| 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 56 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056292 |
| OCR Text |
Show CHESTER MARTIN #1 these are your early days. CE: Are they dated? CM: No.' These are the same ones that we looked at here that are not dated. CE: Not this though. CM: Not this, but these are the bigger ones. CE: OK, al 1 right, I '11 go through those and determine which I think would be valuable. I know they'd all be valuable. CM: Well, you see these are, I'm sure these are all about the--there's not a thing on them, but this has to be way, way back. CE: It says USD, so it might have been '3 5, wasn't USD acquired then? CM: Yes. This would probably be. Well, I imagine, we had these made when we first acquired that. Yes. These are the ones that you want. I have already had negatives made so you can just have prints made and the get me the negatives made. Now this is the present house where the plant superintendent lives and that is, you'll see from the modern picture here, we run on to pretty soon. You can't even see any of these houses for all the massive trees that have grown in here over the past few years. Now since then, we've built houses all the way around here and 53 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vb0g49/1056292 |
