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Sands, California - station facilities, 1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 21 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Moapa, Nevada - station facilities, 1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 23 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Lease to Pioche Mines Company, 1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 94 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Lease to J.R. Williams, 1938-1942
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 94 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Lease to John Vianassa, 1938-1942
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 94 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Lease to James Measures, 1938-1939
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 94 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Lease to Olaf Nelson, 1938-1939
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 94 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Lease to Citizen’s Utilities Company, 1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 94 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Lease to Nevada Beverage Company, 1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 94 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Hugh Shirkey oral history interview
Identifier
Abstract
Oral history interview with Hugh Shirkey conducted by Patricia van Betten on February 04, 2010 for the History of Blue Diamond Village in Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, Shirkey discusses his personal history and arriving to Blue Diamond, Nevada in 1950. He talks about his employment at the Blue Diamond Mine as an electrician. Shirkey describes what life was like at the village as a single worker, the development of the mining plant, how the plant was managed, and traveling to Las Vegas, Nevada. Lastly, Shirkey recalls moving to Las Vegas and retiring from the mining plant.
Archival Collection