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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />found outside money, and has brought in core drillers and whatnot. I <br />talked to the superintendent of Rico Argentine Mining Cqmpany Saturday, <br />and he was quite enthusiastic that their findings have been such that <br />they would need to build a new mi1~ and start processing th~ ore: <br />copper, gold, zinc, silver. <br /> <br />Also we are beginning to have a recreation impact, due to the develop- <br />ment of Telluride, which is not much over t't\'Elnty-five miles from the <br />town of Ri,co. The thing that is holding back much development is that, <br />most of our water lines freeze up in the winter. And large sections of <br />the town - II).ost of the summer people come in from Arizona,. T~xas, am~ <br />southern areas for summer residency - and those lines all freeze in the <br />winter, so if they tried to have year-round occupancy, they would be <br />pretty much,up against it. <br /> <br />Our big problem is, of course, our system is old and'it doesn't compiy <br />with very few, if any, health regulations. But with a se~t1ing pond to <br />settle the water after it comes out of the stream and larger storage <br />capacity, plus filtration and ch1orinization that's now req~ired, and <br />the placing of the.water lines down to a depth that the frost,won't get <br />to them, which needs to be about six and a half feet. We're at 8,800 <br />feet elevation and the frost gets down four or five or six feet, a~d <br />once your mains freeze in the winter, we have had no success in thawing <br />them out. We have been able to thaw out fe~der lines with welders and <br />whatnot. But when your main line freezes, what happens is that every- <br />body in town run~ taps, and we have bypasses, which has a ~endency to <br />drain our storage tank. And then that comp1icat~s the problem because <br />we quit running water in the lines and then it makes the freezing prob- <br />lem even worse. <br /> <br />That's about what the situation is. And the prospects ar~ that I be+ieve <br />that the town will probably double in size within the next five years, <br />because the mining company, now that an oil company has purchased it -- <br />they either plan to make money in the mining operation or in land <br />development, which they have some vel;"y excellent recreation land in the <br />area. But so far they just sit on everything, and that probably has <br />been the reason the town has went down hill. <br /> <br />But whether th~y go into .mining operations or land development, eit~r <br />way, I think that we're go~ng to b~ in for a population increase. <br />Thank you. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: Thank you, Mr. Curran. <br /> <br />Do you have any'questions? <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER: I'wou1d like to ask the gentleman one question. You were <br />having some problems with right-of-way with the mining company. Have <br />you got that worked out? <br /> <br />MR. CURRAN: They have tentatively agreed. We haven't presented them <br />an agreement, but we're going to furnish them a.certain amount of <br />industrial ,water over a ten-year period, free of charge, for easements <br />and right-of-ways. They tentatively agreed to: that so t~t we would <br /> <br />-25- <br />