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Show -,- .jfw,. ..; aMBLi iWwitiSwWi T 7f - a iBwSiwS 0 Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. f, rtyso(.iflijON Uintah Basin n - I ,i,r S c I ,jl, I Y 1 (1) 'IPHfi 1 12IP 500 Get lost! fc s' Tuesday Raccoons will not be the only creatures found in local cornfields this fall thanks to Bluebell dairy farmer Mark Monsen and his family, who have cultivated a giant com maze on their farm. 0 Seepage Roosevelt, Utah 88, Number 37 www.ubstandard.com Vol. 13 LOCATION AND VOLUME TO BLAME ", Firefighting funding Duchesne County has been awarded $86,400 in Assistance To Firefighter grants from the federal government to purchase new fire fighting equipment ?' September 11, 2001 Seepage 10 AA wX Gasoline retailers explain high prices By Tlierena Morrill Perhaps the most significant reason that Gasoline retailers in the Uintah Basin have been receivingsome negative public sentiment lately due to gasoline is higher in Gone too soon comas Basin in the prices higher gat the Uintah Basin is due pared to the Wasatch Front. Roosevelt Telling Kandies story is Anretailers in particular have been to a hypermarket." . not easy for Angie Perank, gered by some consumers as being determined that has she yet . guilty of price flxingand price gauging people should knowthe facts because pump prices for gasoline rank SaltLakeCity.abusygasstationsella about the disease that among the highest in the state, and about 300,000 gallons of gasoline a robbed her of her mother. are generally about five cents per gal- month, In Roosevelt, a merchant is higher in Roosevelt than in lucky sell 100,000 gallons of gas Seepages lon DuchesneandVernal. during that same time. However, both These accusations are unfounded, merchants have about the same overaccording to one gas station owner head, therefore, the Roosevelt merwho requested to remain anonymous. chant has to have a bigger profit marIn order to understand what is taking gin on each gallon sold in order to stgy Victorious football place locally with gas prices, he said in business. Tedrow said that perhaps the most that you have to understand the pesquads troleum industry is different from significant reason that gasoline is Union pounds the Scots THESE PRICES ARE TO HIGH! other industries. The (act that price cheaper on the Wasatch Front than in Kenny Hudson of Roosevelt says that he thinks the prices consumers pay for and Attamont goes 3-- 0 by signs are posted in front of every gas the Uintah Basin is due to a phenomgasoline in the Basin are too high. He goes to Salt Lake City once a week and always fills his car up while he's there. station makes it a very competitive enon called "hypermarket." Tedrow edging Enterprise 15 - 12. Clint Stevenson hits game market, but no intentional price fix- said that gas prices are artificially low is taking place. LACK OF STRATEGIC PARTNERS for ing right now on the Wasatch Front and field the winning goal The petroleum retail industry is dont really reflect the value of gas. Longhorns. As of Sept. 6, the rack price for an extremely competitive market, acSeepage 16 cording to Gerry Tedrow, executive gasoline was $1.42 per gallon. At the director of Western Petroleum same time, many retailers were sellMarketers Association. The whole- ing it at cost or below cost, using their r, sale or rack price" that retailers pay fuel sales as a meaning for gasoline generally varies from supthat they were enticing customers plier to supplier, but not much. For with low gas prices while making up the most part, retailers are on equal their losses with increased sales of footing. But it gets complicated from other products, such ss groceries. An example of selling gasoline as a there, as factors such as location, volis seen in the large grocery to supply the plant failed due in part By Lezlee E. Whiting ume, and rebates enter the picture. A lack of investors to this independent nature of local sell outside now station to store local chains the that gas gas Affording Three months after announcing farmers and ranchers, and the expense owners we spoke with, the Uintah their stores, 6aid Tedrow. They offer coupled with too few Basin experiences an automatic five promotions that discount gas based they would apply for a permit for they would incur by changing out farmers and ranchers ethanol wateringsys terns to handle com rather cent per gallon freight expense on on how many dollars worth of grocer- - construction of a fuel-grathan alfalfa. every gallon of gasoline that is sold ies the consumer buys. These chain plant in Roosevelt, a group of inveswilling to grow com, Efforts to find enough local cattle tors has determined that a lack oflocal here. Retailers have no choice but to stores are forcing other jgasoline rein will the for their interested to to services venture tailers lower on consumer to the their this buying producers stay support prices expense pass and not enough cattle dried distillers at the pump. But this only partially competitive. According to Tedrow, on make it financially unfeasible. The ethanol to consume by-- H account for high gas prices, in the Sept. 6, more than 60 percent of gaso lb (Jintah Basin Ethanol Corporation- grain solubles (DOGS) ahigh pro e tein food for cattle also resulted in line retailers in Salt Lake City were was studying the possibility of Uintah Basin, he said. products, foil plans. abandoned Pennzoil refinery disappointment, he said. While feed An additional factor that affects selling gas for below cost. were lot operators and others To further complicate the picture, for use as an ethanol plant. willing gas prices is volume. According to of to purchase the feed, the numbers ethanol produced at the plant to about .J. Michael Redd, Tedrow, ina large market area such as Tedrow said that the large chain pefive million ayear and even at that we troleum retailers, in order to be able Uintah Basin Ethanol Corp., said ef- were not there. "We discovered we would have to still would make enough animal feed forts to find "strategic partners willSEE GAS RETAILERS on page 3 ing to form a cooperative to grow corn downsize from 20 million gallons of for about 15,000 head of cattle, "Redd explained. There was also a problem finding MARKET UTE TRIBE CAPITALIZING ON FLOURISHING investors willing to sign up for the capital intensive project, knowing they would have to wait up to ten years for a return on their money in the cyclical energy market. Ethanol use is on the rise as an additive in motor fuel because it is more environmentally friendly. The bio-fuhelps add the needed oxygen to make