Arthur L. Crawford papers, 1899-1980s
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Crawford, Arthur L. (Arthur Lorenzo), 1899-1980
- Title
- Arthur L. Crawford papers
- Dates
- 1899-1980s (inclusive)18991989
- Quantity
- 4 linear feet, (12 boxes)
- Collection Number
- MS 0364
- Summary
- The Arthur L. Crawford papers (1899-1980s) contain personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts and articles pertaining to mineral resources in Utah, bound volumes on geology and flood problems, Western Gilsonite and Elaterite Co. financial records, Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey (UGMS) administrative records, and the missionary journals of Crawford's father.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
Crawford (1899-1980) was a founding member and assistant director of the UGMS and a faculty member at both the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. In addition, he was the commissioner of the Utah State Department of Publicity and Industrial Development.
Content Description
The Arthur L. Crawford papers (1899-1980s) contain personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts and articles pertaining to mineral resources in Utah, bound volumes on geology and flood problems, Western Gilsonite and Elaterite Co. financial records, Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey (UGMS) administrative records, and the missionary journals of Crawford's father. Many of the manuscripts and articles were authored by Arthur Crawford.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
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Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative Information
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Processing Note
Processed by Robert Walker in 1983.
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Separated Materials
See also the Arthur L. Crawford photograph collection (P0022) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Mineral Resources of Utah
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Alunite-Copper
This series contains mostly manuscripts and articles, but some correspondence, maps, certificates of assay, notes, and other materials may also be found therein.
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Description: Alunite and Aluminum
"Alunite and Its Products" and "Alunite, Hitherto Undetected in the Silicified Lavas of the San Francisco District, Utah."
Container: Box 1, Folder 1-2 -
Description: Amazon Stone
"Amazon Stone: A New Variety of Feldspar for Utah."
Container: Box 1, Folder 3 -
Description: Antimony
"Antimony" and "Antimony Finds Major Use as Lead Alloy."
Container: Box 1, Folder 4 -
Description: Asbestos
"Tremolite Deposits of the Mineral Range, Millard County, Utah."
Container: Box 1, Folder 5 -
Description: Asphalt-Argulite and Bituminous Sandstone
"Argulite and Bituminous Sandstone," "Bituminous Sandstone Near Vernal, Utah," "Memorandum on Coal, Oil Shale Bituminous Sandstones," and "The Brown Dyke Mining Claims."
Container: Box 1, Folder 6 -
Description: Barite
"Barite" and "Potential Barite Producers, Utah and Nevada."
Container: Box 1, Folder 7 -
Description: Beryllium
"Beryllium in Utah" and "Beryllium Use Varied and of Distinct Value."
Container: Box 1, Folder 8 -
Description: Bismuth
"Mining Bismuth in Utah."
Container: Box 1, Folder 9 -
Description: Carbon Dioxide
"Memorandum on Carbon Dioxide Gas in Utah" and "Testimony of Ed H. Watson."
Container: Box 1, Folder 10 -
Description: Celestite
"Salina Creek District," "Strontium Mineral Production Declined in the United States in 1942," "The Occurence of Celestite on the San Rafael Swell," and "Celestite."
Container: Box 1, Folder 11-12 -
Description: Chlorine
"The Advisability of Establishing a Chlorine Plant in the Vicinity of Salt Lake City."
Container: Box 1, Folder 13 -
Description: Clay
"Potential Bentonite Producers in Utah," "Western Fire Clay," "Clay Samples, Assay List," "The Edwards Kaolin Deposit," and "Notes on the Silver Isle Halloysite Deposit, Tooele County, Utah."
Container: Box 1, Folder 14-17 -
Description: Coal
"Degredation Studies of the 'D' Dip Coal Geneva Mine, Horse Canyon, Utah Mobile Loading, Advance Mining" and "The Coking Coals of Utah."
Container: Box 1, Folder 18-20 -
Description: Copper
"Sedimentary Succession in the Logan Quadrangle, Utah and Vicinity," "Copper Blossom Mine," "Microscopic Characteristics of the Rio Tinto, Nevada, Copper Deposit," "The Rio Tinto Copper Discovery Near Mountain City, Nevada," "Assays in Disseminated Copper Deposits," "Application of Microscopy to Core Drill," and "A Microscopic Analysis of the Leached Dumps of the Utah Copper Company."
