| Title |
Warren R. Deck, Bluff, Utah, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Warren R. Deck, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Deck, Warren R. |
| Contributor |
Simon, Suzanne |
| Date |
1971-07-21 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Bluff, San Juan County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Deck, Warren R.--Interviews; Uranium industry--United States |
| Description |
Transcript (50 pages) of an interview by Suzanne Simon with Warren Deck, on July 21, 1971. From tape number UR-158 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Suzanne Simon interviewed Deck in Bluff, Utah. Subjects: cattle, diptheria, sheep, oil boom, old wagon road, Hereford cows, a flood, rock houses, uranium mills, a road for the reservation, water issues in San Juan county, water in Denver and cities in Arizona (50 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
32 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/s6zd08z6 |
| Topic |
Uranium industry |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053406 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zd08z6 |
| Title |
Page 14 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053364 |
| OCR Text |
Show WARREN R. DECK want 4500 cattle, there they were, you see. So the object of the deal was for these boys to get a good--?--- and get back to San Antonio. Have a little left over if possible, but whatever they got, it was by everybody pulling a little---?---, that would be the Bluff City Cattle Co. ---?--- to Salt lake for a little more money to make the deal and send these boys on their way and they had the cattle. Now there was another cattle deal that came in there, I think some time later. It might have been near the same time. It might have been a deal made for the same reason, that there wasn't any market. That was the Elk Mountain cattle. ss: Yes, I've heard of that. WD: These cattle were marked E-L-K and Elk Mountain, I don't think had anything to do with a lot of elk being there. I think it has to do with these cattle, they were marked E-L-K. As I understand they were a bunch of outlaws that ran these cattle, sort of in the old dug-out ranch area, around the backside of the Blue Mountains. See, Blanding was the summer playground of the Utes that came over from the Ouray. When you got north of Blanding, that wasn't connected with this country at all. There was this country, there were the Ute Indians, and the outlaws were up 10 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zd08z6/1053364 |
