| Title |
Leonard Shield, Price, Utah, Carbon County oral history project, Nos. 22 and 23, April 14, 1983 |
| Creator |
Shield, Leonard |
| Contributor |
Taniguchi, Nancy; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1983-04-14 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-28 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Carbon County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5536454 |
| Access Rights |
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| Subject |
Shield, Leonard--Interviews; Carbon County (Utah); Coal mines and mining--Utah; Coal mine accidents--Utah |
| Description |
The interview with Leonard Shield covers the subjects of his background, railroad transportation experiences, growing up in Hiawatha, the Castle Gate mine explosion, the 1928 Kennilworth explosion and rescue operations, experiences at Mohrland, coal mining experiences, Union activities, his father's experiences as Utah State Mine Inspector, and mining at the Peacock and Milburn mine. The Carbon County oral history project (1972-1993) consists of oral histories from residents of Carbon County, Utah. While the main emphasis is on living in coal mine country, the interviews are verbal snapshots of rural Utah life from the earliest settlers to as recently as 1993. |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn1479, Carbon County oral history project, 1972-1993 |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv38397 |
| 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/s6k66mh9 |
| Topic |
Utah--Carbon County; Coal mines and mining; Coal mine accidents |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Setname |
uum_ccoh |
| ID |
783629 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6k66mh9 |
| Title |
Page 59 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ccoh |
| ID |
783608 |
| OCR Text |
Show LEONARD SHIELD APRIL 14, 1983 inspecting and then he came home that night and they got a telephone call from Salt Lake, "You are not to shut that mine down!" So they worked under conditions , you see they had explosions there which he knew in mining knew that it was unsafe, that they shouldn't have any men in there. In fact, he told them, he said, "This mine is closed down , there is nobody going to work." Well , when you get instruction from Salt Lake , the company just called in the main office and they had to pull in there and so what good is an inspector NT That ' s true , did he ever talk about any of the frustrations involved? LS Oh yes, in many of the mines the same thing. As I said , there is no sense in me knocking my head against the wall because it does no good because they did, they had pull enough with whoever was in industrial commission at that time One of the big companies maybe slipped them a little money and that's all that was necessary MSL Should I go change the water? LS Oh yes , maybe you better NT Did your dad feel sorry when he had to leave the job of mine inspector? LS No, he really didn't. NT Well, how did he feel about having to work in mines though knowing that they might be unsafe? 57 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6k66mh9/783608 |
