| Title |
Mars Pope, Moab, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Mars Pope, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Pope, Mars |
| Contributor |
Guttman, Steve |
| Date |
1970-07-22 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Pope, Mars--Interviews; Blanding (Utah) |
| Description |
Transcript (52 pages) of an interview by Steve Guttman with Mars Pope, on July 22, 1970. From tape number 32 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Pope talked with Steve Guttman in the commissioner's office of the county courthouse in Moab, Utah. Subjects: effect of boom on power company, expansion, mines and power, accidents, road conditions, water shortage, county budget, housing problems, teenagers, airport (52 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
52 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s61v7n1d |
| Topic |
Utah--Blanding |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1052721 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61v7n1d |
| Title |
Page 35 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1052699 |
| OCR Text |
Show MARS POPE Ill PAGE 32 the more customers they can pick up , no mat ter whether they can call it a valid customer or not, why , the mor e money they can get s.uo.sidized. They just don't care. Of course, t h ey ' ve got to care some, but what I mean is with t he diffe r ent s ub s idies , they can build to people that the power company can't. SG: To kind of change the s.ub.ject-- MP: Of course, maybe I'm a little prejudiced working for the power company. 1•11 admit mayb.e I am. B:Ut that's just the way I look at it. SG: Well, to kind of change the subject a little bit. Were the road conditions any problem for you back when you were working for the electric company? MP: Roads. were a prohlem at that time. You take the roads out to this mining district. They were pretty crude, some of them. I know when you go over a road that is maybe four or eighteen inches wider than your car, and you drop down maybe five, six hundred feet, you've kind of got your foot in your mouth. SG: You take it slow? MP: You sure do! Had been times_ when we had had storms that I was jus·t afraid to drive on s.ome of them. I just wouldn't do it. Now- most of thes.e roads like this, though, are what I'd call short cuts. It's easier for me to go to this point maybe a |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61v7n1d/1052699 |
