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Title |
North Butte Mining Company records, 1905-1934. |
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Description |
Letter inquiring is Jas D. Moore is alive |
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Creator |
North Butte Mining Company. |
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Genre (Short List) |
documents |
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Type |
Text |
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Language |
eng |
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Date Original |
1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934 |
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Subject (LCSH) |
Speculator Mine (Butte, Mont.); Copper mines and mining--Montana--Butte.; Granite Mountain Speculator Mine Disaster, Mont., 1917.; Mine accidents--Montana--Butte.; Mining corporations--Montana--Butte.; Granite Mountain Mine (Butte, Mont.) |
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Rights Management |
Transmission, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use under the copyright laws requires written permission of the copyright owner. For permission to publish contact mhslibrary@mt.gov. |
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Contributors |
Braly, Norman B.; Carson, Arthur C.; Cole, Thomas F., b. 1862.; Kennedy, Frederick R.; Linton, Robert, 1870-1942.; Pope, John D., b. 1869. |
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Contributing Institution |
Montana Historical Society Research Center |
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Digital Collection |
Letters, Diaries and Documents from the Montana Historical Society |
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Physical Collection |
Manuscript Collection 290 Box 6 Folder 28 |
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Digital Format |
image/jp2 |
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Physical Dimensions |
3.5 linear ft. |
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Digitization Specifications |
Scanned at 300-550 ppi, 24bit color. Display images were generated by ContentDM. |
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Description-Abstract |
Business records of North Butte Mining Company. Core of the collection consists of interoffice correspondence (1906-1923) between the general manager in Butte, Mont., and the president and secretary-treasurer in Duluth, Minn., and New York. The correspondence includes annual and quarterly reports and weekly letters which all describe development work and production in considerable detail. The remainder of the interoffice correspondence deals with general problems of operation of the mines. There is also general correspondence (1906-1907, 1914-1926) with equipment suppliers, other mining companies, and a wide variety of other letters. Of special interest are files of letters inquiring about possible victims of the Granite Mountain and Speculator disasters. In addition, there are a small number of assay reports, ore shipment statements, and estimates of ore reserves; legal documents; lists of mining claims; articles of incorporation; and a scrapbook of clippings about the Granite Mountain Mine explosion (1915) and fire (1917).; Butte, Mont., mining company. The North Butte Mining Company was incorporated under Minnesota law in 1905. The company purchased the Speculator Mine, the Granite Mountain Mine, and several smaller mines in Butte. The mine operations were conducted by general managers A.C. Carson, John D. Pope, and Norman B. Braly. The corporate officers in Duluth, Minn., included presidents James Hoatson, Thomas F. Cole, and Robert Linton, and secretary-treasurer Frederick R. Kennedy. The company contracted out ore processing, thus saving capital that otherwise would have gone into the building of a smelter. The company immediately was able to pay out large dividends to stockholders. By 1911 the investors' $6 million investment in stock had been paid off. In 1915 the company suffered the first of two major disasters. On 19 Oct. 1915 dynamite was ignited accidentally on the surface next to the Granite Mountain shaft, killing fifteen miners. On 9 June 1917 a spark ignited a fire in the Granite Mountain shaft, killing about 160 miners. Although the company quickly repaired the damage to the shaft, production never returned to pre-fire levels. After the end of World War I, copper prices dropped dramatically and production was curtailed. In Mar. 1921 production ceased. Later the company operated sporadically through leases until it was purchased by the Anaconda Company in 1952. |
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Contact Us |
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Relation |
Finding aid in the repository.; http://worldcat.org/oclc/70922886/viewonline |
Letters, Diaries and Documents from the Montana Historical Society
