Unemployment rate is approx.
About 250,000 tourists visit Rifle each year. Stillwater Ranch will add 2,000 residential units on 1,200 acres in the Silt area. Home users representing 230 PCs and 129 phone lines responded. It is ironic that we have the US West fiber optic connection to the West Coast and a microwave tower which forwards this complex communications network to points east. The obvious problem with telecom extension to rural areas is that funding is very scarce at the local level.