Laserfiche WebLink
Fairplay — Destiny Placer Mine EA - Socioeconomic and Environmental Justice Report <br />employment in Fairplay CCD. Mining was the second smallest sector containing 90 jobs <br />and one percent of total employment in the CCD (US Department of Commerce 2000). <br />There are three major sources of personal income: (1) labor earnings or income from the <br />workplace, (2) investment income, or income received by individuals in the form of rent, <br />dividends, or interest earnings, and (3) transfer payment income or income received as <br />Social Security, retirement and disability income or Medicare and Medicaid payments. In <br />2006 labor earnings were the largest sources of income accounting for 79 percent of all <br />income within Park County. Non -labor sources of income, such as (2) investment <br />income and (3) transfer payments, accounted for 12 and 9 percent, respectively (US <br />Department of Commerce, 2006b). Similar to employment, the Manufacturing, <br />Professional - scientific & technical services and Construction sectors were the largest <br />sources of labor income in 2008 within Park County (Table 1) (IMPLAN 2008). <br />Utilizing the same criterion used above to examine employment specialization, the three <br />industries demonstrating the highest degree of income specialization are Government, <br />Professional, scientific and technical services and the Manufacturing sectors (Figure 5). <br />Mining <br />Faiplay was founded in 1859 as a gold mining settlement during the early days of the <br />Pike's Peak Gold Rush (Kaelin 1999). After gold was discovered in South Park, the area <br />was flooded with claims, mining camps and small towns. The town of Fairplay owes its <br />name to a group of gold prospectors who were driven to the area by miners who had <br />staked every claim in the Tarryall region. They organized the next strike in a more <br />egalitarian manner and aptly named it "Fair Play" where all prospectors would have an <br />equal chance to stake their claims (Carr 1941 and Kaelin 1999). The Fairplay mining <br />camp prospered, but soon the prospectors' stakes gave way to larger placer and hard -rock <br />mining operations, which flourished for the next thirty years. Other businesses moved in <br />to provide goods and services to the South Park area to the west (Dallas, 1988). Later, <br />hydraulic and dredge mining was introduced and these communities prospered again <br />(Carr 1941). <br />6 <br />