| 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 |
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| 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 45 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055153 |
| OCR Text |
Show LEON FRAZIER #2 stone." So you have to advise what to do in Utah and what they don't practice law in those other states, and we have to know enough about it so we can tell them they'd better do this to protect themselves in another state. And if there's any real serious legal question to get in touch with an attorney in New Mexico or Arizona or wherever it is. MH: This brings to mind a question that a lot of the people who are concerned with the mining, the uranium prospectors, you know, miners, the corporation head-well, are they leery, say, of the lawyer? It's an area where basically even a prospector doesn't know too much about the law regarding uranium mining, does he? LF: Well, I think that most people are leery of lawyers that are not really used to using lawyers. People who have problems--and there have been a lot of stories told in different areas, I'm sure, about the attorneys and so forth--but I think basically people who have legal problems are leery of lawyers whether they' re in the mining business, or they 've got a divorce, or whether they got any kind of a patented idea that they think somebody may take advantage of. I don't think there's any more leeriness on the part of people who have discovered mining claims than 14 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69k6j8n/1055153 |
