| Title |
H. Byron Mock, Salt Lake City, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
H. Byron Mock, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Mock, H. Byron |
| Contributor |
Haddard, Mitch |
| Date |
1970-08-11 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Mock, H. B.--Interviews; Lawyers--Utah--Interviews; Natural resources--Laws and legislation; Uranium industry--United States; Uranium mines and mining--United States |
| Keywords |
Attorneys |
| Description |
Transcript (47 pages) of an interview by Mitch Haddard with H. Byron Mock, on August 11, 1970. From tape number 91 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Mitch Haddard interviewed this Salt Lake City attorney. Subjects: personal background, experience with uranium law, patenting uranium claims, Atomic Energy Commission, large uranium companies, preservation and ecology, marketability test, antiquated mining laws, property, mineral, leasing, and grazing rights (47 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
47 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/s6b87g4m |
| Topic |
Lawyers; Uranium industry; Uranium mines and mining; Natural resources--Law and legislation |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057697 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b87g4m |
| Title |
Page 31 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057678 |
| OCR Text |
Show H. BYRON MOCK #1 surface, the atmosphere, the water, the scenic, the nasal, the auditory, anything you want to bring in starts to be multiplied--not in an arithmetic progression, but in sort of a compounding thing. It's squared rather than a direct. The bigger they are--if they are ten times as big, they may be a hundred times as offensive. Let's put it that way. And the controls of those then become necessary because of the damage to the values of our--well, simplified--of our environment that requires some action. Uranium isn't in that field at this stage. You're seeing the attitudes being directed more toward the fear that we might open up oil shale developments in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. Or the denouncement of a mining operation that happens to be located in the vicinity of beautiful scenery that we would all love to see protected and developed. It could be in the White Clouds area of Idaho, it could be northwest area up, in the state of Washington, it could be up in Alaska. MH: It could be in Utah in the Lake Powell area? HM: It could be in Utah and it could be--we 've had the problem already, not of mining, but of trying to develop a few resort areas over near Flaming Gorge where the public lands have been withheld because they' re afraid the fragility of the area will not 29 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b87g4m/1057678 |
