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Show Mine workers could strike next week by Bruce Jennings Around 200 miners who live in Sanpete County including 10 who live in Ephraim and three in Manti ing to county officials. The 200 miners work at Emery Mining Corp.s Deer Creek mine, which supplies coal to Utah Power & Lights plants. And theyre now extension of working on a five-da- y their contract. That extension expires Friday. - could be on strike next week. And a long-tim- e seriously depress strike would the already troubled Sanpete economy, accord- - Protests filed to stop railroad abandonment prevent R&RG from abandoning the Richfield-Thistle section, which has been out of operation since the 1983 flooding. The section between Richfield and Marysvale has been closed for Sevier County, Richfield City and Intermountain Farmers Inc.s Richfield branch have filed a protest with the Interstate Commerce Commission to prevent the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad from abandoning its Richfield to Marysvale branch. several years.. Intermountain Farmers claims its Richfield Branch would be a major user of the railroad. Sue Marie Young, Richfield mayor, claims that the line is needed for possible development in the energy field in Toth Sevier and Piute counties. - This action does not pertain to the present inactivity as regards the D&RG section between Richfield and Thistle, but if the protest is successful, according to Sanpete County officials, it could help in preventing the abandonment of the line through Sanpete County. The state of Utah has promised to take legal action in an effort to If by then the United Mine Workers of America, District 22, to which the miners belong, and Emery ."Mining Corp.--, havent agreed on - contract terms, a strike seems ; almost certain. The United Mine Workers and the Bituminous Coal Operators Assn. have ' reached " agreement on a national contract. And the UMW wants Emery Mining Corp. which does not belong to the BCOA, to ' accept the terms of that contract. It provides for contributions to the Utahs recorded history may appear to be unlikely periods to study soil drought conditions. But a recent study has' been successful and productive in other ways, according to Dr. V. Philip Rasmussen, principal investigator of the soil moisture survey project. Rasmussen is an assistant professor in the Soil Science and Biomctcrology Department at Utah State University and an Extension specialist in conservation. soil-wat- " weather stations to get two years of V ground truth information. With data from this network, the project team has developed a computer model that will be able to predict soil moisture using available ' ' weather information. . ' Although the intention of the' project was to get a better idea of real amounts of water found in marginal soil moisture conditions, Rasmussen observes that information from the project shows that the last two years' . have been very wet. - d and Of 13 range-lan- d l Utah,-alsites throughout agricultural experienced an increase of at least 150 percent in soil moisture between 1982 and 1983. And some ' increased by as much as 250 percent during the period. The change between 1983-198- 4 has yet to be fully measured, but Rasmussen said the trend appears to be slightly upward again. Those wishing to learn more about this continuing study can call Rasmussen at Utah State University, dry-lan- He noted that because Utah is a semi-ari- d state, soil mositure is the most critical clement in the state's agriculture. Where there is no supplemental water available, such as irrigation, knowing the amount of water in the soil provides the best information to help determine what will grow and when it can be planted. Rasmussen said the project involves setting up a network of monitoring sites in d conjunction with re e well-equippe- - . 750-225- Bowling on a Leogue? There's Still Room! t At this writing negotations are going on . in Washington D.C. between the UMW and Emery Mining, They have a Friday deadline. s And one Ephraim miner said he hopes a settlement is reached. Td go out on strike if its called, he said. Pension funds are important to our members, but I want to work. I dont want to be idle. Ive got bills to pay- - From the Desk of The County Agent Sanpete interests have presented similar arguments in the effort to get . D&RG to rehabilitate the' line through Sanpete to Richfield.-- ' - by Tom Reeve Drought study in progress Two of the wettest years in TEiougli? About miners pension fund under the terms of a 1950 agreement. It also provides for a wage raise. Emery Mining Corp. is agreeable to the raise, but is not agreeable to making the pension contributions under the 1950 terms, claiming that these contributions would .not benefit their employees. Foot control in sheep Along with the announcement by' Steven. T. ' Gillmore, Commissioner of Agriculture, about the USDA' clearing a footrot vaccine for distribution in this area, has come another tool for the use in the control of footrot. In the past years with the increase in moisture there has been a dramatic increase in footrot among . iieep in Sanpete County. This vaccine is a tool to use in the process of treating footrot and give the grower a much better chance to eradicate it. At the same time sheepmen need to work . at the conventional methods. -- ' The extension service has learned that the vaccine should be available to the local veterinarians by the middle of October. of time. , - To eradicate footrot disease from infected herds, sheepmen should use the new vaccine and follow these steps: 1. Separate clean and infected sheep 2. Examine and trim all feet repeatedly 3. Apply topical medication . Since footrot is well established in many Sanpete flocks, this approach means a lot of work at first. However, it will be more productive than waiting for moisture levels to decrease and for an easy" cure to come along. Testing of the vaccine in other states has looked good, but it is not Tuesday Night Mens League Starts at 9:00 p.m. Every Tuesday Night . . necessarily going to eradicate footrot in this area by itself. It can be eradicated from the herd only by eliminating the bacterial agent. The footrot bacteria will survive in the soil for two weeks, but can be carried in the affected feet for longer periods Call or Volleyball was invented in a Holyoke, Mast., YMCA in 1895 by William George Morgan. 835-664- 1 835-424- 1 AskforJJoyd |