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• <br />Western Slope has a labor pool of 243 applicants from which to draw 31 new <br />hires. Thus, Hawk's Nest has the option of hiring from the local area and <br />need not, given proper skill mixes, create any in-migration to either <br />Delta or Gunnison Counties. However, as indicated in Chapter Ii, should <br />Western Slope hire from the indigenous available population, then their <br />replacements would probably need to come from in-migration. <br />Interestingly, when the occupation-specific needs of WSCC were analyzed <br />the new hires would tend to be more in place than the origin model would <br />indicate. As Tabel III-3 depicts, when the likely occupation-specific <br />slots are compared to the existing workforce by occupation (lead item of <br />survey instrument) cross-tabulated by origin, then only seven in-migrants <br />will occur. <br />Table III-3: New Hires by Occupation <br /> <br />• <br />Occupation Not Move Shift Colo-in Out-of-State in Total <br />Miner Operator (4) 3 1 4 <br />Bolters (6) 3 1 2 6 <br />Shuttle Car (6) 3 1 6 <br />Utility (6) 3 2 1 6 <br />Mech/Maintenance (B) 3 1 3 1 8 <br />Greasers (2) 2 2 <br />Beltman (1) _ 1 _ _ 1 <br />TOTAL 17 7 6 1 31 <br />Source: JS6A Survey; Western Slope Carbon's UMWA Manpower Table, West Mine, <br />October 3, 1980. <br />For purposes of analyzing subsequent population impacts, the results are <br />the same, whether WSCC hires from the indigenous workforce which then <br />creates in-migration in n ripple effect, or whether it hires from outside <br />the area. <br />39 <br />