Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company Records

Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company Records, 1884-1919

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company
Title: Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company Records
Dates: 1884-1919
18841919
Quantity: .8 linear feet
Collection Number: Collection 2140, MtBC, us (collection)
Summary: The Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company Records consists of records from the Granite Mountain Mining Company followed by records of the Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company and some materials of T. H. Kleinschmidt, a mine investor. The papers include copy ledger books; letter and account copy files; a time book; expense bills and receipts from suppliers and shippers; survey information; records of smelting, shipping and purchases of the mined ores; leases, bids, agreements and stockholder communications and some miscellaneous post cards and pay check stubs.
Repository: Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company of Philipsburg, Montana, was formed in April 1898 by the merger of the Granite Mountain Mining Company and the Bi-Metallic Mining Company. In 1881, Charles D. McLure with several St. Louis capitalists, including Charles Clark, Augustus B. Ewing, Lewis M. Rumsey, Moses Rumsey, and Charles Taussig formed a syndicate incorporated as the Granite Mountain Mining Company. In June 1886, another property was incorporated as the Bi-Metallic Mining Company by a syndicate comprised of many of the same owners of the Granite Mountain Mining Company, with the addition of Paul A. Fusz and others. Following the 1898 merger of the two syndicates, the company had several years of profitable operation. After it went into receivership in 1903, the mines were operated primarily on the lease system. They produced sporadically through the 1920s, and in 1934 the Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company was dissolved.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection consists of records from the Granite Mountain Mining Company followed by records of the Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company and some materials of T. H. Kleinschmidt, a mine investor. The papers include copy ledger books; letter and account copy files; a time book; expense bills and receipts from suppliers and shippers; survey information; records of smelting, shipping and purchases of the mined ores; leases, bids, agreements and stockholder communications and some miscellaneous post cards and pay check stubs.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Collection 2140 was received from the Museum of the Rockies in 1985 with other business paper collections and had no individual accession number. In 1970, Marjorie Durand of Phillipsburg, Montana donated accession 886, a group of Granite Mountain Mining Company papers which has been combined with the 2140 collection. Additional materials, arranged as folders 6-12 in Box 2, were donated by Darlene Mills of Lolo, Montana on March 16, 2015.

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2015 March 25

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/1	Butte area expense ledger pages (fragile)	1886-1896
1/2	Photocopies of Butte area expense ledger pages	1886-1896
1/3	Letter file book- Granite Mountain Mining Company	December 1884-October 1885
1/4	Weekly time sheet book - Granite Mountain Mining Company	September 1886
1/5	Expense bills from Northern Pacific Railroad Company shipping	1888, 1890
1/6	Granite Mountain Mining Company - assorted bills and receipts	1885-1891
1/7	Survey detail sheets - Granite Mountain Mining Company	undated
1/8	Pay check copies - Granite Mountain Mining Company	1889
1/9	Post card telegrams - Granite Mountain Mining Company	circa 1880s
1/10	Bullion sheets - Granite Mountain Mining Company	1887-1902
1/11	Assorted papers- leases, bids, agreements - Granite Mountain Mining Company	1889-1892
1/12	Copy account book- Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Company	1905-1906
2/1	Purchase records - Garfield Smelter Company from Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Company	1908
2/2	Leaser and Company shipments - Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Company	1913-1914
2/3	Special stockholder meeting papers - Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Company	1917
2/4	Smelting records - Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Company	1908, 1918-1919
2/5	Kleinschmidt mining papers	1898-1905
2/6	Board minutes	1903
2/7	Board minutes	1904
2/8	Board minutes	1905
2/9	Board minutes	1906
2/10	Miscellaneous correspondence
2/11	Miscellaneous reports
2/12	Printed materials
cabinet
Oversize	Map of the Granite Mountain Mine claims and tunnels	1887

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Mines and mineral resources-Montana-Granite County
Mining corporations-Missouri-Saint Louis

Form or Genre Terms

Business records

Other Creators

Personal Names
- Kleinschmidt, Theodore H. (Theodore Henry), 1839-1913 (creator)
Corporate Names
- Granite Mountain Mining Company (creator)

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