fuel burn cleaner. In the case of the Roosevelt refinery, ethanol By Lezlee E. Whiting would have been produced by fer12 liave The menting field corn second quality employees plant's The Ute Indian Tribe has found a Producing an average the past two months learning corn which is typically not used for spent niche in one of the fastest growing of 15,000 bottles of what it takes to make sure their water humun consumption. beverage markets in the world: Uintah Basin Ethanol Corp. was process runs smoothly, cx- bottled water. Growing faster than water daily underthree bottling production formed late last year to take advanJohn manager wasoft drink and beer sales, bottled glained tage of the growing demand for ethater is becomings significant portion of distinctly Indian labels. what we are nol, after the release of a study conbut surely, "Slowly, the beverage business. Its projected cated at the base of the d doingnow isprovingtoourselves that ducted for Roosevelt, which evaluthat the sales of bottled water will Uinta Mountains traditional we can produce, he said pointing to ated the economic and technical opthe grow by 20 percent ayear over the next homeland of the Ute Indian stockpiled cases of bottled water just portunities of converting the oid Tribe, five years, according to industry rethe label reads. "For centuries, the SEE ETHANOL on page 3 SEE WATER PLANT on page 3 ports. The tribes newest enterprise, Ute Ute People have shared the water of and mountain this pure many spring Whiterocks Water Bottling went onSS OR YOU DON'T of them have heard and passed on the line in June, and is now producingan its of natural taste, legends purity, average of 15,000 bottles of water and healthful, natural qualities. daily under three distinctly "Indian TheNu-paWhite Rocks and Cryslabels" at their newly opened plant in tal ofwater are stocked in Blue bottles Whiterocks. Each label touts the fact Uintah Basin grocery and convePACKAGED TO GO John Gamiochipi, Production manager at Ute that the water comes from natural most Fleming Food recently Indian spring water captured at the nience stores. Whiterocks Water Bottling stands beside cases of bottled water ready to to them into Wasatch agreed bring source in the Uinta Mountains. be shipped to stores. The tribe has exclusive rights to a "diamond water Front stores and Harmons has agreed "The of natural water spring bottle designed in Japan specially for their labels. In addition to the markets Whiterocks Indian Springs flows from to sell the product. Talks are also they are currently serving, Gamiochipi said the tribe will also court the casino a pristine deep mountain source lo-- underway with Associated Foods, said Marc Puries, ofMarketWorks.theSalt business on reservations. Lake consulting firm retained by the ? tribe to market their product. The tribe is also courting foreign markets, where their bottled water is By Thercna Morrill !l' Students who don't pass expected to find quick acceptance because of the attraction Europeans Accountability has become a cor: the test will not receive a and Asians have for anything Native ner stone of effective educational resaid Puries. American, form, according to a bulletin pubi ' i Ti high school diploma. i "Domestically, it (the appeal) is lished by the Utah State Board of , ym j' ..JV vt i if j cause I ndian an it from comes related, Education. In an effort to enhance tribe in an area of the state that is accountability, a new performance ing, and inulh test in order to receive "v economically challenged ... here is a assessment system for students has n basic high school diploma. product now coming from the Utcs been mandated by state law and is The Utah Basic Skills Competency that is intended to create employ- being implemented statewide. Test, which is a four- - to r test, ment for the tribe, its price is comwill he administered in the spring of Assessment Performance (Utah i scpetitive and it's a great product, the students' sophomore year. StuSystem for Students) a four-pa"iPuries said explainingt liat businesses ries of test assessments, becomes ef- dent s will t hen have an opport unity to have "all been verysymputhetictothe fective this year in all public schools. uny of t he three port ions of t he cause of an Indian tribe working to The four tests in the test twice during each of their junior proimprove the lives of their members gram each liave different purposes year and senior years in an effort to through economic development. and provide different information pass. I ft hey fail to pass any of the t hree "In Europe and Asia people go about student performance throughsections of the test by the time of bonkers over anything that is Indian out the state. also includes graduation, they will not receive a and so we have a real cachet for them; ot her school level data that helps high school diploma. I nst end t hey will its the magical, mystical thing. And the effectiveness of the receive a certificate of completion. here is a water that is truly Indiun. schools. Jack Bell, assistant administrator The tribe already has a foot hold in 1 Loral educators agree the most sigCi and director of testing for the 4, a dependable market closer to home nificant aspect of Duchesne Con nty School District, exis the I'tuh with a huge potential for sales of Basic Skills Competency Test. This plained that considerations for spebottled water to the federal governtest will he administered to students cial education students and students ment, because of their preferred who are sophomores this year as a who have other sxcial needs will be i status asaminority-ownebusiness. pilot lest. Then, beginning with the devised in the near future. While the UP AND RUNNING Ute Whiterocks Water Bottling Raymond Murray (foreground) operations officer for Ute Contract talks will begin soon for 1 hat legislature is in place that mandates graduating class of 2005, all sophoTribe Enterprises and Ben Watts, head of maintenance at the tribes Whiterocks water bottling plant discuss markelduringmcetings scheduled to mores will he required to pass each take place in California, said Puries. section oft he three part reading, wnt- SEE TESTING on page 3 operations on the production line. The plant was built with money from the tribe's Water Settlement funds. ?. Company abandons plans for "loss-leade- ethanol plant in Roosevelt loss-lead- er refit-tingth- A Human b natural resources at work at water bottling plant - snow-cappe- U-PA- iaioaia Mandatory testing determines teens' graduation eligibility h, ;?' if ' six-hou- rt e V ssg A"- 8-- a d It COPY rsw wsi - r cs '55 ylia |