Container: Box 1, Folder 21-24
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Dolomite-Gilsonite
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Description: DolomiteContainer: Box 2, Folder 1
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Description: Fluorite and Fluorspar
"The Fluorspare Deposits of the Wildcat Mountains," "Fluorite in Utah," "Fluorspar," and "Fluorite."
Container: Box 2, Folder 2-4 -
Description: Gilsonite
"The Hydrocarbons of 'The Moffat Road,'" "Gilsonite," "Composition of Gilsonite," "Oil-Shale Resources of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming," "Asphalts and Allied Substances," "Uintahite: A New Variety of Asphaltum from the Uintah Mountains Utah," "Uintah, Albertite, Grahamite, and Asphaltum Described and Compared, with Observations on Bitumen and Its Compounds," "Gilsonite Deposits of the Uintah Basin," "Gilsonite or Uintaite," "Investigation of Utah Gilsonite, a Variety of Asphalt," "Missing Gilsonite in Utah," "Gilsonite mining in Utah Expands," "Hydro-Carbon Wealth of the State of Utah," "Gilsonite," "The Hydrocarbons," "Extract from Tenth Census (1880) of the United States," "Utah's Famous Gilsonite Mines," "Gilsonite and Grahamite," "The Modern Asphalt Pavement," "Gilsonite, a Utah Product," "Testimony of Arthur L. Crawford Pertaining to Gilsonite and Related Hydrocarbons in Utah," and "Gilsonite and Related Hydrocarbons from the Uinta Basin, Utah."
Container: Box 2, Folder 5-17
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Gold-Lead
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Description: Gold
"Note Regarding a Recent Inspection of the Hoskaninni Company's Gold Placer Property in the Glen Canyon of the Colorado River, Utah," "Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, Bully Boy Mine," "Paragenesis and Geology of the Bulley Boy Mine, Piute County, Utah," "Microscopic Investigation of Two Types of Gold Ore from the Red Cross Mine, California," "An Application of Microscopy for Evaluating the Gold in Certain Utah Placers," "Gold, Some Microscopic Features Affecting Its Recoverability," "Is Gold Isotropic?" "The Occurence of Gold in Old Cyanide Dumps," "Flotation Significance of Microscopic Properties of Gold from Various Stages in Ball Mill Grinding," "A Microscopic Study of Certain Placer Gold from Gold Creek, Montana," and "Some Physiographic and Geologic Features Affecting the Origin and Concentration of Placer Gold Along Gold Creek, Montana."
Container: Box 3, Folder 1-4 -
Description: GuanoContainer: Box 3, Folder 5
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Description: Gypsum
"Gypsum and Magnesium."
Container: Box 3, Folder 6 -
Description: Halloysite
"Notes on the Halloysite Deposits of Mineral Mountain, Washington County, Utah," "Petrographic Descriptions," and "Halloysite of Agalmatoilite Type Bull Valley District, Washington County, Utah."
Container: Box 3, Folder 7-8 -
Description: Iron
"Wah Wah Range," "Iron Ore from Iron Peak," "The Southern End of the Wah Wah Range," "The Martite Iron Deposits," "Feasibility and Need of Expanding Pig Iron Capacity in Utah," "Iron," "Factors Which Will Determine the Postwar Pattern of the Iron and Steel Industry in Utah," and "Comparative Freight Rates from Steel Producing Centers of the Pacific Coast."
Container: Box 3, Folder 9-14 -
Description: Kyanite
"Kyanite Schists of Grouse Creek Range Box Elder County, Utah."
Container: Box 3, Folder 15 -
Description: Lead
"Moscow Mine" and "Report Santa Silver Mining Company."
Container: Box 3, Folder 16-17
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Magnesite-Sulfur
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Description: MagnesiteContainer: Box 4, Folder 1-2
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Description: Magnesium
"Miscellaneous Data for a Magnesium Plant Near Great Salt Lake," "Magnesium," and "The Occurence of Magnesium Sulphate."
