Abstract Henry Elling was a banker in Virginia City, Montana, with extensive mercantile, mining, and ranching interests. Collection consists primarily of incoming correspondence (1864-1881). There is one outgoing letterpress book (1892), general ledgers (1873-1901), journals (1873-1901), miscellaneous financial records (1872-1880), and a property abstract volume (circa 1890). There are subgroups for Elling, Knight, and Company; Montanian Publishing Company; Silver Spring Grist Mill; William Elling;...

Abstract The Hecla Consolidated Mining Company was a Glendale, Montana, gold and silver mining company. Records (1871-1900; 1921-1922) include incoming correspondence to mining department superintendent Samuel A. Barbour, interoffice correspondence (1877-1881) and letterpress books (1871-1886) of outgoing correspondence of general manager Henry Knippenberg. There are also employment records (1876-1922); financial records; a minute book (1898-1906); minor legal documents; production records; and...