On Monday afternoon with a few short strokes of a pen, Mike Roberts signed documents to help finance a bio-fuels operations that he and his partners plant to build in Wellington. The money that was passed that day came from a five decade old dream that was started to help bring business to Carbon County, Pro-Carbon.

Over the past two decades Pro-Carbon has not been very active in the area, although in the last two years, pretty quietly the organization helped Intermark Steel in south Price start up their operation. That business now has contracts and is employing between 10 and 20 people and growth for the firm continues to be on the horizon.

Because of the quiet disposition Pro-Carbon has posed on itself in the last 25 years few people even remember it, if they ever heard of it at all. It was started in the late 1960s and its first big project was to build the building that only a short time later housed Koret of California, a clothing manufacturing company. That business hung around and provided jobs for Carbonites for about 20 years before the toll of foreign clothing companies driving American manufacturers out of business closed the local operation. Today that building still stands and Pro-Carbon still owns it.

It’s present tenant is an industrial tire company, which has been a steady and helpful employer in the area as well.The board of Pro-Carbon after deliberations over the past few weeks decided to fund part of Robert’s project. Board members Tom Paterick and Richard Tatton represented the organization at the signing as Sherrie Gordon put her public notary stamp on the documents.

The organization is owned by many individuals in the community who

have stock in it, but the stock is not stock that grows in terms of income for the individual stockholders, but instead accrues value for Pro-Carbon itself.

Pro-Carbon is a piece of community activity that is a truly a public service done by those that have invested over the years.