Building the Clarkson Company, making reagent feeders and valves for the mineral industry, 1935-1998
By: 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,
Contributors: Swent, Eleanor.; Clarkson, Cutis W.; DeMoss, Edwin C.; Clarkson, Edna Mae Evans.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1999
Subjects: Clarkson Company (Palo Alto, Calif.); 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.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.
Description: 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.

includes biographical material and Clarkson Company information and clippings, and correspondence regarding Tony Mecia.