Box 5
Container
Contains 15 Results:
Sigird Hendricksen, 1970
File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Clare Engle spoke with Mr. Hendricksen in Los Angles, California. Subjects: early life, background check for the Manhattan Project, Camp Handford, secrecy and the atomic bomb, accidents, physicists, shipping of plutonium, isotopes for agriculture, retirement (40 pages).
Dates:
1970
Donald R. Hill, 1970
File — Box: 5, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Hill spoke with Greg Brolin and Richard Gibbs at the AEC compound in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: personal background, the AEC, qualifications for obtaining an AEC lease (7 pages).
Dates:
1970
John and Lorraine Hill, 1970
File — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Clare Engle interviewed Hill, the retired general manager of the mining and metals division at Union Carbide, in Grand Junction, Colorado. Mrs. Hill also contributed to the interview. Subjects: first job at Climax, second job at Uravan, facilities in 1936, social life, medicine, buying and selling ore, the Manhattan District and Weber Report, other mines and miners, Union Carbide in Western Colorado (47 pages).
Dates:
1970
Donald Hitland, 1970
File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Rich Gibbs and Greg Brolin interviewed Hitland at the AEC compound in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: personal background, working for the AEC, depositions, reconnaissance procedures, AEC exploration during boom, tools for exploration, small miners claims, Colorado Plateau, future of uranium deposits (16 pages).
Dates:
1970
Joseph E. Hopkins Jr., 1970
File — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Hopkins, a mining engineer for Union Carbide, spoke with Clare Engle in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: Alaska, VCA in Colorado, Slim Lundquist, boom years, the Manhattan Project, building plants, the Atomic Energy Commission, problems, housing, wives of miners, chief engineer (47 pages).
Dates:
1970
John Horsely, 1970
File — Box: 5, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Horsely, an attorney, was interviewed by Mitch Haddard in Salt Lake City. Subjects: personal background, uranium mining and the law, abstract of titles, litigation over claims, prospectors and mining laws, patenting a claim, conservation and ecology, outdated mining laws (22 pages).
Dates:
1970
Andrew Hunt, 1970
File — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Gary Shumway interviewed Hunt in Hanksville, Utah. Subjects: personal background, working with Scorups, White Canyon copper mine, crossing the Colorado on horseback, uranium industry, method of determining percentages, problems with mining, "The Bluebird" uranium claim, Vernon Pick and the Delta mine, copper claims in the Henry Mountains (20 pages).
Dates:
1970
Kay Hunt, 1970
File — Box: 5, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Hunt talked with Gary Shumway. Subjects: Vernon Pick, experience with the AEC, Union Carbide, vanadium mining, family involvements, prospecting during the boom, Circle Cliffs area (46 pages).
Dates:
1970
Ray Hunt, 1970
File — Box: 5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Kathy Biel interviewed Hunt at his trading post in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: personal background, previous jobs, Aneth Oil royalties trial, uranium mining in Monument Valley, Navajos working on the railroad, Navajo problems and attitudes, Indian traders, discovery of Rainbow Bridge, John Wetherill (43 pages).
Dates:
1970
Elmer Hurst, 1970
File — Box: 5, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Hurst was interviewed by Kathy Biel and Dorothy Erick in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: personal background, mining experience, contracting business, radon levels, Navajo employees and problems, tribal council, superstitions, wages, Navajo leadership, uranium royalties (42 pages).
Dates:
1970