| 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 33 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053383 |
| OCR Text |
Show WARREN R. DECK cliff. We got in a little black thing and just started around the side of the drip there and got in the swinging bridge. I can still recount how Jack--?--- and that the Atomic Energy Commission should--?--- the money. So, that's how this road out here of 50 miles got built, and I can tell you how the other sections got built. One section from the border to Kayenta. This was several years later and they'd gotten a road built from Mexican Hat to the border, mainly through Atomic Energy Commission funds. That was a 1 i ttle better road than this one. Now they needed a road to Kayenta, and this public relations, this whole lobby program in order to get big funds to go across that northern reservation, we figured we had to have a road into Kayenta. There was not Atomic Energy Commission assistance possible. There was not state assistance. There was no BIA assistance. The Indians had been given many millions of dollars for their rehabilitation programs and ---?--- 20,000,000; 30,000,000 million for their roads. 30,000,000 for health and 30,000,000 for education. They had spent $18,000, 000 of the ---?---. Arizona wouldn't do anything about encouraging the Indians to build this road or help build it. So the Indians wouldn't touch it. There was no help from Utah, that 29 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zd08z6/1053383 |
