Box 5
Contains 15 Results:
Sigird Hendricksen, 1970
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).
Donald R. Hill, 1970
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).
John and Lorraine Hill, 1970
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).
Donald Hitland, 1970
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).
Joseph E. Hopkins Jr., 1970
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).
John Horsely, 1970
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abstract of titles, litigation over claims, prospectors and mining laws, patenting a claim, conservation and ecology, outdated mining laws (22 pages).
Andrew Hunt, 1970
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).
Kay Hunt, 1970
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).
Ray Hunt, 1970
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).
Elmer Hurst, 1970
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).
W. Spencer Hutchinson, 1970
Richard Gibbs and Greg Brolin interviewed Hutchinson at the AEC compound in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: personal background, duties at the AEC, access road program, lawsuits against the AEC, reflections on years spent at AEC (18 pages).
Carlos L. Hyde, 1970
Hyde spoke with Suzanne Simon in Monticello, Utah. Subjects: personal background, types of mines, hazards in the mills, Happy Jack mine, Fry Canyon, explosives, accidents, isolation, recreation, ore processing, the closure of the Happy Jack, Lake Powell, Highway 95 (27 pages).
Kay P. Johnson, 1970
Johnson was interviewed by Suzanne Simon at his home in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: Bridge One mine, service in World War II, trucking business, college, trading post, health hazards, helping stake claims, Gilbert Shumway's involvement with the Happy Jack, VCA pilot plant (20 pages).
Alma Jones, 1970
Jones was interviewed by Kathy Biel at her home in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: how her family came to Blanding, relations with the Navajos, schooling of Navajos, Navajo attitudes toward Whites, mining and prospecting, problems with Navajo work and attitude toward money, trading with Navajos, welfare program, legal problems on the reservation (42 pages).
Cardon Jones, 1971
Suzanne Simon and Dorothy Erick talked with Jones in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: personal background, grandparents in Bluff, first uranium found, Red Canyon claims, Goat Pasture claims, ranching in Colorado, Canyonlands, Escalante Trail, Jacob Adams, Butch Cassidy and Mat Wonger, Joe Bush, Dr. Park, and Howard Williams (42 pages).