| Title |
Harold Eugene Shumway, Blanding, Utah, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Harold Eugene Shumway, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Shumway, Harold E. |
| Contributor |
Erick, Dorothy; Simon, Suzanne |
| Date |
1970-07-23 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Shumway, Harold E.--Interviews; Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--Utah; Uranium industry--United States |
| Description |
Transcript (114 pages) of an interview by Dorothy Erick and Suzanne Simon with Harold Shumway, on July 23, 1970. From tape number UR-147 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Dorothy Erick and Suzanne Simon interviewed Shumway in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: family mines, Monument Two mine, Cord mine, Navajo miners and welfare, AEC bonuses, mines in the Cottonwood area, Pillard mining, shipping ore to the mills, blow sand, smelting and milling, depressed markets and the small miner, royalties on mines, the Shumway family and mining, mining equipment, government standards, discovery methods, mining as a lifestyle, hobbies and recreation, stocks and overspeculation, Charlie Steen, Mr. Pick, Ray Ransom, the death of Mr. Schreiber, Thayne Robinson, Vernon Black, Claude Nugent, "Old Chandler," Bernard Black, the Maybe mine, the Happy Jack mine, Dr. Stokes, mining techniques, the future of mining, mining towns, the stock boom, success of locals, oral histories (114 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
114 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/s6fx9hh6 |
| 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 |
1053866 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fx9hh6 |
| Title |
Page 64 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053812 |
| OCR Text |
Show HAROLD EUGENE SHUMWAY #1 DE: Now this is at various times throughout the year? HS: Yeah, so many that they came after me and made me take out a license for a dealer. So I don't do that anymore. Back in those days I used to take cars and keep in new ones, and you'd never have to buy tires and it didn't cost me nothing. I'd drive five or six, seven eight cars a year and I' d--I knew how to buy them, to do it free you might say. That was kind of one of my hobbies that I--but I can't do it anymore in fact. Times have changed. So I don't live out in the mountains completely. I really don't like to camp out over about--mining is, if you've really got good facilities it's not so bad, but it's awful dirty. We prefer to come to town two or three days, and it's a lot better, really, I think. I always liked [it], the hired men always liked [it]. Some people have them go stay a week at a time, but I really didn't. I figured a person come to town at least twice a week, and if he wants to go do something, you know, he cleaned up better and would do around the mine--I think he does a better job and will work harder. I know I do. A person gets pretty lonely out there after a few days. Misses a lot of big bucks. DE: Well, your town has changed then considerably since the boom time. 61 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fx9hh6/1053812 |
