| Title |
Chester Martin, Grand Junction, Colorado, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Chester Martin, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Martin, Chester |
| Contributor |
Engle, Clare |
| Date |
1970-07-23 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, United States |
| Subject |
Martin, Chester--Interviews; Uranium miners--Colorado--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--Colorado |
| Keywords |
Union Carbide; Synthetic sapphire |
| Description |
Transcript (81 pages) of an interview by Clare Engle with Chester Martin, on July 23, 1970. From tape number UR-170 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Clare Engel interviewed Martin in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: employment with Union Carbide, the atomic bomb, peacetime uses of atomic energy, pollution, government compensation, AEC bonuses, economic ups and downs, small miners, investments, competition, contract miners, safety, the school and the mill, camp layout, unions and management, layoffs, cost of maintaining Uravan, company benefits, problems (81 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
81 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/s6vb0g49 |
| Topic |
Uranium miners; Uranium mines and mining |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056321 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vb0g49 |
| Title |
Page 6 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056242 |
| OCR Text |
Show CHESTER MARTIN #1 of manufacturing this synthetic sapphire in the Tanawanda, New York laboratories, and they decided to build this production plant at East Chicago, in the garage of the old plant which was then being abandoned for oxygen production, because it would be close to the supply of oxygen from the tonnage oxygen plant and also within reasonable trucking distance of hydrogen from the Whiting, Indiana plant of the corporation. I worked in this secret sapphire production plant for about a year and I moved to Tanawanda, New York, to work in a uranium treatment plant there. At that time this was also classified as secret. Much of the material that was used in the first atomic bomb was produced, as I understand it, in the Tanawanda plant, as well as a few other plants operated throughout the country. There were several carloads of ore that were shipped from the Colorado plateau to Tanawanda. We also processed imported uranium form the Congo in Africa. It was received in small 30 gallon containers. If you can imagine shipping all of this by boat to this country and then unloading and shipping this by railroad to Tanawanda for further treatment. Then we shipped it somewhere else, of course, for further refinement, before it finally got to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and then was 3 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vb0g49/1056242 |
