Student commentary from Eureka County’s seventh and eighth grade students.
The friendliest town on the loneliest road in America... or so they say. In the next few years, McEwen Mines is expanding, bringing hundreds of new miners into the area. McEwen Mines have purchased several properties to create man camps for incoming workers. Based on this, Eureka’s pollution, traffic, and crime rates will begin rising by the minute. Various complaints from families have been made about their safety in their own homes. People claim that our safe town is being destroyed by multiple strangers coming in directly near them. Many don’t understand why the mines are choosing money over safety. What is our town becoming? Perhaps could the friendliest town become the complete opposite?
