| 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 57 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055165 |
| OCR Text |
Show LEON FRAZIER #2 bit of work because he also had some properties in the Moab area, and they've leased property to the major mining companies. Attorneys who took an interest in investing got into it just because they wanted to find out how their investment was being taken care of. There was an attorney here in Provo, Joe H. ---?--- who handled a few mining companies and did some work. He's since retired and left the area, but the attorneys who are interested in that type of work usually invested in the companies and took stock in them and participated. MH: So they could have lost just as much as anybody else, huh? LF: That's right. And many of us did. MH: I have a question, too, also for the attorneys. You could probably answer this, working for Howard Hughes, too. When you work for a large corporation, I mean, a multi-million dollar operation or a sizable type of operation, what are the main legal problems in mining that come about for that corporation? LF: Well, of course, I've never worked for a large mining corporation, and it's only been recently that Hughes came to Nevada--since I left the organization--that Hughes has gotten into the mining business. So really I don't feel I'm qualified to say what the problems 26 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69k6j8n/1055165 |
