| 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 42 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055391 |
| OCR Text |
Show WILLIAM EVERETT HALDANE #1 WH: Well, you know the thing that I regret, the man that had the best knowledge of the uranium picture overall was Joe Weston, and Joe was one of these types of fellows--well, he was county commissioner of San Juan County, Utah, at the time of the last Indian uprising down there at Bluff and he financed the posse that eventually got the Indian insurrectionists. But Joe has so many stories and I kept them in mind for a period of time and I kept thinking, "Well, if I ever get a few minutes, a few days I'm going to sit down and I'm going to write this up, you know." Well, now I've forgotten the stories and-- CE: That's too bad. WH: And I regret very much that this is the case. MH: This is a real good book on this thing. But none of these would I part with except just on loan. CE: You know, we've been trying to find--there's one copy available of that in Southern California I think, and two or three of the students were able to read it, but it couldn't be passed out to all 15 of us. We read about 15 books and about this much material. MH: She sent this to Dad because he helped, I mean he gave her some of the information on it and-- CE: My prof, used this as a resource but he said that a lot of this is-- 38 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49/1055391 |
