| Title |
Cardon Jones, Blanding, Utah, Uranium History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Cardon Jones, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Jones, Cardon |
| Contributor |
Simon, Suzanne; Erick, Dorothy |
| Date |
1971-07-22 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Jones, Cardon--Interviews; Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--Utah |
| Description |
Transcript (42 pages) of an interview by Suzanne Simon and Dorothy Erick with Cardon Jones, on July 22, 1971. From tape number 126 in the Uranium History Project |
| Abstract |
Suzanne Simon and Dorothy Erick talked with Jones in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: personal background, grandparents in Bluff, first uranium found, Red Canyon claims, Goat Pasture claims, ranching in Colorado, Canyonlands, Escalante Trail, Jacob Adams, Butch Cassidy and Mat Wonger, Joe Bush, Dr. Park, and Howard Williams (42 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
9 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/s69g7twc |
| 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 |
1057802 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69g7twc |
| Title |
Page 12 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057769 |
| OCR Text |
Show Cardon Jones #126 CJ: Yes, the first. DE: How'd you feel about it? CJ: Oh, like any other millionaire I guess. DE: Was it exciting or did you feel it was a gamble or was it hard work? CJ: No, it wasn't hard work. We just rode a horse down there and piled up some rocks and stepped it off you know. It was just a lot of fun as far as a I was concerned. DE: That was a placer? CJ: What? DE: This was a placer not a lode? CJ: Well, I don't know what you mean by that, but it was a lot of ore showing there and there had been a lot more that had been washed away. This was just a little narrow point that was left and the whole big wide canyon had washed away. SS: Then it probably wasn't too difficult to mine it? CJ: No, just go there and shovel it up and loaded it up. There was no, it was open pit, very little overburden. No just went there and shot it up and loosen it up, but they just shot it, loosened it up so they could load it in a truck with a loader about all they had to do. ss: Well, the claims you staked later on, goat pasture claims, did any of them pan out? CJ: Oh we sold some of them to companies around, stock 10 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69g7twc/1057769 |
