| Title |
John & Lorraine Hill, Grand Junction, Colorado, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
John & Lorraine Hill, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Hill, John; Hill, Lorraine |
| Contributor |
Engle, Clare |
| Date |
1970-07-21 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Uravan, Montrose County, Colorado, United States |
| Subject |
Hill, John--Interviews; Hill, Lorraine--Interviews; Uranium miners--Colorado--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--Colorado; Uranium industry--United States |
| Keywords |
Union Carbide |
| Description |
Transcript (47 pages) of an interview by Clare Engle with John and Lorraine Hill, on July 21, 1970. From tape number UR-187 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Clare Engle interviewed Hill, the retired general manager of the mining and metals division at Union Carbide, in Grand Junction, Colorado. Mrs. Hill also contributed to the interview. Subjects: first job at Climax, second job at Uravan, facilities in 1936, social life, medicine, buying and selling ore, the Manhattan District and Weber Report, other mines and miners, Union Carbide in Western Colorado (47 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
16 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/s6vd95d8 |
| Topic |
Uranium miners; Uranium industry; Uranium mines and mining |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053502 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vd95d8 |
| Title |
Page 9 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053461 |
| OCR Text |
Show MR. AND MRS. JOHN HILL #1 traveling for Union Carbide, the New York office, all over the United States on various p r o j ects , and then it got pretty quiet along about 1945. The Uravan plant was shut down and the Rifle plant was shut down and I was given a leave-of-absence for a year. We worked for Dr. Vandervil t and Dr. Ben Parker. Now, Dr. Ben Parker was the president of the college, the [ Colorado J School of Mines at that time, and Dr. Parker had followed him in a year or two as president of the college of the School of Mines. And their job was to evaluate about 3,000,000 acres of the Ute lands, the Ute Indian lands for various minerals that they, the Ute Indians were trying to get paid from the federal government that they should have had at the time that the lands were turned over to them, and the evaluation was based on a 1938 date. That was handled by the man who was President of BYU at that time, Mr. Wilkinson. Well, for there-- CE: Can we go back to Uravan? I am very interested in Uravan and the company town. I'm hoping to develop that quite extensively, to do a paper on it. JH: I see. CE: Because as far as I can find, in the many libraries as I have checked, and through the Reader's Gui de which I have used extensively, nothing has ever been 7 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vd95d8/1053461 |
