| 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 27 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055891 |
| OCR Text |
Show ANDREW RIDDLE competing with one another they were also competing with Byrell Willmouth. His ore went to France and one thing they found out you know, when we got involved in World War I we almost adopted, we abandoned our three-inch guns and adopted the French 75. They all had vanadium steel barrels in them, and no doubt a lot of those came right off the Colorado Plateau. When the war was over Ford began to use vanadium steel in his cars, so we found out what vanadium was good for anyway. JM: Now you say it took a lot of people to support the mines, and the mines then were supporting the economy of the valley, entering the radium boom? AR: Well, outside the farming and ranching that was going on~ but the area, Nucla, Naturita had a full---?--uranium, and there was people everyplace. It didn't equal this last boom in numbers of people because it didn't have the publicity that--but when the Manhattan Project came in and the bomb exploded in Japan we were on our way to the big boom which lasted. JM: Well, after this radium boom and the economy then collapsed, how was the economy just before, just before the fall of 1929, just before the Depression? Were times tough by that time already? 25 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rb9bkz/1055891 |
