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Show Rents Up 100, Folks At Green River Hold Firm 14 Fulltime Deputies In County Clerk Office In 1952, only one part time dep- When economic and social struc- uty was employed in the San Juan Rents GREEN RIVER, Utah have gone up, food prices have tures become unbalanced there County, Utah, recorders office at raised but not out of line" with usually occurs a crime wave, but Monticello. Now there are 14 depthere seems to be no large in- uties and since May of 1954 the other communities, and the population of Green River has grown crease in crime locally, and the office force has worked as much by some 350 to 400 people since juvenile delinquency rate appears as 14 hours daily, split into two 1945. That is the story of Green to be quite a bit lower than the shifts. River, according to the Green national rate." Recording fees in 1952 totaled River Service Club, Inc. The main reason, in my opinion, $3,5Q0; in 1953 they were $16,000, of has River the Green the that James Hurst, president of and in 1954 recording fees for the city Service Club, mailed out a ques- not benefitted from the uranium month of September alone were to to more than it has local tionnaire citizens asking industry date, $16,400. specific questions, such as; What is the high price property owners The county recorder said that beon vacant lots and have arisen prohave put ten mining record books are comspecific problems cause of the boom?, and, Has perties in and near the townsite," pletely filled each month with new the new growth in population over- wrote one of the local citizens." registrations, while Salt Lake countaxed your school, hospital and He added: Rents have also in- ty fills an average of only four. doctor facilities? creased out of proportion to other Answers Mr. Hurst r ec e I v e d prices and wages. Many people Adjacent to the Monument Valto his questionnaire show that who otherwise would have erected ley area near Monticello are the uranium mining and related in- new buildings and entered business Great Goosenecks of the San Juan dustries have had a definite ef- here have had to move on to State Park, where ages ago the fect on the economy of Green some other town where they could San Juan River cut its channel BAGGED MOUNTAIN, where some uranium exploration was River. Trucks engaged in ore haul- buy property or could rent pro- in great convolutions through solid started last summer and where it will be continued this spring. ing and headquartered in Green perty at a more reasonable price. rock, cutting back on itself to such River, railroad cars loaded there, Green River does have its boom-i- t an extent from in some places Explorers are hopeful that profitable discoveries will be made, miners and prospectors working is problem, but perhaps on a there are only a few feet of high although the area is in an almost inaccessible location so far as out of the town, and several min- smaller scale than in other com- rock wall separating the bed oi ore transportation is concerned. The plane in the field at lower the river. ing companies with offices in munities oa the Plateau. right is used by the farmer owning the property shown here. town all contribute to the increase-e- d amount of money spent here. To meet any continuing and permanent growth, some long range planning has been developed, such $3 as the present expansion plans for and sewage disThree new uranium processing The men and women who settled the water supply the plans are not plants are slated for construction the vast 5,045,760 acres that is posal.in However, GREEN RIVER MINING CENTER the construction stage. yet as ore continues to flow at an San Juan So far as can be seen from County, Utah, were of rate from the rich picture, there is not, necessity ranchers and cattlemen. the present Colorado Plateau. as yet, a boom locally, wrote one EXPLOSIVES - SUPPLIES - EQUIPMENT Plans are well under way for They settled the land in 1880 and contributor who is a member of sew ore mills to handle unrefined they met and conquered every ob- the club. INFORMATION - HAULING uranium from the Big Indian Wash stacle, from ruinous floods, stubfood and of Prices everyday district near Moab, Utah. The Jo needs of the average family have Dandy ore body near Bedrock, born drouths, crop searing winds, not increased during PHONE 2471 Colo., is another high producing to Indian uprisings as recent as the materially past few years, other than area that requires milling facilities. 