| Title |
Adam M. Duncan, Salt Lake City, Utah, Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Adam M. Duncan, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Duncan, Adam M. |
| Contributor |
Haddard, Mitch |
| Date |
1970-08-04 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Duncan, Adam M.--Interviews; Lawyers--Utah; Uranium industry--United States |
| Keywords |
Attorneys |
| Description |
Transcript (32 pages) of an interview by Mitch Haddard with Adam Duncan, on August 4, 1970. From tape number 131 in the Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Duncan, an attorney, was interviewed by Mitch Haddad in Salt Lake City. Subjects: uranium mining industry securities, penny stocks and uranium company shells, types of mining claims, the Gillette, Wyoming "new gold rush," multi-use of federal lands, Charlie Steen, Milton Love (SEC Commissioner), Canyonlands, typical prospector, Stella Dysart, government subsidies, shell game, gambling (32 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
18 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/s6tm9j6w |
| Topic |
Lawyers; Uranium industry |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054563 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tm9j6w |
| Title |
Page 17 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054542 |
| OCR Text |
Show ADAM M. DUNCAN he came to work Monday morning there was over 40 thousand dollars in either cash or checks people had pushed through his transom, through his mail slot saying, "Buy me anything". And of course naturally when Republic came out at a penny why it went to ten or twelve cents. It had an interesting piece of property and no uranium on it. Another firm that formed, later became Call Smoot. His partner was Steve Smoot who just recently resigned. He's been head of the Democratic party in Utah and also resigned recently as Department of Commerce director for Utah, whatever his title is. They also went bankrupt. Then there was another one, Dick Mueller. Dick had an MBA from Harvard, and he had been working with, I think, several exchange houses. He quit, formed Mueller Dumkey & Light. And they sold so much penny stock that they then bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange with great publicity, the youngest member of the New York Stock Exchange. Light later spun off and Dumkey went off to other things. Dick Mueller sold his seat to Schwabacher. But very great fortunes were made in a very short time, not through digging uranium ore, but from getting a bunch of shares in the penny stock, and watching the stock run. The violations of the Federal Securities Laws, why, every sort of violation occurred, but nobody was doing it on purpose. They just didn't know and the staff in Denver, 13 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tm9j6w/1054542 |
