| 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 70 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055178 |
| OCR Text |
Show LEON FRAZIER #2 keep getting a larger farm and a larger farm to produce an income to make any money. Smal 1 miners used to be able to go in and do the work themselves, and if they could make ten or fifteen dollars a day, boy, that was big money to them. That no longer is true. You get to a point where the small miner, if he's going to put electricity into it, he's going to have to pay the electrician $6.20 an hour to come and put the power in, and he's going to have to get all of these craftsmen to come out, and that's going to cost him a fortune. And the miners can make--I don't know what the going scale is, but it's substantially more than it was even back in 1951 to '57 during the uranium boom there. So it costs the small man so much more money to get into the business now, you see. Trucks cost more, dynamite costs more. MH: It's not even worth it then? LF: The equipment costs more, and so the price of the ore is not substantially increased. In fact, you get about the same as you did before out of it, but once you've got a very profitable operation, you can't afford to sell it, you see. You can't afford to mine anymore because of the cost. It's not the big companies fault. It's just that unless you've got a big operation and a big amount of capital to put into 39 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69k6j8n/1055178 |
