| Title |
William Everett & Marge Haldane, Grand Junction, Colorado, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
William Everett & Marge Haldane, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Everett, William; Haldane, Marge |
| Contributor |
Engle, Clare |
| Date |
1970-08-04 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, United States |
| Subject |
Everett, William--Interviews; Haldane, Marge--Interviews; Vanadium industry--United States; Uranium industry--United States; Vanadium Corporation of America |
| Keywords |
Union Carbide |
| Description |
Transcript (62 pages) of an interview by Clare Engle with William Everett and Marge Haldane, on August 4, 1970. From tape number UR-179 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Clare Engle interviewed the Haldanes in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: uranium plants in the 1940s, army engineers, Manhattan district, exploration program and the VCA, the boom, fixed scales and unfair pricing, conflict with oil leases, Mr. Burwell, the demise of VCA, the town of Uravan, Doc Haldane, family situation, politics and unions, crime, individual miners (62 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
44 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/s6156q49 |
| Topic |
Uranium industry; Vanadium industry; Vanadium Corporation of America |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055417 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49 |
| Title |
Page 21 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055370 |
| OCR Text |
Show WILLIAM EVERETT HALDANE #1 CE: Both, but I'm goi ng to go back to Uravan after Mr. WH: Haldane decides that he wants to, because this is very interesting to us in that mu c h of this is information I don't have. Well, the I'll just carry on a little bit further along line here. In about the middle of 1950, an operator from--a man who had put up some money and bought some mining property, in fact he was one that bought some of my property. I needed somebody to operate the properties, and a little reluctantly I left Minerals Engineering Company but went, as general manager, partially because I would get, I also had a stock option in his company. So I took over the management of this company. We started out with about $1,500 in cash in the bank and about $90,000 worth of debts. In a five year period we had about a $100,000 dollars in the bank and about four or five thousand dollars worth of assets. All the debts had been paid off. CE: What were you doing specifically? WH: We were mining over on the Leaking group which was an AEC lease which was originally granted to Mineral Engineering Company, but they decided they didn't want to operate it any further, so they allowed Mr. Ortemeyer or Ortemeyer Mining Company to take over 17 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49/1055370 |
