| 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 |
| Access Rights |
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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). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
18 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/s6z62w17 |
| 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 |
1057513 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6z62w17 |
| Title |
Page 12 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057480 |
| OCR Text |
Show HURST PAGE 10 a bit. And I don't know what the people are doing. I guess they've moved out. There's really--people who go to school here have very little here to keep them--to draw them to Blanding. They have to go elsewhere to make a living. The worst part about this town is they all leave. DE: Now when these other people came in during the years of the 1950's, did the families who were here, the established families, accept these newcomers? EH: Yes, I think so. I went through school with some--in some classes with some of the newcomers. But it seems like people, I don't know how do you say it--from my observation of people it's kind of like water that finds its own leve. People will make up with people they feel comfortable with. And a lot of them people didn't feel comfortable mixing with the local people here and vice versa maybe, I don't know. DE: But it did bring in more business? EH.: Yes, it brought in more business, and a lot. Well, when you consider the boom and different phases of it like prospecting, and drilling, and processing, and this type of thing, why, it brought in quite a few people. KB": Well, then you worked for ten dollars a day, you said, when you started out. EH: Yeah. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6z62w17/1057480 |