Container: Box 4, Folder 3-5 -
Description: Manganese
"Fred Staats Manganese" and "Manganese Deposits Northwest of Panguitch, Utah."
Container: Box 4, Folder 6-8 -
Description: Mercury
"Unusual Microscopic Features of Newly Discovered Mercury Ore."
Container: Box 4, Folder 9 -
Description: MicaContainer: Box 4, Folder 10
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Description: Molybdenite
"Molybdenite."
Container: Box 4, Folder 11 -
Description: Molybdenum
"The Molybdenum deposits of White Pine Canyon."
Container: Box 4, Folder 12 -
Description: Oil Shale
"The Oil Shale Retort."
Container: Box 4, Folder 13 -
Description: PerliteContainer: Box 4, Folder 14
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Description: Phosphate
"The Phosphate Industry."
Container: Box 4, Folder 15 -
Description: Potash
"The Recovery of Potash from the Bonneville Deposits of Utah."
Container: Box 4, Folder 16 -
Description: Salt
"Comparison Between the Great Utah Salt Deposits and Those of Stassfurt in the Prussian Province of Saxony" and "The Salt Project of the Deseret Livestock Company."
Container: Box 4, Folder 17 -
Description: Salt
"Sulfur in Wyoming" and "Sulfur Samples Submitted by H. Foster Bain."
Container: Box 4, Folder 18-19
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Tungsten-Miscellaneous
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Description: Tungsten
"The Tungsten Pipe of the Reaper Mine," "Tungsten Deposits of the Gold Hill District and Vicinity," "Certain Tungsten Deposits of the Mineral Range, Beaver County, Utah," "The Metals Coalition Tungsten Mine," "Tungsten Deposits of the Grouse Creek Range, Box Elder County, Utah," and "Tungsten Claims Near New Klondike Placer Mining Company."
Container: Box 5, Folder 1-11 -
Description: Uranium and Vanadium
"Uranium Occurence and Development in the Utah-Colorado Plateau Region," "Henry Mountain Region Deposits in Sedimentary Rocks," and "The Occurence of Vanadium."
Container: Box 5, Folder 12-14 -
Description: Vermiculite
"Probable Non-meteor Origin of the Crater-like Depressions on Birch Creek Raft River Mountains, Utah."
Container: Box 5, Folder 15 -
Description: Zinc
"Moscow Mine Western Beaver County, Utah."
Container: Box 5, Folder 16 -
Description: MiscellaneousContainer: Box 5, Folder 17
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Papers by Arthur L. Crawford and others
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Description: "Two Basal Cambrian Sections West of Morgan, Utah"Container: Box 6, Folder 1
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Description: "Suitability of Certain Rock Specimens for Making Portland Cement"Container: Box 6, Folder 2
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Description: "The Occurence of Rare Metals in Certain Ores of the Clifton District, Utah"Container: Box 6, Folder 3
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Description: "Procedure Used for Investigating Utah Copper Mill Products of March 1929"Container: Box 6, Folder 4
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Description: "The Occurence and Possible Economic Value of Diatomaceous Earth in Utah"Container: Box 6, Folder 5
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Description: "The Occurence and Use of Diatomaceous Earth in Utah"Container: Box 6, Folder 6
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Description: "Diatomaceous Marl"Container: Box 6, Folder 7
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Description: "The Fuller's Earth Deposit Near Aurora, Utah"Container: Box 6, Folder 8
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Description: "Association and Paragenesis of [?] and Gangue Minerals at the Great Silver-lead Mines, Fresnillo, Mexico"Container: Box 6, Folder 9
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Description: "Bertrandite, Beryl and Other Economic Minerals of the Grover Pegmatite"Container: Box 6, Folder 10
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Description: "Possible Markets"Container: Box 6, Folder 11
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Description: "Mineralogical Interpretation of Chemical Data in Metallurgical Operations"Container: Box 6, Folder 12
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Description: "Partially Assimilated Metaquartzites in the Archean Mass East of Boutiful, Utah"Container: Box 6, Folder 13
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Description: "The Meteorite Discovery in 1938, Near Evanston, Wyoming" and "The Microscope as a 'Trouble Shooter' in Selecting Water Filters"Container: Box 6, Folder 14
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Description: "Sidelights on the Technique of Ore Dressing Microscopy"Container: Box 6, Folder 15
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Description: "Mineral Potentials" and "Mineral Potentials on Utah State Lands"Container: Box 6, Folder 16
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Description: "Preliminary Notes on the Mollusca of Lake Bonneville"Container: Box 6, Folder 17
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Description: "The Nonmetallics of Utah" and "Classification of Non-Metallic Products According to Origin and Uses"Container: Box 6, Folder 18
