| 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 47 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053397 |
| OCR Text |
Show WARREN R. DECK WD: ---?---. Blanding, it's spread all over the place up there. There are areas where the water---?---. We're trying to develop a recreation water project, not that we want to develop recreation water for our own ---?--- ---?--- 2 miles east of Monticello. Next dam project is on McElmo Canyon over there and will provide land in irrigation water for quite a large area of the arm of suspension of the Navajo Reservation. The Greek natural project which will be in conjunction with the State Highways is costing about ---?--- somewhere between 4 and 6 million dollars a year. How much will be involved there I don't know, and so far as the water is concerned, it will probably be around $1,000,000. Cottonwood, there's another 3 or 4 million dollar deal. But as I say, this other thing should have, recycling the water should start, then all we've got to have is--?--- East of Denver, [in the] 1930 days [in the] east of Colorado there was no water anywhere. There was not water anywhere, the river had run dry, the lakes, great dry country, 1935. The only rains we ever had in Denver brought mud. Dust in the air and the rains are coming. There was dust all over the buildings downtown. Now, it looks like the land of 1 akes down there. It 1 ooks 1 ike Minnesota. I just 43 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zd08z6/1053397 |
