tamrock
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- Jan 16, 2013
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Took this as I was going through the sleepy town of Naturita, Colorado. Over the years I got to be involved in two upswings in the price of uranium, as there are many uranium mines all over this region. Seems some folks hold out for the next time the prices go up for years. These old timers around here hold claims that pay them enough to weather many years through the down times. You just don't go off spending it all on new trucks, boats and all that other stuff a fella thinks he needs during those slow times or really ever if what you got still works. One uranium company I was dealing with when the price was up was leasing claims from this one old fella I've come to know over the years and the fella with the mining company in charge of all expenditure of the several uranium mines they were leasing from this fella told me, I'm not going to tell you what we pay that guy each month to mine his claims, but the checks we write him would blow your mind, because it's a lot of money we give him to mines his claims he's held on for the last 40 + years. Could be this old guy in front of me in this little one horse town is a millionaire??. He just doesn't think he needs a new truck anytime soon. When did they stop making Studebaker pickups