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Description: "Mineragraphy and Paragenesis of the Ore of the Park City Consolidated Mine, Park City, Utah"Container: Box 6, Folder 19
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Description: "Location and Design of Underground Storage for Petroleum Products in Utah"Container: Box 6, Folder 20
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Description: "Feldspar Phenocrysts in the Cottonwood Granodiorite, Replacements of Their Fine-grained Associates"Container: Box 6, Folder 21
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Description: "Canada's New Source of Radium"Container: Box 6, Folder 22
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Description: "Hunting Sapphires in Utah"Container: Box 6, Folder 23
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Description: "Utah"Container: Box 6, Folder 24
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Description: "Notes on the Geology and Mineralogy of the Property of the Wellington Mining Company"Container: Box 6, Folder 25
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Western Gilsonite and Elaterite Company
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Description: Minute BookContainer: Box 7, Folder 1
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Description: ProspectusContainer: Box 7, Folder 2
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Description: Financial RecordsContainer: Box 7, Folder 3-4
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Description: Trial Balance Record BookContainer: Box 7, Volume 1
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Description: LedgersContainer: Box 7, Volume 2
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Description: Check StubsContainer: Box 8, Volume 1
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Description: LedgersContainer: Box 8, Volume 2
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Description: Financial RecordsContainer: Box 8, Volume 3
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Utah Geological and Mineralogical Administrative Survey
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Description: HistoryContainer: Box 9, Folder 1-2
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Description: MinutesDates: 1949-1961Container: Box 9, Folder 3
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Description: Memoranda from Alfred M. BuranekContainer: Box 9, Folder 4-7
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Description: Statement to the Advisory BoardContainer: Box 9, Volume 1
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Description: "The Utah Engineering Experiment Station of the University of Utah"Container: Box 9, Volume 2
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Description: Intermountain Bureau of Mines Experiment Station ReportDates: 1931Container: Box 9, Volume 3
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Description: Prospectors' Service RecordContainer: Box 9, Volume 4
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Description: Economic Minerals Locality and MarketsContainer: Box 9, Volume 5
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Geology and Flood Problems
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Description: Utah's Flood ProblemDates: 1933Container: Box 10, Volume 1
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Description: The Sevier Lake Marl Deposit Millard County, UtahContainer: Box 10, Volume 2
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Description: A Preliminary Examination of the Freuburg Group and Adjacent Mining Claims Near Marysvale, UtahContainer: Box 10, Volume 3
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Journals and Biographies
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Description: George McIntosh Troup Crawford Clan RecordContainer: Box 11, Volume 1
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Description: Arthur D. Crawford JournalsContainer: Box 11, Volume 2
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General Materials
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Description: Petrographic ReportsContainer: Box 12, Folder 1-5
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Description: Shem Smelter, CorrespondenceContainer: Box 12, Folder 6-9
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Description: CorrespondenceContainer: Box 12, Folder 10-11
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Description: ReportsContainer: Box 12, Folder 12
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Description: Maps and Negatives of Mineral SitesContainer: Box 12, Folder 13
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Description: Miscellaneous WritingsContainer: Box 12, Folder 14-15
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Latter Day Saints--Missionary experiences--Oklahoma
- Latter Day Saints--Missions--Oklahoma
- Mines and Mineral Resources
- Mines and Mineral Resources--Utah
Personal Names
- Crawford, Arthur D.--Diaries
- Crawford, Arthur L. (Arthur Lorenzo), 1899-1980--Archives
Corporate Names
- Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey
- Western Gilsonite and Elaterite Company
Form or Genre Terms
- Administrative records
- Articles
- Business records
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Notes (documents)
