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Oral History Interview with Bill Brill, 1982 June 30, 2006
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Identifier: BHS-SCA-018
Abstract
Bill Brill came to work for CF&I in 1926 in the engineering department. He came to help build the twenty-five inch mill. He also made changes in the fourteen inch mill. He helped build the rod mill in 1954, and the shell plant that made shells for World War II. Later he also helped build the grader blade mill. Also worked in the blast furnace area. Had trouble designing furnaces when natural gas came into the picture in 1928. Brill also built a blast furnace in Wilmington, Deleware, but...
Dates:
1982 June 30; Digitization: 2006
Oral History Interview with Bob McCannon, 1985 June 12, 2006
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Identifier: BHS-SCA-005
Abstract
Robert (Bob) McCannon came to Pueblo, Colorado and CF&I in 1954 as a junior mine engineer in the mining department. In 1955, he went to Sunrise, Wyoming as a mining engineer. Next McCannon went to the Comstock Mine in Utah where he became the resident engineer in 1962. McCannon returned to the Sunrise Mine in 1968 as the mine's superintendent. One of his jobs was the terminator of assets. McCannon was employed at Sunrise until it shut down in 1980, and the assets were auctioned off in...
Dates:
1985 June 12; Digitization: 2006
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Fernandez, 1989 September 27, 2006
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Identifier: BHS-SCA-010
Dates:
1989 September 27; Digitization: 2006
Oral History Interview with Harold A. Christie and William Brill, 1982 June 9, 2006
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Identifier: BHS-SCA-013
Dates:
1982 June 9; Digitization: 2006
Oral History Interview with James G. Wark, 1985 June 11, 2006
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Identifier: BHS-SCA-003
Abstract
James G. Wark started in the CF&I mining department in 1958 and became a manager of mines on January 1, 1980. Wark then became the head of Evergreen Resources, a subsidiary of CF&I,which sold off chunks of CF&I property in the 1970s.
Dates:
1985 June 11; Digitization: 2006
Oral History Interview with Mildred Sweet, 1981 July 16
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Identifier: B098.01.0003.00065
Abstract
"Mildred (nee Lewin) Sweet discusses her parents’ early days in Colorado, first in Leadville, then Salida, and finally Denver. She describes the many ventures that her father was involved in while in Denver, for example, the liquor store business and his many ventures in the amusement park business in western Denver, including Lakeside Amusement Park. She relates memories of her childhood and growing up in the privileged lifestyle that her father created for his family. She recounts her...
Dates:
1981 July 16