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Bank Of America Investment A draft report on a road proposed through Utah's Sevier Canyon would shorten the trip for coal trucks but would impact thousand-year-old rock art in a canyon considered sacred by Northern Ute and Navajo tribes.

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Investment Opportunity For more than a thousand years, spectral figures with large hollow eyes -- drawn on rock panels by prehistoric people -- have gazed out over Quitchupah Canyon in Sevier County.

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Banc Of America Investment The figures, considered sacred by the Paiute tribe, represent one of four different styles of primitive rock art that could be threatened by a county proposal to build a road through the canyon to benefit the largest producing coal mine in Utah.

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Banking Investment A draft environmental impact statement on the proposed two-lane, 9.5-mile road has been released by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. It looks at three alternative routes from the Southern Utah Fuel Co. mine northeast of Salina to state Route 10 south of Emery. The project would reduce by 50 miles the 178-mile round trip now taken by trucks hauling coal from the mine to a power generating station near Castle Dale in Emery County. The current route is from the mine to Interstate 70, east to state Route 10, then north to Castle Dale. A shorter route would reduce the mine's transportation costs.

- - as opposed to local roads. In Middlesex County, for example, 14 of the 23 fatalities last year happened on highways.

Investment Solution Strategic The document indicates historic and prehistoric cultural sites would be directly impacted if either of two of the proposed routes that follow Quitchupah Creek are built, and indirectly impacted by increased public visitation to the area as a result of improved accessibility.

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Investment Banking Services The proposal is opposed by the Paiute tribe of Utah, which says the canyon has historically been used for sacred ceremonies in addition to containing the art work of early people living in the area.

Bank Investment The Northern Ute tribe, in Duchesne County, and the Navajo Nation, which extends into southeastern Utah from Arizona, both oppose construction of the road in Quitchupah, as does the Arizona-based Hopi tribe. The tribes say the road would threaten painted pictographs and chiseled petroglyphs that grace the canyon walls.

Alternative Investment Sevier County Commissioner Ralph Okerlund, says the draft of the environmental document favors no alternative and is flexible enough that a compromise can satisfy all involved.

Online Investment Services One alternative, down North Water Hollow, avoids most of Quitchupah Canyon and the rock art sites. Okerlund says the county could support the proposal.

Accompany Essential Investment The estimated price of building either Quitchupah alternative is around $6.5 million, compared to $25 million for the Water Hollow route, whose steep grades present expensive engineering challenges.

Investment Company Okerlund says the mine approached the county in 1999 with the road proposal, and the county is doing all it can to accommodate the request because the coal mine and trucks represent about 30 percent of Sevier County's tax base.

Investment Management Solution Bonds and a combination of loans and grants from the Community Impact Board will fund the road. They would be paid back with a toll charged the trucks.

Investment Management Services Deck Slone, a spokesman for Arch Coal Inc., in St. Louis, Mo., which owns a 65 percent interest in the company that owns the mine, says, "An investment in the road is an investment in the future."

Guide Investment Stock Southern Utah Fuel ships 1.2 million tons a year to the Hunter Power Plant at Castle Dale and more than 6 million tons to other markets in the West.

Investment Manual Solution Slone says the company could easily support the Water Hollow alternative.

Investment Stock Many familiar with the importance of the rock in Quitchupah Canyon say a road would be devastating to the archaeological treasure.

Essential Investment Solution Salt Lake City rock art expert Davis Sucec says the canyon contains one of the most multicultural sites of rock art in Utah.

Citicorp Investment Services Richfield Bureau of Land Management archaeologist Craig Harmon, who worked on the 1995 survey used in the environmental impact statement, says the study identified 11 cultural resource sites in the canyon and nine were found significant enough for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.

Fool Guide Investment Motley By Layne Miller
Salt Lake Tribune - 12/31/2001

Topic: Mining

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