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Horace M. Albright was a mining lawyer and executive for the US Potash Company and US Borax from 1933 to 1962. Albright originally left the National Park Service to become president of U.S. Potash in 1933. He attended the University of California Berkeley from 1908 to 1913 for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. In this interview, Albright discusses changes in mining law and education, being the executive head for U.S. Potash, reflections on well known mining families Cramer, Boyd and Searls, time at UC Berkeley, national parks and mining, potash mining in Carlsbad, New Mexico, his work week, hiring Hispanic workers, and relations with mine unions. Appended 184 pages from Reminiscences of Horace Albright, Columbia University Oral History Office interview, 1962.