| Title |
Leon Frazier, Provo, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Leon Frazier, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Frazier, Leon |
| Contributor |
Haddard, Mitch |
| Date |
1970-07-22 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah. |
| Spatial Coverage |
Provo, Utah County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Frazier, Leon--Interviews; Lawyers--Utah; Uranium industry--United States; Natural resources--Law and legislation |
| Keywords |
Attorneys; Atomic Energy Commission |
| Description |
Transcript (49 pages) of an interview by Mitch Haddard with Leon Frazier, on July 22, 1970. From tape number 47 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Mitch Haddard interviewed Frazier, a Provo attorney, twice. Subjects: personal background, uranium mining, ecology concerns, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), public lands, mining law, litigation, property ownership and patents, state regulations, mining corporations, problems of small miners (49 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
9 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/s69k6j8n |
| Topic |
Lawyers; Uranium industry; Natural resources--Law and legislation |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055189 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69k6j8n |
| Title |
Page 6 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055114 |
| OCR Text |
Show LEON FRAZIER #1 Hughes' legal staff until May of 1954, when I again returned to Utah and practiced in Utah, in Provo, until 1963, the spring of '63. Then I went to Denver and stayed there for about a year and came back and have practiced here since that time. I passed the bar in California and I'm a member of the California Bar Association as well as the Utah Bar Association. And I've had a lot of contact with the mining industry since 1954 in different areas. I don't specialize in mining law, but I do sort of specialize in real property law and litigations, and so as a result I've organized a lot of mining companies and particularly uranium companies, and have been personally associated with it as an investor and as an attorney. MH: What would you feel then are the chief problem areas legally of uranium mining? LF: Well, the uranium mining business sort of followed a cycle, I think. When I first came back to Utah in 1954, the uranium boom was just getting started. Steen's discovery had been announced down in southern Utah, and there was a great flurry of location of claims during that time. All over the Colorado Plateau and all up into Utah, and Nevada, and Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. So in '54 and '55, when I first really began getting active in 2 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69k6j8n/1055114 |
