| Title |
Gilmor C. Ritter, Grand Junction, Colorado, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Gilmor C. Ritter, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Ritter, Gilmor C. |
| Contributor |
Gibbs, Richard; Brolin, Greg |
| Date |
1970-07-21 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, United States |
| Subject |
Ritter, Gilmor C.--Interviews; Uranium miners--Colorado--Interviews; Uranium ores--Colorado Plateau; Uranium mines and mining--Colorado; Uranium industry--United States |
| Keywords |
Atomic Energy Commission; Union Mines Survey |
| Description |
Transcript (31 pages) of an interview by Richard Gibbs and Greg Brolin with Gilmor Ritter, on July 21, 1970. From tape number 77 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Richard Gibbs and Greg Brolin interviewed Ritter at the AEC compound in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: Union Mines Survey, early years on the Colorado Plateau, qualifications for obtaining and AEC lease, disadvantages of an AEC lease, uranium ore purchasing policy, experience in the uranium industry (31 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
31 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/s6mk8kwp |
| Topic |
Uranium miners; Uranium industry; Uranium mines and mining; Uranium ores |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057440 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mk8kwp |
| Title |
Page 33 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057438 |
| OCR Text |
Show pag 31 R: uranium producing areas. In 1952 the price of lead went to pot, and my markets for equipment in the base metal industries just evaporated and so I was forced to devote almost all of my time to this brand new uranium mining industry. So I got out here in 1951, '52 and '53. I got a pretty good overview of the area. I knew where the mines were because I was there unloading equipment as fast as I could. I left this company early in '53 and went to work for Garwood and Gerlach who were the leasers on Charley Steen's property, the Mi Vida. I took over as chief engineer and superintendant, combined title,just about the time they holed into the ore bodies, from the downhill side of the bre body. I worked there for several months and then came to work for the Commission in mid '53. I worked as an examining engineer under the initial Production Bonus Program, Circililar Six, for about a year. Then they created a title of 'Staff Engineer' in the ore buying section, and I was it, the section under staff engineer for some months. They finally decided that since the government was actually buying crude ore it should be doing the contracting and not be contractor. So we set me up as a section, and I got four engineers all at once and we started writing contracts and buying ore in Monticello and Marysville, and I think it was Grants, the first three locations that we were operating out of. This section later developed into the ore buying branch and we had as high as nine buying points operating at one time. We had at one time over six hundred ore purchase contracts. Oh, it was coming in all over. Since 1958 I have been in this division, and my prime purpose has been in the |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mk8kwp/1057438 |
