| Title |
Everett Blackburn, Placerville, Colorado, Uranium History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Everett Blackburn, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Blackburn, Everett |
| Contributor |
Henslick, Harry |
| Date |
1970-07-29 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Placerville, San Miguel County, Colorado, United States |
| Subject |
Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Blackburn, Everett--Interviews; Vanadium industry--United States; Vanadium Corporation of America; Navajo Indian Reservation--Social conditions; Navajo Indian Reservation--Economic conditions |
| Description |
Transcript (29 pages) of an interview by Harry Henslick with Everett Blackburn, on July 29, 1970. From tape number 111 in the Uranium History Project |
| Abstract |
Blackburn was interviewed by Harry Henslick in Placerville, Colorado. Subjects: how he became interested in mining, experiences on the reservation, job at VCA, his accident, civil suit against FCA and Union Carbide, Monument mine, future of the vanadium industry, DeVar Shumway (29 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
29 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/s6rv2vsc |
| Topic |
Uranium miners; Vanadium industry; Vanadium Corporation of America; United States--Navajo Indian Reservation; Navajo Indians--Social conditions; Navajo Indians--Economic conditions |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053686 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rv2vsc |
| Title |
Page 11 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053661 |
| OCR Text |
Show EVERETT BLACKBURN EB: And there's, some of them were running machinery, some of them drilling, and some of them mucking, you know, and just everything. HH: A you had a really a large operation when you consider you had not only the Monument Number Two but the other leases. EB: I had the Cove and the East Reservation and the West Reservation and Monument Three. HH: Was Monument One, was it working at that time? EB: Monument One was working a little bit at that time, not too much, they had good ore there in Two. We just concentrated on that and started putting that out. HH: I saw a, we spent the last couple of days up and down on the old VCA mill there, what's left of it at Foote Minerals. EB: Did you see Bob Anderson? HH: Yes, I've been talking to him but we spend one day, four hours down in the records of VCA and one thing that was interesting that I saw was a sketch made for the lease on Monument Number Two, and it was right at the time, within a month or two of the time, that VCA won or got that lease. Now it that time they showed the lease for Monument Number Two though consisting of only 2.87 acres or something very similar and very small on acreage. EB: And then many miles taken, I figure they finally got 7 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rv2vsc/1053661 |
