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Building the Clarkson Company, making reagent feeders and valves for the mineral industry, 1935-1998 : oral history transcript / 1999.
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Title:

Building the Clarkson Company, making reagent feeders and valves for the mineral industry, 1935-1998 : oral history transcript / 1999
Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series

Creator/Contributor:

Clarkson, John Robert, 1910-, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Swent, Eleanor, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Clarkson, Cutis W.

Creator/Contributor:

DeMoss, Edwin C.

Creator/Contributor:

Clarkson, Edna Mae Evans.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Pioneer Idaho family background, World War I and influenza, Great Depression; Meadow Creek Mine, ID, stibnite metallurgy, developing a dependable reagent feeder for flotation process; marketing through American Cyanamid, 1936; construction and management of mines and mills in California and Arizona, 1934-1942; meeting urgent World War II demand for tungsten, Stibnite, ID, 1942-1952; Clarkson Company, Palo Alto, CA, 1952-1980, manufacturing feeders, centriclones, constriction and gate valves; company move to Sparks, NV; mechanization, computerization, expansion of family-owned business. Appendix includes wife Edna Clarkson's written recollections of mining life during the Depression.

Date:

1999 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca -- n-usp--
Industrialists -- California -- Interviews
Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.)
Mining machinery industry -- California -- Palo Alto
Mining machinery industry -- California
Mining machinery industry -- Idaho -- Stebnite
Mining machinery industry -- Arizona
Industriels -- Californie -- Entretiens
Machines minières -- Industrie -- Californie -- Palo Alto
Machines minières -- Industrie -- Californie
Machines minières -- Industrie -- Arizona
Mining machinery industry
Mines and mineral resources
Industrialists
West United States
California -- Palo Alto
California
Arizona
Clarkson Company (Palo Alto, Calif.)

Note:

John Robert Clarkson ; with introductions by Curtis W. Clarkson and Edwin C. DeMoss ; interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1997 and 1998. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of: Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3084 C:1-19.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

biography
Interviews.
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 volume (xxi, 381 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm
19 audiocassettes

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.