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Show I " 1 ! By Jack Wallis I ' A j "that the preliminary figures are I the 1980 decennial U.S. census, 1 cities think they were short-Even short-Even though more money has j : ably been spent, and great j ons taken than with any other J E-s, there seems to be room for , iri of errors. ral judge in Detroit started the I rolling by ruling that the census was 1 ,ed and demanded the U.S. Census ,a make adjustments for minority r-?5 thought to have been missed. kal crux of the matter' is the funds and the one-man-one-vote Ration that is based on the ' :illon cunts. Those areas with counts will lose funds and mentation by reapportionment. ulbe more serious. So it looks wnsus Bureau has a tiger by local basis it has also been in-""8 in-""8 w watch the population ,1s me out of studies made by il ?1?' have been projecting the ,'. the Uintah Basin's energy -Wients. j'.Preliminary population study -aioo"1 PPulation increasing 4 Pulation of 34,009 in what . .. a h;g!i development scenario V.W and 59019 in the year ti , private studv has the , J Ashley Valley listed at : 'Wlgoing to 36,800 in 1990 and ... ,n year 2000. Still another '4BaSi lecase made by 'he atonr gy Council office -3 "gureof 95,000 for the Basin u ne instruction peak about 'rS1'0" Irt8 are quick to hu figures are imt 'inform . 1 when more ac" 'ised TKn 'S receiveQ they will ;'nnt planners blame in-' in-' Nation Providing more accurate ;'5 And thCnCerning their future ;'-rst0s!!n 'ndustry looks to the L: round a at is 8ing to happen V and nd they go. fcr5 game has tions Z he most expensive is it w(.undertaken. Just how J t0 exactly the !atin ten ?m and Projected J i Hues a twenty years in the P'ject Lh .U,nts 03,1 be spent on and stm not come up with k accurate answers. Instead of increasing in-creasing our accuracy it seems like the more detailed studies only increase the flaws in the head count process and we wonder if we will ever know just how many real persons there are walking the highways and byways of the U.S. All these counts are just preliminary. By the time the final count is decided our population will have changed, so what good is a census count to the last head anyway? Another problem we see with our population growth is the idea of building a new community in the Basin near the areas generating growth to accommodate this growth. Officials representing HUD who have visited this area seem to be of the opinion that a new community will be needed closer than the existing communities com-munities are to the energy developments develop-ments planned for this area. Local officials have expressed themselves concerning the projected population growth. They contend that the existing communities can handle the growth and that the population should be absorved into the existing communities rather than to build a new community just for energy workers. In fact, Richard Dewey, manager of American Gilsonite mine at Bonanza told us Monday, that he had been in the mining business for over 40 years and lived in many towns and it was his experience that if you built a town just for miners, it would be too rough of a town. It just wouldn't work. The miners are better off disbursed throughout the existing communities than concentrated con-centrated in a new town near the plants, Dewey stressed. It sounds reasonable that if a new town was built, larger than any that now exist in the area, located near the energy developments planned for the area around Bonanza, it would have the potential of being one of the toughest towns in the country. Rock Springs, Wyoming and Harlan, Kentucky would be model towns compared to what could develop in southeastern Uintah County. The pressure will be hard on the existing towns, but in the long run if the HUD money can be used to further develop the existing communities, the money would be better spent there than building another community out in the desert. |