| 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 24 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057492 |
| OCR Text |
Show HURST PAGE 22 not concerned with this. They're not having tabs kept on them like that right now, but with our lease with Atlas, why, we have to more or less comply with it. I don't know if they would ever run us out of underground. I know they have some men over in their mines that they've developed to the point where they have exceeded the underground hours per year by the code that the federal has set up. KB.: Now the federal government is making its standards higher, and yet they're planning on getting out of the control of the uranium. What does this mean? EH: I don't know. This is the one phase of the mining business that you might say is in opposition to all things. If something is real good, it's got to have a drawback. I think the government, in this respect, is a good thing. But I'd have to say there is some opposition there. They're more or less telling you that you can only mine so many hours because you're going to get lung cancer, and you've got to ventilate it to this level for your health. Well, if they just tell us the hazards of it, that'd be all right with me. And we've even told the mine inspectors that we was going to put a sign above the mine that read, ''Caution, Mining--Uranium Mining May B£ Hazardous to Your Health''. The mine inspectors come around telling you all the hazards of lung cancer while they're smoking doesn't make a very good impression to me. I feel like their health is their business, and if they want to smoke, that's fine. But I |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6z62w17/1057492 |
