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Show Moab Scene It is even hard to get a hotel loom in Moab lor an over-nigstay. Things are that bad. There are just two many people in Moab for the accommodations available. Visitors find it is difficult to find a motel compartment, a hotel room, or even a hospital bed if they are ill. The atomic-bor- n boom took care of that. There are signs in No hotels advising: sleeping in this lobby overnight. The Moab scene is a constantly changing one. What today is a small novelty store may tomorrow be the offices of a geologist and engineer. Trailer courts replace back-yargardens overnight. Trailer parks have sprung up all over town in efforts of townspeople to make living room for the hundreds of people moving in. The older residents had to make room for new people in the community and they did, reaping a handsome profit from space rentals. e residents of Moab have a little trouble trying to live by d Old-tim- Only Mountains Ever-Changin- g, the new standards established by merchants and banks to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the confusion to further their own personal gains. For example, a woman who had lived in Moab for many years went to a bank to cash a check made out to her husband, signing it with her name and her own beneath. She was told that We cant do that anymore." It didnt matter that the woman had been doing it for several years the teller had been told to comply with the new regulations. The bank refused to honor the check and the woman went to a store to get it cashed. Once quiet streets are now busy thoroughfares as concrete trucks dash about delivering mud" to the many construction jobs in proThere are painters, carpengress. ters, bricklayers and others in the building trades, hustling to and from work, or from job to job as work progresses. stores and along its streets Is an education in itself. For seldom does one see such a heterogeneous crowd; the big city seems to have come to the small town and the comingling of peoples has worked out very well. There are men in expensively tailored suits walking with miners in hard hats and dusty overalls. Career girls in trim suits and high heels walk along with and girls in denim housewives loafers. There is jeans and low-heno class distinction in Moab, so far as can be observed. These are the people who live in the log cabins with sod roofs, the trailer houses, the tents on the edge of town, or perhaps in the latest modern and moderne homes. They are the people who are complaining about telephone service, prices at the grocery store, rents they must pay, things in general and about the hustle and bustle that has transformed Moab from the little cow town of a few short years ago into the biggest little city in eastern Utah. These are the people of Moab . . . the engineer and geologist, usually bareheaded and wearing sports shirts, unbuttoned jackets regardless of weather, denim trousers, and engineer boots . . . cowboys with faded denim outfits that wouldnt fit into the movie version of westerners . . . waitresses with their usual white uniforms . . and boys and girls with as many variations of clothing as their parents. And then there are the tourists with their cameras, snapping pictures at every turn, soon becoming shutter happy" because of all this unexpected picture material. Although everyone right now is unhappy with telephone service, Midland Telephone Co. is engaged in an expansion program that includes a new and larger dial system and several more toll lines going to Provo, Utah, instead of to Grand Junction. The Moab dial equipment now in operation will go to Dove Creek, Colo. Installation will require several months of tedious, expensive work. Until it is finished, the griping will continue but there is nothing that can be done about it. A-Ene- rgy to Join Oil Fuels in Future Atomic energy will not replace oil as a source of energy in the forseeable future, in the opinion of R. G. Follis, chairman of Stand-dar- d Oil Company of California, of uranium ore are piled near Moab awaiting transportation to processing mills. These huge piles, containing ore from Charles Steens properties and others in the rich uranium mining belt, represent many thousands of dollars to mine owners, having an average value of approximately $50 per ton. In the foreground are dumping bins which feed ore into the new sampling plant opened just after the first of the year. 126,869-TON- S San Francisco. On the contrary, says Follis, mans needs for energy from all sources will be so great that presently known forms of energy, including atomic, will be hard pressed to meet estimated demands. It seems to us, continues Follis, that even when allowing for more rapid development of atomic power than is contemplated by the best informed on this subject, the principal problem of the oil industry will be to expand its resources sufficiently to keep up with growing demand. The older, larger mining companies are showing interest in uranium mining making it stable by methods. the use of large-tonna- does the future hold for Some say it will bring growth, new industries, new schools and hospitals, prosperity, jobs for everyone. Others shrug their shoulders questioningly, fearful that greater and more serious confusion will follow any further upsurge m population and demand for workers. If one desires solitude, there is the unchanged scenic beauty of the Moab valley, the mountains in all directions. The sunsets are still as spectacular as in days. But be careful when you look toward the sunset or the mountains. Youre liable to be looking at a uranium mine. What Moab? pre-ato- Lonely Isolation Is Mesa Miner's Lot It isnt all gravy working la the uranium mines . . . theres the loneliness that goes with it. High up on Beaver Mesa, working as superihtendent of the Pack Rat Mine is William Turner, Navy veteran. He and his wife live together on the mesa, but they must send their young son to live with friends at Gateway, Colo., so he can attend school. Although it is but 17 miles from their mesa home to Gateway, there is a drop of some 2,000 feet in altitude in that district and the trails are precipitous and dangerous. They try to make the trip every week, but there are cloudbursts in summer and fall and sr.ow in the winter that often prevent them from making the trip. Turner said he and his wife have been marooned on mountain sides for as long as four days because of storms. They have but few visitors, and when they do come it usually is a business visit. There are men working at the mine, but when they get a chance they take out like a cyclone," says Turner. Because of the remoteness of their location and lack of what people living in towns and cities consider commonplace services, the Turners hunger for reading material, company, and bright lights. Miners come up here to try this kind of work," he comments, but they miss the sidewalks and soon leave. FOR ADVANCEMENT AND STABILITY IN THE URANIUM INDUSTRY UTIDA URANIUM INC. Jack C. Turner President and General Manager Same |
