| Title |
M. H. Kerr, Salt Lake City, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
M. H. Kerr, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Kerr, M. H. |
| Contributor |
Haddard, Mitch |
| Date |
1970-08-04 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Kerr, M. H.--Interviews; Auditors--Utah--Interviews; Uranium industry--United States |
| Keywords |
Tax auditors |
| Description |
Transcript (24 pages) of an interview by Mitch Haddard with M. H. Kerr, on August 4, 1970. From tape number 61 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Kerr, director of the Utah State Tax Commission, talked with Mitch Haddard in Salt Lake City. Subjects: assessment of taxes, tax laws, small mining companies, problems with tax assessment (24 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
15 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/s6sf538v |
| Topic |
Auditors; Uranium industry |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054885 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sf538v |
| Title |
Page 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054881 |
| OCR Text |
Show M. H. KERR #1 field, if they're in a mining activity in a county, that every bit of the activity should be considered one mine. MH: The courts ruled that each mine was as a separate piece. This is like, for example, when one company has three hundred claims, yet all they do (?), what prize mines or, you know, "glory holes" as they call them. And this is a large question that came up. MK: Uh huh. MH: Now, just kind of as a final question: would it be safe to say then that by its very nature would you call a uranium [mine] a different type of animal? I mean uranium seems to have a unique nature by itself, I mean in pertaining to mining laws as well as in pertaining to, you know, taxation, · state laws, and different other things. Then is it true to say that when the boom of the magnitude which hit Utah in the fifties and early sixties came, then did it take a while for the state and the organizations of the state to adjust to the size of the boom and the amount of money which was going in and out and other different things? MK: I would say so in the area of collection. But I would not--I do not think there was any problem in the 21 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sf538v/1054881 |
