Show grand junction Is affee affected ed by boom effects of the uranium in ia d du growth on grand junctions economy Is reflected JAI the increase in salaries reported in nine major businesses bus in 1953 malor and 1954 ft t has been estimated that over more was paid hut but in the form of salaries during 1954 than in 1953 1053 A cutback cut back in salary galary with accompanying compa nying layoffs by the denver and rao grande railroad amounting to approximately one million ilion dollars cut seriously into the gains made by industrial etan bUsh blish ments here however the railroad remained the top employer in the district with a total of 1228 workers in the grand junction division and a payroll of during 1954 in the eight other employers contacted in the survey the total tokal payroll increase over 0 v e r 1953 amounted to and each of the businesses was directly affected by the uranium urani urn industry these included ed mineral minerals engineering gi climax uranium and the atomic energy commission others contacted which were directly affected by uranium um through population growth were vim the mountain mour state telephone telegraph co district jboob men idea college public co and mind the ortya newspaper neww paper the daily sentinel the atomic energy comalli foa sion with its related group ae counts for the d arg largest payroll in the district aft latt employee employees as of od aug 1 IQ as compared w to at ur the tm av of iz 1953 s payroll for 19 w for ABC and md installations serving ft directly uch such as walker iberger U S geological service Amft american ican smelling Sm elting sc national lead co and galigher co public service CO employed people and reported a payroll of about for 1954 mountain state states telephone bone bad had worker workers on a mayrom estimated at minerals engineers employees byees and estimated tm t pa payroll of daily sentinel workers pay 1 roll of mesa college 58 employees employee and d a payroll of R mesa mesa colleges reported payroll was a drop from during 1953 when there were 69 full time e employees the drop off being attributed to a cutback cut back in the farm training program under the veterans administration |