| 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 41 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053493 |
| OCR Text |
Show MR. AND MRS. JOHN HILL #1 properties out here on the plateau, they called them gopher holes, I mean they were mining with wheelbarrows because very few people u.nderstood the geology of these deposits and they were very much concerned about where they were going to get this uranium, so I think that the first uranium brought into this country was brought in from South Africa. CE: Well, the first vanadium-JR: Uranium. CE: Uranium, all right. Belgian Congo. (Zaire] JH: What I don't say is that I think--well, I'm quite sure that the people in Carbide also felt that they didn't have sufficient ores in the Uravan area that contained uranium to make an operation, although we kept saying that the area was no problem. They wouldn't believe us because we're out here and they're back there and they don't speak our language, let's say. They' re not engineers. But it was Mr. Burwell, and Senator Ed Johnson and Senator Millikin, but it was principally Burwell. It had to be Burwell 'cause he was the only one that understood the ore occurrence, told the politicians that we did have a source of uranium and all it took was the money to get the uranium out. Now Carbide, Wally---?---, he was in Tucson, he was president of USV at that time. 39 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vd95d8/1053493 |
