Box 12
Container
Contains 12 Results:
Theodore Toren, 1970
File — Box: 12, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Toren spoke with Richard Gibbs and Greg Brolin at the Atomic Energy Commission compound in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: personal background, Monticello, access road program, ore sampling, ventilation in mines (14 pages).
Dates:
1970
T. Dee Tranter, 1970
File — Box: 12, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Steve Guttman interviewed Tranter, affiliated with the radio station in Moab. Subjects: personal background, changes in Moab, tourism, future of Moab, radio station, drug problems, police, politics, editorials, trailer courts, advertising (35 pages).
Dates:
1970
William R. Walker and Eugene M. Cramer, 1970
File — Box: 12, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Kathleen Biel interviewed Walker (manager of public information) and Cramer (engineer) at the offices of Advanced Energy Systems in Los Angeles, California. Subjects: nuclear power, construction of the San Onofre plant, fuels, public attitudes, AEC, breeder reactors, radioactive waste (36 pages).
Dates:
1970
Arvilla Warren, 1970
File — Box: 12, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Dorothy Erick spoke with county recorder Arvilla Warren in Monticello, Utah. Subjects: personal background, importance of Steen's strike, uranium boom and California gold rush, requirements on mining claims, recorder's book, names of claims, patenting a claim, oil discovery at Anna and Big Indian, claim taxes and San Juan county, Charlie Steen, national press on uranium boom (34 pages).
Dates:
1970
Lark Washburn, 1970
File — Box: 12, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Clare Engle interviewed Washburn, a contractor for Union Carbide, in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: mining in the 1940s, ventilation, staking claims with DeVar Shumway, Union Carbide, the company town of Uravan, church, school, minorities, AEC allocations, a lawsuit, mines in Wyoming and New Mexico, problems in assaying (48 pages).
Dates:
1970
Ford and Ida M. Weber, 1971
File — Box: 12, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
The Webers spoke with Suzanne Simon in Hanksville, Utah. Subjects: parentage, old buildings, high school and family, mail delivery by horseback, sheep and cattle grazing, accidents, wild horses and other animals (32 pages).
Dates:
1971
A. L. Weisborn, 1970
File — Box: 12, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Weisborn, of the Office of Mineral Exploration, U. S. Geological Survey, was interviewed by Nancy Hunsaker in Spokane, Washington. Subjects: personal background, uranium mining in Spokane area, discovery of Daybreak Mine, Silver Buckle Mine, future of uranium, John LeBret (14 pages).
Dates:
1970
Chester A. Wright, 1970
File — Box: 12, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Wright, whose family have been involved in mining for years, spoke with Patricia Ray in Los Angeles, California. Subjects: Uranium, Vanadium, and Carnotite mining, organization of independent miners, Navajo reservation, Babel detectors, Charlie Steen and Howard Balsely, grubstaking, changes in mining over the years, ore percentages, important people in the industry, early hardships (43 pages).
Dates:
1970
L. B. Wright, 1970
File — Box: 12, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Patricia Ray interviewed Wright, an indepdendent miner, in Garden Grove, California. Subjects: surface and aerial techniques, maintaining claims, mining co-ops, ore grades, Navajo workers, safety, equipment, medical consequences of mining, finding uranium, AEC aid to independent miners, rewards of mining (37 pages).
Dates:
1970
George W. Wynecock, 1970
File — Box: 12, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Nancy Hunsaker interviewed Wynecock, of the Midnite Mines, in Spokane, Washington. Subjects: personal background, LeBret Brothers' mine, uranium ore, the reservation during the boom (17 pages).
Dates:
1970