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Interview with Mr. Fred Voll
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Margolis, Eric, 1947-
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Coal mines and mining
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Utah--Helper
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Coal miners
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The interview begins with a screening of the short film, "Helper on Parade". Mr. Voll names numerous people seen in the film. Also seen are: an arch and underpass leading into town, the fire engine, the "balance rock" formation on cliff at edge of town, the school, local newspaper, local grocer, the bank, service station, barber shop, the Castle Gate rock formation outside of town. The film shows loading of coal into trucks at the Spring Canyon Coal Co. The mines used gravity to move coal cars. Also seen are the Standardville school, bakery, 1940 footage of a new car, the furniture store, dairy, a sweet shop/theatre, and the railroad roundhouse. Railroad footage ends ~ 20:30. Voll discusses screening of the movie for longtime residents. We see a slide-show about the coal industry in Carbon County, Utah, including coal seams , Castle Gate -- where Butch Cassidy robbed the payroll at the oldest continuously-used mine office in the U.S. All the mining equipment has now been removed. The town was named Helper because it was the place where engines were added, to get the train up the hill. Also seen are views of the company town of Standardville (almost all now removed), views of Sunnyside (served by Rio Grande RR), close-ups of the "balanced rock" formation, a photo of the "Big John" mythical figure, the town hospital, steam power plant, and Scofield, Utah. Mr. Voll describes the murals seen in the Helper Coal Mining Museum: they show the settlement of Winter Quarters, early hand-mining with picks, hand-drilling, and the first railroad from Springville to Tucker. This was a "cut-back" track: the engine would go up to the first curve and then back up along the next leg of the slope. Murals also shoe the coke ovens at Sunnyside ("bee-hives" which were then the largest coke ovens in the world). The video ends with no audio -- just footage of a photo of a child in miner's gear (holding a pick and smoking a pipe) and footage of U.M.W.A ribbons/awards.
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The interview begins with a screening of the short film, "Helper on Parade". Mr. Voll names numerous people seen in the film. Also seen are: an arch and underpass leading into town, the fire engine, the "balance rock" formation on cliff at edge of town, the school, local newspaper, local grocer, the bank, service station, barber shop, the Castle Gate rock formation outside of town. The film shows loading of coal into trucks at the Spring Canyon Coal Co. The mines used gravity to move coal cars. Also seen are the Standardville school, bakery, 1940 footage of a new car, the furniture store, dairy, a sweet shop/theatre, and the railroad roundhouse. Railroad footage ends ~ 20:30. Voll discusses screening of the movie for longtime residents. We see a slide-show about the coal industry in Carbon County, Utah, including coal seams , Castle Gate -- where Butch Cassidy robbed the payroll at the oldest continuously-used mine office in the U.S. All the mining equipment has now been removed. The town was named Helper because it was the place where engines were added, to get the train up the hill. Also seen are views of the company town of Standardville (almost all now removed), views of Sunnyside (served by Rio Grande RR), close-ups of the "balanced rock" formation, a photo of the "Big John" mythical figure, the town hospital, steam power plant, and Scofield, Utah. Mr. Voll describes the murals seen in the Helper Coal Mining Museum: they show the settlement of Winter Quarters, early hand-mining with picks, hand-drilling, and the first railroad from Springville to Tucker. This was a "cut-back" track: the engine would go up to the first curve and then back up along the next leg of the slope. Murals also shoe the coke ovens at Sunnyside ("bee-hives" which were then the largest coke ovens in the world). The video ends with no audio -- just footage of a photo of a child in miner's gear (holding a pick and smoking a pipe) and footage of U.M.W.A ribbons/awards.
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(Transcript available starting at 17:18) 10:00 -- viewing film "Helper on Parade" 20:00 -- continue viewing film 30:00 -- viewing slide-show about the coal industry in Carbon County, Utah 40:00 -- continue viewing slide-show about the coal industry in Helper, Utah 50:00 -- slide-show continues, including views of cemetery 60:00 -- viewing murals showing development of the coal industry in Utah
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(Transcript available starting at 17:18) 10:00 -- viewing film "Helper on Parade" 20:00 -- continue viewing film 30:00 -- viewing slide-show about the coal industry in Carbon County, Utah 40:00 -- continue viewing slide-show about the coal industry in Helper, Utah 50:00 -- slide-show continues, including views of cemetery 60:00 -- viewing murals showing development of the coal industry in Utah
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University of Colorado Boulder Archives
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Voll, Fred W., 1896-1991
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Date:
1978-04-26
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Helper (Carbon, Utah, United States, North America) (populated place)
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1922/1978
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Carbon County (Utah, United States, North America) (civil)
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