| Title |
Carl Mahon, Blanding, Utah, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Carl Mahon, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Mahon, Carl |
| Contributor |
Simon, Suzanne |
| Date |
1970-08-09 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Mahon, Carl--Interviews; Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews |
| Description |
Transcript (79 pages) of an interview by Suzanne Simon with Carl Mahon, on August 9, 1970. From tape numbers UR-159 and UR-160 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Suzanne Simon interviewed Mahon at his home in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: Mahon's early interest in mining, prospecting and the boom, Montezuma Creek, naive prospectors, red-hot claims, development, Peate claims, the Happy Jack mine, Navajo miners, the "red-headed woman," milling, the Sandy mine, a job with the Bureau of Land Management, bighorn sheep sightings, hunts, water, a ewe named Mabel, lambs, Father Escalante (79 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
41 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/s67h3rj8 |
| Topic |
Uranium miners |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054846 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67h3rj8 |
| Title |
Page 58 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054821 |
| OCR Text |
Show CARL MAHON #1 reports all the time, and I would document them, where I saw them and the time and the sex and all about it. We kept putting this data down and then we got Mel Call, the state BLM biologist down. He went with us and we got to see more sheep. So he helped us. In the meantime, I was elected president of the Blanding Sportsmen Club, so I put lots of pressure to bear there, but when the vote came up to make a recommendation of anything I didn't vote, the Board of Directors did the vote and I only voted in case of a tie. So actually I encouraged them, but it was the directors that made the decisions. Finally they told us that the first graduate student coming to Utah State would be sent down here, the first one that they felt was qualified. So in early 1965 they told us that they had found a student, and they sent Lanney Wilson, a graduate from--he had his B.A. from Wyoming State, and came over to do his graduate work in Logan. So they set up a cooperative study with the cooperative wildlife research out of Logan and the Fish and Game and BLM. The Sports, Fish and Wildlife sponsored this study, and Lanney was here for two years. I knew the area quite well, Rudy Barkneack, Robby John and I took him on his first trip and then I was down there on numerous occasions. Lanney was an 55 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67h3rj8/1054821 |
