| 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 48 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1058626 |
| OCR Text |
Show WINFORD BUNCE 1/1 JD: How about your school districts? You have some certain school districts around here set up for assessment don't you? WB: Well, yeah. The school district puts on their own mill levy. What they do, everybody in the city, and the school district, or any other taxing districts sets their levy and turns them over to the county. The county takes them and sends them to the state, and gets them approved, and then that becomes your total tax levy. See, we set our levy the other night so we have to fill out the little form and give it to the county clerk. The county clerk takes it theirs, outs, the school district's, the fire district, and sends them into the state. The state approves them and then they make up the tax levy. JD: When you think of the future, do you think that Moab will--because of the nuclear reactors, do you think that it will be a mining industry? Do you think that this will have a big part to play in Moab's future, the peaceful use of atomic energy? WB: Oh, I think uranium definitely will. I don't think there's any question about that. Uranium's here to stay. And they got this new mine opening up out here in Lisbon. This Rio Alto? JD: Right, the Canadian. WB: Sure, it's going to be a big outfit. And people are going 44 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s641944z/1058626 |
