Abstract This collection consists of records (1876-1974) of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and contains correspondence, court papers, financial and production records, legal documents, organizational records, subject files, and other materials for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and many of its predecessor and subsidiary companies and departments. Among the major subgroups are General Office; Big Blackfoot Milling Company; Bitter Root Development Company; Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper...

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Paul Fusz was a Philipsburg, Montana, mining investor and businessman. Papers (1903-1912) include correspondence, court papers, legal documents, and reports relating to various mining ventures, including the Granite-Bimetallic Consolidated Mining Company. There are subgroups for the Rimini Mining Syndicate and the United Confederate Veterans.

Abstract Samuel T. Hauser (1833-1914) was a Helena, Montana, Territory, pioneer, territorial governor (1885-1886), and entrepreneur in the fields of banking, mining, smelting, ranching, railroads, irrigation, and hydro-electric power. More than fifty percent of the collection is incoming correspondence (1864-1914). There are also outgoing correspondence, financial records, legal documents, organizational records, and reports. Included are thirty-eight subgroups of the Hauser family and Hauser's...

Abstract Anton M. Holter (1831-1921) was a pioneer Helena, Montana, lumberman and founder of the A.M. Holter Hardware Company. Papers (1831-1921) include correspondence, and organizational and financial records relating to mining, agriculture, lumber, real estate, and oil interests of three generations of the family, headed successively by Anton M. Holter, Norman B. Holter, and Norman J. "Jeff" Holter. Many of the enterprises were in partnership with Samuel T. Hauser. Interests include the A.M....

Abstract The Home Mining and Milling Company owned the Earthquake and General Grant lodes in the Stemple (unorganized) Mining District near Marysville, Montana. Records consist of interoffice correspondence (1912-1956); general correspondence (1903-1959); financial records (1914-1956); legal documents (1889-1953); organizational records (1904-1955); reports (1888-1942); and miscellany. Major correspondents include Bennett Price, Hugh P. Evans, and David P. Owen. There are small subgroups for several...

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The Hope Mining Company of St. Louis was a Missouri-based company with mining operations in Philipsburg, Montana. Records consist primarily of correspondence (1889-1901) between the home office in St. Louis and the mine office at Philipsburg (1889-1901). There is also correspondence with other companies about supplies, annual reports, and financial records.

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The I.B. Mining Company, located at Bannack, Montana, was a gold mining operation incorporated in 1929 by I.B. Haviland, Carl Becker, and C.W. Stalling. In 1931 the company began quartz mining of low-grade gold ore. Collection includes incoming, outgoing, and interoffice correspondence (1929-1933) relating to the operation of the company; plus lesser amounts of financial records, organizational records, etc. The company went bankrupt in 1933.

Content Description King Mine (Kentucky Vermillion Mining Company) Report (1901) document entitled: Report by Arthur B. Browne on the Kentucky Vermillion Mining & Concentrating Company's Property, Situated at Vermillion, Montana. Report assesses the values of ten mining claims and two mill site locations: Galena, Basil, Silver Star, Panhandle, Cariboo, Silver Bow, Fides, Monarch, Felicitas, and Sentinel, together with the Kentucky Mill Site and the Montana Mill Site located on Fishe Creek, In Flathead...

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John Lucas was mine superintendent of the Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company and other mining operations in the Philipsburg, Montana, area. Papers (1903-1916) include general correspondence with Paul A. Fusz, Charles D. McLure, and others about the operation of the mines. There are also materials on the Montana Democratic Party and the United Confederate Veterans.

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Collection includes two blank mining claim certificates of location and outgoing correspondence documenting Lucy Miller's efforts to sell or lease her deceased husband's gold, silver, and lead mining claims in Rochester, Montana.