Harold E. Shumway, Blanding, UT: Uranium Oral Histories

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Title Harold E. Shumway, Blanding, UT: Uranium Oral Histories
Description Dorothy Erick and Suzanne Simon interviewed Shumway in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: family mines, Monument Two mine, Cord mine, Navajo miners and welfare, AEC bonuses, mines in the Cottonwood area, Pillard mining, shipping ore to the mills, blow sand, smelting and milling, depressed markets and the small miner, royalties on mines, the Shumway family and mining, mining equipment, government standards, discovery methods, mining as a lifestyle, hobbies and recreation, stocks and overspeculation, Charlie Steen, Mr. Pick, Ray Ransom, the death of Mr. Schreiber, Thayne Robinson, Vernon Black, Claude Nugent, "Old Chandler," Bernard Black, the Maybe mine, the Happy Jack mine, Dr. Stokes, mining techniques, the future of mining, mining towns, the stock boom, success of locals, oral histories. Tape #147.
Creator Shumway, Harold E.
Contributor Erick, Dorothy; Simon, Suzanne
Date 1970-07-23
Subject Shumway, Harold E.--Interviews; Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--Utah; Uranium industry--United States
Collection Number and Name A0343 Uranium Oral History
Collection Name Uranium Oral History collection
Holding Institution Multimedia Archive, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Genre open reel audiotape
Type Sound
Format audio/mpeg
Extent 2:53:57
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Finding Aid https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv377489
ARK ark:/87278/s6jhyg8a
Setname uum_avacr
ID 2520651
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jhyg8a
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