| Title |
Windord Bunce, Moab, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Winford Bunce, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Bunce, Winfred |
| Contributor |
Guttman, Steve; Donnely, John |
| Date |
1970-07-29 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Moab, Grand County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Uranium industry--United States; Bunce, Winford--Interviews; Lumber-yards--United States; County officials and employees--Utah |
| Description |
Transcript (47 pages) of an interview by Steve Guttman and John Donnely with Winford Bunce, on July 29, 1970. From tape number 29 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Bunce, who was a county commissioner during the uranium boom, spoke with Steve Guttman and John Donnely. Subjects: jobs, problems as county commissioner, new jobs in uranium boom, bonds, current problems in Moab, future of Moab, Moab in 1930, penny stocks, lumber business, growth of Moab, accidents (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/s641944z |
| Topic |
County officials and employees; Uranium industry; Lumber-yards |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1058629 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s641944z |
| Title |
Page 20 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1058598 |
| OCR Text |
Show WINFORD BUNCE //1 rec order's office and the increase in taxes that we had gathered, the levy kept going down, but the valuation went up fast eno ugh so we were still getting more money. So we did build that thing just out of current revenues. SG: Do you know if the city at this time had to release any bonds to cover some of their expenses? WB: Not current expenses they didn't, they bonded for water and sewer. Fact is, I think the last bond issue they had was for $1.25 million. But the city, to meet their quick expenses, went into this 1 percent gross license on all sales. SG: And this was able to cover most of their--? WB: This is what saved 'em. Then they went into parking meters, which, of course, when the parking meters were paid for, why, they didn't make 'em a dime. I don't know that it ever got to be too much of a revenue deal. But the parking was terrible. See, the road didn't go straight out at all like it does now. It went to the First Security Bank, and then up this street, Center there. And the parking was so congested down in the couple of blocks in town that you just couldn't drive. People would pull up there and parked and stayed all day. They'd say, "I gotta go here and here and here," so they'd just leave their cars. If they moved, they couldn't get another parking place. And the post office 16 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s641944z/1058598 |
