Abstract

Thomas Cruse was a Helena, Montana, miner, banker, and businessman. This collection (1841-1956) consists of incoming correspondence; legal and financial records; maps; reports; and miscellany. Records for Cruse's various enterprises are divided into nine subgroups including the Thomas Cruse Savings Bank; Thomas Cruse Estate; Thomas Cruse Mining and Development Company; etc.

Abstract Montana Mining Company Ltd., a British corporation, operated the Drumlummon Mine in Marysville, Montana, from 1882-1911. Records include interoffice correspondence (1893-1905); outgoing correspondence (1893-1904); incoming correspondence (1890-1905); employment records including payroll, contracts, insurance, and inquests (1893-1902); financial records including bank deposits, bills of lading, board register, checkbook, cash accounts, corporate balance sheets, estimates, invoices, operating...

Abstract Helena, Montana, mining and geological engineer Leverett Ropes (1868-1953) was employed by various mining firms, by the federal government, and as a private consultant. This collection contains papers (ca. 1888-1952) concerning Ropes' mining engineering and geology consulting work and his interest in a variety of political issues. The general correspondence (1928-1952) concerns mines in Lewis and Clark, Jefferson, and Broadwater counties, Fort Peck Dam, his dispute with federal agencies over...

Content Description

One photographic album containing 21 black and white photographic prints depicting the Montana Mining Company's operations and the Northern Pacific Railway grade in Marysville, MT, circa 1890. Views include: tailing dam; stamp mills; air compressor; storehouse; offices; homes; stables; woodyard; and Emma Miller mill site. The photographs are by the I.W. Taber Studio in San Francisco, California.