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Show Energy growth in area The energy industry coal, uranium, oil and gas has generated significant changes since 1970 in San Juan County and the other three counties making up the Southeastern District of Utah, as reported by the Utah Department of Employment Security. Other counties in the district are Carbon, Emery and Grand. Carbon County has experienced rapid growth because of the coal and trade industry Rapidly indevelopments. creasing conditions have occurred in Emery County because of power plant construction and coal mining. Though less publicized, both San Juan and Grand Counties have been, growing at above average rates because of developments in the uranium, and oil and gas mining in- dustries. Not only is the district's population nearly 1.5 times greater than in 1970, but the number of nonagricultural jobs is 1.8 times larger, and the industrial job mix is notably different. In 1978 A long-de- ad in this Saon Jyami Rsoord HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY. UTAH Vol. 62, No. 27 The San Juan County families will be hosts during the coming month to Japanese exchange youths representing about 100 young people from the Labo educational center in JaSix pan. The San Juan County hosts Ed Carlson the include and Clisbee Lyman families of and the Cooper B landing, Jones, Tom Livingston, Stephen Nielson and Brent K. Redd families of Monticello. ,, their 4-H- 'ers cents winged way to Japan for a month- stay, their Japanese counterparts were arriving in long annual Blue Mountain Roundup Rodeo will be held this Friday and Saturday at the county fairgrounds in Monticello. The Friday night rodeo will start at 7 p.m., and the Saturday program will start at 6 p.m. The Friday night rodeo will be followed by a dance at the fairgrounds, starting at 10 p.m. Buster Webb, of the WA Rodeos Company, Blanco, New will again bring the Mexico,rodeo performances to San Juan County this weekend, with what he describes as better and tougher rough stock, challenging top broncs, and outstanding bulls." Play Boy, the national In- - Utah. The Japanese youth were to land in Salt Lake City early this week. After a two-dorientation, they were to go with their host families from 22 counties. This is the seventh year Utah has participated in the Labo exchange. Several other wes- Mill work set ay : tern states and Canada also i ,a copy July 26, 1979 Rodeo this weekend Exchange youths here As 20 Utah 15 host the exchanges. Counties hosting Labo students are San Juan, Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Grarid, Millard, Morgan, Piute, Salt Lake, Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Tooele, Uintah, Utah, Wasatch, Wayne and Weber. This is a great opportunity for us to get acquainted with people from another culture," said Dr. Gerald Olson, Utah H supervisor. 4-- The Japanese youth will remain in Utah until August 2L Warehouse construction and grading are nearly complete at Energy Fuels south of Bland-in- g, and everything is in readiness for 'the new uranium mill to be known as the White Mesa Uranium Project. Energy Fuels is still awaiting the license for 'the mill, which is expected this month. Currently, however, hiring for construction work is underway within individual construction companies who have bids on the mill. The mill will take about a year to complete and will employ an estimated 125 workers. The mill will operate 24 hours a day, 340 days a year. dian bucking bull of the year, will be in the chutes at each performance, along with several national finals bucking horses. Webb, a popular stock producer in the western states, is well known to San Juan County fans. This year Webb has added a special feature to his production. Appearing at each performance will be Louie Thurman of Burleson, Texas, with his trick horse Princess, and his stubborn, diminutive mule. Ginger. Thurman, a veteran of the rodeo circuit, does all of his own training and usually has, in addition to the performing animals, several others in the training pen. He has spent many years training animals to perform for the nation's rodeo circuits. Princess and Ginger are seasoned show animals and have performed at many rodeos across the nation. In 1976, Ginger, the mule, walked 56 feet on her hind legs to break the former world's record of 49 feet. Princess, the paint mare, is eight years old and comes from bucking stock. She is 54 inches tall and jumps through of fire at hoop while mounted. She overcame 54-in- ch her fear of fire through trust in her trainer. Thirty-fiv- e years on the rodeo circuit first saw Thurman as a contestant riding the rough stock and then as a rodeo clown. Although Louie gave up the perils of fighting bulls to the younger men, he did not hang up his baggy pants and funny face. More jobs Total employment in the Southeastern District of Utah, including San Juan, Carbon, Emery and Grand Counties, rose 8.8 per cent in March of this year, as compared to March of 1978. Unemployment during the same period declined 10.2 per cent. With employment rising and unemployment dropping, rate in the unemployment the district fell more than a percentage point from 6.4 per cent in March 1978 to 5.3 per cent in March of this year, according to the Utah Department of Employment Security. employNonagricultural - ment in the district was 22.6 per cent higher this March than last. This abnormally high rate of job growth was partially caused by a coal workers strike in the district during March, 1978. There were 2.200 striking miners during the month not included in the mining jOb count. This inflated both the mining and nonagricultural year - over job growth rates. Adding the strikers back into the mining industry during March of 1978 proceeds a more realistic year - over gain in employment of 6.9 per cent in and a gain of mining job 7.3 per cent in nonagricultural employment for March of this year compared to March of 1978. Mining, energy and con- struction developments are leading the way for future employment growth in this dis- trict, 17,825 in the pinyon pine shares the stage with a massive sandstone formation Photo by Alvin Reiner rugged San Juan landscape TCn there were the department said. Three major uranium mine de- velopments should be coming in the district. up- nonagricultural jobs Southeastern District, a number 1.8 times greater (8,031) than the 9,794 that existed in 1970. More than 52 per cent of these new jobs were in the mining and construction industries, with mining adding 2.428 or 30 per cent, and construction adding 1,762 or 22 per cent of the total new jobs. Of the new mining jobs or 59 per cent were 1,422 in coal mining; 645 or 27 per cent were in uranium mining, and 401 or 16 per cent were in oil and gas mining activities. Other mining activities actually lost 40 (2 per cent) jobs from 1970 to 1978. Almost all (99.8 per cent) of the new coal mining jobs occurred in Carbon and Emery Counties, with two out of three of these being in Emery County. Emery County also claimed 81 per cent of all new construction jobs in the district due to construction of new electric power generating plants. San Juan and Grand Counties experienced 89 per cent of the gain in jobs in the uranium, and oil and gas mining industries. The construction and mining industries have significantly increased their share of the district's nonagricultural jobs between 1970 and 1978. In 1970 the construction industry accounted for only 5.6 per cent of total jobs, but by 1978 they were 12.9 per cent of the total. Jobs in mining increased their share of the total from 23 to 26 per cent; with coal mining gaining from 14 to 16 per cent; uranium from 3.0 to 5.5 per cent; and oil and gas from 2.0 to 3.5 per cent of the total jobs in the district. The other major indus- try sectors, trade, services, manufacturing, transportatand communications and public utilities, finance, insurance and real estate have all shared in the increased numbers of jobs, but at substantially lower rates ion, of increase and smaller numbers of actual new jobs than occurred in the construction or mining industries. (Please turn to Page 2) |