| Title |
Cato Sells, Fort Defiance, Arizona, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Cato Sells, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Sells, Cato |
| Contributor |
Biel, Kathy |
| Date |
1970-07-31 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Fort Defiance, Apache County, Arizona, United States |
| Subject |
Sells, Cato--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--New Mexico; Navajo Indian Reservation--Industries |
| Description |
Transcript (25 pages) of an interview by Kathy Biel with Cato Sells, on July 31, 1970. From tape number 3 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Sells, a Navajo prospector, mine owner, contractor, and the Superintendent of Water Development for the Navajo tribe, spoke with Kathy Biel in his office at Fort Defiance. Subjects: personal background, mining business, uranium on the reservation, Navajo workers, Climax Corporation, prospects for more mining (25 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
25 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/s67d527p |
| Topic |
Uranium mines and mining; Navajo Indians; United States--Navajo Indian Reservation |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054476 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67d527p |
| Title |
Page 4 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054452 |
| OCR Text |
Show SELLS PAGE 2 CS: Yes. KB.: Uh huh. What was your first job as a young man when you got out of high school? CS: Well, my first major job that I took was--in my high school, I took the pre-vocational high school course. I took up automobile. And so I'd start out as an automobile mechanic, and I spend about sixteen, eighteen year in that garage. KB: Was this in Riverside? CS: No, I came back here on the reservation. KB,: Oh, you came back here? CS: Yes, and I spent about that many years, and then back in 1943, I started off by myself--in business for myself. Uh, it was until I went to work for the tribe that I was on my own. I had the--this garage, then I had two garages, and I was in the trucking business in Four Corners area during the uranium period. I was also in construction. Half of the Navajo reservation constructing dams, and reservoirs, and things. And also I was in the mining operation--mining and leasing, and working on some of the leases that I had on the reservation. And I liquidated everything I had back in 1958, and I temporarily went into retirement until I took this job here back in 1961, and here I am. KB.: And what is your job here? |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67d527p/1054452 |
