| 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 36 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1052700 |
| OCR Text |
Show MARS POPE #1 PAGE 33 couple of miles over one of these terrible roads than it w:as to go hack here and drive twenty or thirty on a fairly good road. So you take these just to save time. I know I took my wife down with me once, and she said, "That's enough." She never drove again. SG: So most of the time then, the roads. were good enough that you did have access- to-- MP: Oh no. Well, I tell you, when you're used to driving that type of road, and I had some experience when I was first learning to drive even in Vernal County which was all primitive roads, you might say, you get so you know what you can do and what you can't do. When you've got a dangerous situation, you recognize it more, I think, than people that haven''.t had enough experience on these rough roads. You get a pretty good idea of what you're doing. SG: So somebody just coming down from Salt Lake City wouldn't have made it? Prob.ably? MP: I think probably they wouldn't have even tried. And in the winter when it goes out here, yo~ know we have quite a bit of snow. Well, when there's. jus.t about s.o much snow, you know when you'd better not try it. There's no s·ens.e going out there and getting stuck and not getting back. And if you got about so much, why you go |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61v7n1d/1052700 |
