| 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 62 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ccoh |
| ID |
783611 |
| OCR Text |
Show LEONARD SHIELD APRIL 14, 1983 there between us by the time I get out there and well like I use to have a pickup and I would go out there and we'd haul coal for myself and for him over there and for the family. NT How tough was it to make ends meet during the Depression? LS Well , it was very tough , by golly even there now like I say I bought a truck and was hauling coal. People that had money would put you off , oh, it was hard to get money out of them . People, the working people that didn't have it they would take their last penny to pay you In fact, they would charge say three and a half a ton for nut coal and five dollars a ton for lump coal and they would buy one ton at a time, those people that couldn't afford it Three and a half, it took everything they had to pay for it. Those that had it all right and some of them I never did get my money. (Laughter) I don't know, it's funny how people that have money are so hard to get it out off. NT Yes , maybe that's why they still have it (Laughter) LS Yes, that's probably it But it was and then the banks closed and I hauled coal all the time and I received checks, I had a handful of checks but I couldn't cash them but I figured that if the banks were open one day they would be good which they were but boy I had a lot of checks before it finally opened though It was very hard, there were so many men out of work and like I say the 60 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6k66mh9/783611 |
