| Title |
Andrew Riddle, Grand Junction, Colorado, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Andrew Riddle, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Riddle, Andrew, 1893-1990 |
| Contributor |
McFarlane, John |
| Date |
1971-07-04 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, United States |
| Subject |
Riddle, Andrew, 1893-1990--Interviews; Uranium miners--Colorado--Interviews; Radium industry--United States; Uranium mines and mining--Colorado |
| Description |
Transcript (35 pages) of an interview by John McFarlane with Andrew Riddle, on July 4, 1971. From tape number UR-161 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
John McFarlane interviewed Andrew Riddle in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: Paradox Valley, the Yellow Bird and Cashin mines, the Depression and debt, burros, wild horses, radium and vanadium, ranching, the stock market crash, uranium boom, closing of the mill (35 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
35 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/s6rb9bkz |
| Topic |
Uranium miners; Uranium mines and mining; Radium industry |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055902 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rb9bkz |
| Title |
Page 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055887 |
| OCR Text |
Show ANDREW RIDDLE on the old food ranch. They got so numerous they killed 600 burros over there in one year. They would drift to the high country and drift back to the low country, see, in the wintertime. East Paradox was all low country, and the burros were just too numerous for that kind of support. That's why there are three, four, or five hundred burros in East Paradox but those burros--it was one of their early industries in Paradox. We had John Mancos and Karl Acres whose business was to bring stock down from Telluride, to winter them in this low country. In the spring when the grass got--when the snow went away up in the high country, they'd take that stock back. Mining, whenever mining was slack, abandoned down there, no matter whether it was gold mining, silver mining or uranium mining, when the uranium boom came in there were a lot of Telluride pack animals abandoned all raised in that country, you know. This story about wild horses being of Spanish origin and all these things that you hear, that's in somebody's mind's eye. The Spaniards didn't abandon them, the Indians didn't abandon them. White people abandoned them. JM: Now did you have to take any special means of controlling these animals when they got to be a menace? 21 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rb9bkz/1055887 |
