{"id":106208,"date":"2016-03-16T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/40-years-ago-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T20:43:09","slug":"40-years-ago-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/40-years-ago-2\/","title":{"rendered":"40 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Mining jobs lost<\/div>\n<p>Idarado Mining Co, will reduce employment by about 1\/3 over the next 4 to 6 weeks, it was announced. The company is reducing production due to a continuing depressed demand and prices for metals, particularly lead, zinc, and copper. Total employment will be reduced from 375 to approximately 250 by the first of April.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Town fears dam<\/div>\n<p>About 700 people gathered in Placerville on March 8 for a meeting sponsored by the San Miguel Water Conservancy board and other officials. The key concern of local citizens was the question of the possibility of the town being put under water by the San Miguel Project. Some of the original plans for the dam that would provide the necessary water for the project would flood the town. One ironic fact of the project is that the people of Placerville do not fall in the boundaries of the conservancy district so would not have a vote on the final resolution of the project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Uranium mining spikes<\/div>\n<p>Monticello county recorder stated that the county \u201chas had the biggest winter activity in uranium exploration they\u2019ve ever had in history,\u201d and notes that one major company recorded 1,800 20-acre locations in a single day last year. County commissioner Calvin Black said the boom of the 50\u2019s was mostly prospectors, small operators and promoters. This time mining companies are acquiring the prospectors\u2019 claims by lease and purchase and are doing the work with as little fanfare and publicity as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Dolores Star, Friday, March 19, 1976<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[44],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-106208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-dolores"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106208"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=106208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}