| Title |
Pearl Baker, Green River, Utah: Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Pearl Baker, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Baker, Pearl, 1907-1992 |
| Contributor |
McFarlane, John |
| Date |
1971-07-09 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Ferron, Emery County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Baker, Pearl, 1907-1992--Interviews |
| Description |
Transcript (53 pages) of an interview by John McFarlane with Pearl Baker, on July 9, 1971. From tape number UR-155 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
John McFarlane interviewed Pearl Baker in Green River, Utah. Subjects: horses, springs, the Chaplin family, damage caused by Lake Powell, teaching school in White Canyon, the mill and trading post, parties and diversions, school children, housing, Hanksville, White Canyon characters, Craig Carpenter, drifters, the Pick Mine (53 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
53 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/s69s3z2v |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057164 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69s3z2v |
| Title |
Page 52 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057161 |
| OCR Text |
Show PEARL BAKER #1 Wolverton. He was a man of tremendous ability. He was a surveyor, and when they have surveyed over lands that he staked they have found his surveys were right, but he couldn't live in town. There are some people who just can't live in town, so he lived out in the Henry Mountains and developed the Wolverton mine which I'm sure you've read into, right? JM: Yes, I have some of the information on the Wolverton mine. PB: Did Barbara show you--I've made copies of it, a thousand of them, but I've given them all away. In fact a woman, Edith Marsing, wanted a copy of it and I could remember I had sent a copy to a woman in Phoenix. She said, "What do I do with it?" I said, "Hang onto it; I' 11 get it one day," so Edi th went down there to visit her sister and she went and got that of Wolverton, of Wolverton's material on his mining. Of course he was down under the ledge, you know in--he built the Flint trail and took an oil rig that was originally down on the Colorado River. He hauled it around and took it down the---?--- Trail and it's still down in Ladder Rock Basin. Wolverton, at the time he was in there--either he was remarkably observant which of course he was, or--now I have flown over that country, but I haven't 51 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69s3z2v/1057161 |
