboo Development De-velopment Corp. will take the necessary land restoration measures, according to the agreement with the land management agencies and the State of Utah. No towns or hamlets are found in eastern Garfield County, except for a mining camp at Shoot-A-Ring Canyon, Can-yon, population 70 miners. Vast expanses of land, approximately ap-proximately 2700 square miles from Escalante and Boulder on the west to Lake Powell on the east is inhabited only by an occasional sheep and cattle herder or hardy recreational-ist. recreational-ist. The closest towns are Hanksville in Wayne County, 68 miles north, Bullfrog Basin in Kane County, 10 miles south of the proposed site. Garfield county has a population popula-tion of 2701 according to the 1970 census which are in eight communities within the western west-ern half of the county. At their January 20 meeting meet-ing at the State Capitol Building Build-ing in Salt Lake, the State Land Board granted Right of Entry to Ticaboo Development, Develop-ment, Inc. of Green River to begin their Garfield County Subdivision. This is the first time in history of Utah, since Brig-ham Brig-ham Young laid out the plans for Salt Lake, that a town has been planned before any building buil-ding began. Most Utah communities com-munities began with farmers and ranchers "homesteading" ground and a community grew from there. |
