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Title	Elmer Hurst, Blanding, Utah, Uranium History Series
Alternative Title	Elmer Hurst, Utah Uranium Oral History Project
Creator	Hurst, Elmer
Contributor	Biel, Kathy
Date	1970-07-28
Date Digital	2016-05-04
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Spatial Coverage	Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States
Subject	Hurst, Elmer--Interviews; Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--Utah
Description	Transcript (42 pages) of an interview by Kathy Biel with Elmer Hurst, on July 28, 1970. From tape number 12 in the Uranium History Series
Abstract	Hurst was interviewed by Kathy Biel and Dorothy Erick in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: personal background, mining experience, contracting business, radon levels, Navajo employees and problems, tribal council, superstitions, wages, Navajo leadership, uranium royalties (42 pages).
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Extent	18 pages
Language	eng
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Topic	Uranium miners; Uranium mines and mining
Genre	oral histories (literary works)
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OCR Text	Show HURST PAGE 8 really. KB.: Well, these were depress.ion and way years. Did that men a lot to this territory-? EH: Well, you hear a lot of people talk about how hard it was, but as near as I know, it wasn't too much different here. Folks raised everything--just about everything they ate. They had an orchard, and they canned. Of course, through the war years, sugar and that was on ration stamps, and that made it a little harder to get the sugar for canning, I suppose. But they raised just about everything. We didn't eat much meat when I was a kid. KB .; You didn't raise any cattle or--? EH: We raised pigs all the time. We had cows, but it seemed like we always sold them hefore we butchered them. We milked cows. I think that the families hack then- weTe a lot more self-sustaining than they are now. We'd have to go to the store once a day or twice a day to keep going. That wasn't something they did too much then, and if they did, why, they'd exchange. They done a lot--some of them did more exchanging produce, or some of them did more exchanging produce, or some products and different things to get it. And, of course, coming from a big family, why a lot of this was a necessity in order to make ends meet. We did our own canning, baking, making bread, and this, which my Mother always
Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6z62w17/1057478