| 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 5 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054453 |
| OCR Text |
Show SELLS PAGE 3 CS: I'm the Superintendant of Water Development of the Navajo Tribe in an area of 25,000 square miles. KB.: My goodness. So you were talked out of your retirement to come back to quite a responsible job here. CS: Well, I figured that the reservation had been good to me, and I felt uh, more obligated to help these people. And I figured perhaps I'd come back for five years, but I've been here since '61. Here it is '70. So I don't know. The more you do, there's more to be done. So actually, I don't know what the future holds for me. I'd like to get back on, and-- KB: What would you do, if you could talk yourself into leaving? CS: Well, I--I thinkg I'd quit and go traveling. Travel the world. KB,: Oh, you would? CS: Yes. KB,: Oh--Well, let's get back to your mining days. That's what I'm interested in. You say you were leasing and even prospecting at the same time you had your trucking business? Working construction? CS: Originally, I--uh, was in--I had one garage, and I started to prospect on the reservation soon after the Second World War. We worked out a program with the Navajo tribe, where the Navajo individual could go out and prospect and take leases and work |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67d527p/1054453 |
