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Show MARS POPE #1 PAGE 46 tax base a lot. There's w.here our b.ig increase comes from, t hose things. And the missle base over here at Green River, you see , on this side of Green River in Grand County, and that's where the missile base is, and so we get quite a bit of tax from those people too. Now if we'd lose those industries, we'd lose a good lot of our tax b.ase. In fact, the ,·.state. taxes on mines, power lines, telephone lines, and gas lines, and everything else, that's all taxed b.y the state. And I think they're evaluation is about 8 million out of our 22~is that type of taxable property. So it's when those kinds of things folded up that we'd be hurt. SG: What kind of problems were caused by housing back in the influx? MP: Oh, just like I was. saying, anybody would just beg for any kind of place, a room, or a place to put a trailer, or anything. There just wasn't housing. People camped out all along the river down here. They camped out in tents, anything they could get anyplace. The hous.ing developed fast, but they still couldn't get enough housing. SG: What kinds of problems still remain from this? You mentioned the trailers. What kind of problems do you have now? Is it just a proble.m of aesthetics., you know_-, the sight--does it look good or what? MP: I don't think we really have any prob.lems now. I think they're |