1923, and marauding outlaws. the gradual increase that has ocAnd the Atomic Energy CommisThey were without mail service, curred in other cities and towns UTAH GREEN RIVER sion reports that a mill is needed doctors or medicines, and their off the Plateau. at Hite, Utah, to treat ores compost was at Man-ioHowever, it is conceded that ing from the White Canyon dis- dearest supply Colo., 150 miles away, from growth of the city has taxed school trict. A provisional ore buying sta- which food and all necessities had facilities, but construction of a be freighted in wagons over new school building is underway. tion is operating at Moab to se- to to Bluff. These pioneers becure a large, stockpile for the new trails their According to results of the surCOPPER TUNGSTEN URANIUM farming operations by vey, rents have increased as much mill. Fifteen miles east of Hite is gan 300 acres of croplands as 100 cultivating a buying station for the White Can- near the San Juan River. per cent and over and there is insufficient available yon area. In 1950, which are the latest to accommodatehousing new residents. AEC buying stations also are 6 were there available, figures There is probably twice as much operating at Monticello and acres of land under cultivabeing spent now as in 1950, ville, Utah, Shiprock, New Mexico, tion, only 9.3 per cent of the coun- money and many new jobs have been and Edgemont, South Dakota. AcWheat land area. occupies created in the area. Jobs for tys commodations at the Edgemont more 100,000 acres, while miners, drillers truck drivers, lastation have been enlarged to there isthan an estimated total of 10,000 borers, prospectors and others conhandle a big share of railroad acres of bean land. There were nected with the- mining industry from Wyoming. shipments acres of irrigated farms in 1950, have gone begging. A large numbut the rest are dry farms. ber of workers were imported into MINING and EXPLORATION On Highway 47 south of Monti-cellThe approximate value of all Green River to fill jobs requiring is Monument Valley State skills. 1950 in was sold specific farm products, Park, in which is located the New- busiSaid one' resident, $3,325,000. The number of cattle Mitten," a pair of mitten- and in 1950 total- nesses and expanding of existing OFFICES shaped rocks reaching high into led calves reported 18,775 head, while there were business firms seems to be going the sky. Here also is the Totem on normal at little better a than of lambs. head and n sheep Pole, another monolith, 67,690 All livestock and' livestock pro- rate. Socially, the expansion seems casting its shadow in the evening ducts to be going at a slower pace than sold brought in $2,090,259. sun for more than 30 miles. Some-loca- l The Monument Valley is on the There were 353 farm homes' in the economic expansion." POST OFFICE BOX 2053 believe this unbalNavajo reservation, lending added San Juan county in 1950. Of the ance residents cause be the could eventually 353 homes, 93 had telephone servInterest to the locality. of but Im sure- we can WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS ice; 147 had electric power (in takedifficulty, care of it before it happens." 1954 REA extended power lines so that now approximately 175 farm PHONE homes have electricity.); 127 had electric washing machines; 172 had re283 farms BIGLOW HOTEL grain combines; POST OFFICE BOX E ported having 348 trucks; 256 farms reported having 400 trac- In U.S. Made By tors; 198 farms were on improved GREEN RIVER, UTAH Phone 2991 roads; 239 farms hired farm labor, and their combined payrolls totalBoy led $612,147.00. PHONE 2281 Utah Green River However, it is- the uranium, oQ, The man who gets the credit for and gas interests that is burgeon- the first uranium discovery on the ing the population and producing Colorado Plateau is J. L. Wade, the intensive industrial activity. now living at Long Beach, Calif. He made his find in October, 1888, at the mouth of Disappointment creek in Colorado. Later he found more uranium deposits in Paradox Valley and in the Four Corners area, where Colorado, TRIPLE D URANIUM CORPORATION Utah, New Mexico and Arizona come together. Wade was 13 years old in 1888 when he and his grandfather went MINING AND EXPLORATION on a hunting trip. At the mouth of Disappointment Creek, where it empties into the Dolores River, he found a piece of queer appearing greenish ore. He thought it was some strange kind of copper and gave it to his father at home, John James Wade, a mining man at BLUE Mancos, Colo. The elder Wade couldnt indentify the metal and sent it to an assayer in Denver who, in turn, sent it to Louis Giroux, famous geologist in the Bishop district. Two other French scientists, Polot and Wallacky, had known the ore in Austria where it was known as uranite. OFFICES The Frenchmen and Giroux Dayton Goodyear Atlas Tires found other deposits in the Para703 Liberty National Blag. dox country in Colorado and named it Carnotite, for Carnot, who Accessories Electrical Appliances Oklahoma City, Oklahoma then was president of France. At about this same time the Phone - CEntral Standard Chemical Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa., started extracting salts from uranium ore and, in the 1890s E Box Office Post Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Johns Hopkins began using radium salts Three New Ore Plants Planned Farms Produce Million Worth HATTS MOBILE SERVICE g s, Cato 467,-32- 9,-7- p o - well-know- n well-know- Uranium Discovery While Hunting - Complete Truck Service HALS SERVICE OWNERS and OPERATORS of CHEVRON YELLOW QUEEN, GOOSE, and OTHER PROPERTIES Green River, Utah Phone 2231 GAS STATION in treatment of more true. t Phone 2401 cancer. But it took World War n to bring the uranium industry to the forefront as a killer and not as a healer. Now the reverse is once . . . 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