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Leverett S. Ropes papers, 1888-1952
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Ropes, Leverett S. (Leverett Smith), 1868-1953
- Title
- Leverett S. Ropes papers
- Dates
- 1888-1952 (inclusive)18881952
- Quantity
- 5.5 linear feet of shelf space.
- Collection Number
- MC 196 (collection)
- Summary
- 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 financing of Montana mining ventures, and issues of personal interest to Ropes such as the repeal of prohibition and New Deal policies. In addition there is biographical material (1935-1946); court papers (1910, 1940); financial records (1936-1951); legal documents (1928-1943) for several mining companies; reports (1929-1952) by Ropes and others on numerous mining properties; speeches and writings (1929-1952) on mining and politics, including the lawlessness (racketeering) caused by prohibition; miscellany (1891-1947); and clippings.
- Repository
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Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov - Access Restrictions
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Collection open for research.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Leverett S. Ropes was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, on July 21, 1868, the son of Julius and Eunice Rouse Ropes. Julius Ropes was a drug store owner and chemist, who did analytical work for many of the Ishpeming region's mines. He was also the developer of the Ropes Mine, a gold property. Leverett Ropes studied mining geology under his father's tutelage and then attended Michigan College of Mining and Technology, graduating in 1893.
Leverett Ropes' early professional work was in the field of corundum mining and milling. He spent several years in North Carolina and Georgia and a year in Comberemere, Ontario, working with corundum. Using this experience he secured employment with the Montana Corundum Company to develop their mine near Gallatin Gateway. However, his real goal was to move to Montana to get into the quartz mining industry. During the next few years he worked for a number of different mining companies in Montana including the Montana Coal and Coke Company at Gardiner, the Jardine Mining Company at Jardine, the Bald Butte Gold Mining Company at Marysville, the Bullion Mine at Basin, and the Alta Mine at Wickes. In addition to his mining work Ropes worked on the construction of Mystic, Lake Dam near Bozeman and Hauser Dam near Helena. He also served briefly as a mineral inspector for the U.S. General Land Office from 1908 to 1910, and for the U.S. Forest Service in the fall of 1930.
In 1910 Ropes began doing private consulting work in partnership with Robert McIntyre. He incorporated under the name Intermountain Engineering-Development Company in 1919 to seek outside capital to finance Montana mining ventures. In July 1928 Ropes lost all of his mining records, reports, correspondence, survey notes, etc. in the fire which destroyed the Bailey Block and several other buildings in downtown Helena. Since his ability to interest investors in Montana mining properties was based on his extensive knowledge of these properties, the loss of his records crippled his work. During the 1930s and 194Os he gradually rebuilt his files, based partly on memory and partly on re-examination of many properties.
Leverett S. Ropes married Eleanor Husk Deal of Franklin, North Carolina, on December 12, 1894. The couple had four children: Dorothy, John, Judith, and Leverett. Leverett S. Ropes died on May 27, 1953.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
This collection contains papers of Leverett S. Ropes concerning his mining engineering and geology consulting work and relative to his interest in political issues. The general correspondence (1928-1952) mostly concerns mines in Lewis and Clark, Jefferson, and Broadwater counties, but also includes files on the Fort Peck Dam, on Ropes' disputes with federal agencies over financing of Montana mining ventures, and on New Deal polities. It also includes letters to and from members of his family, potential mine investors, political figures, government agencies, newspapers, and others about a wide variety of subjects. In addition there are biographical information (1935-1946); court papers (1910, 1940); financial records (1936-1951); legal documents (1928-1943) for several mining companies; reports (1896-1938) by Ropes and others on numerous mining properties; speeches and writings (1929-1952) on mining and politics; miscellany (1891-1947); and clippings (1928-1949).
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.
Preferred Citation
Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arranged by series. Some material housed in Archives Map Case, Oversize Box, and Archives Rolled Maps. See inventory below for more information.
Location of Collection
12:1-6Location of Collection
37:2-5 (oversize box 1)Location of Collection
M2:2-1 (rolled map 1)Acquisition Information
Acquisition information available upon request
Separated Materials
Printed material, most maps, photographs, and artifacts have been transferred to the Library, Library Map Collection, Photograph Archives, and Museum respectively. See inventory below for more information.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection
Biographical Materials Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1 / 1 | Resumes and other autobiographical
writings |
1935-1946, undated |
General Correspondence Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1 / 2 | Air mail contract system |
1934 |
| 1 / 3 | Alhambra Gold Mines, Inc., Jefferson
County (re Fleming, Pilot, Katie, Golden Gate mines, Warm Springs Creek;
correspondents include Mike Sullivan, James R. Brophy, J.W. Goldsbury,
C.R. Bralzier, Harfield Conrad, Gerald Conrad) |
1929-1934, 1939-1946 |
| 1 / 4 | Alta Corbin Mines Co., Wickes (Ann
Randall) |
1932 |
| 1 / 5 | Alta Mine, Wickes (correspondents include
R.T. Walker, C.V. Brennan, Paul E. Flynn, Isle Royal Copper Co., Blair
W. Stewart, Harvey Mudd, L.W. Wickes) |
1928-1950 |
| 1 / 6 | Alta Mine, Wickes (re dumps;
correspondents include E.R. Willis, E.W. Hyde, Frank Book) |
1947-1949 |
| 1 / 7 | Alta Mine, Wickes (re equipment, etc.) |
1947-1948 |
| 1 / 8-10 | Alta Mines Corporation, New York, Wickes
(correspondents include Clyde Weed, L.E. Whicher, Ted Thorbergson, Floyd
O. Small) |
1938-1952 |
| 1 / 11-13 | Alta Mines Inc., Portland, Oregon, Wickes
(correspondents include E.W. Hyde, Helen Hyde, E.B. MacNaughton, H.B.
Christopher, George S. Reid, Alfred G. Rouse, W.N. Brown, Maurice
Hudson) |
1946-1950 |
| 1 / 14 | Alta Ruby and K. and H. Mining, Wickes
(correspondents include Mrs. A.E. Raines; includes claim lease) |
1946-1950 |
| 1 / 15 | American Flag Mine, Holmes Gulch,
Jefferson County (Frank F. Raitt) |
1934 |
| 1 / 16 | A |
1930-1951 |
| 1 / 17 | G.A. Bailey (re gold prospects in
Montana) |
1934-1935 |
| 1 / 18 | Bald Butte Mining and Milling Company,
Marysville (William M. Belcher) |
1930, 1933 |
| 2 / 1 | Baltimore Mine, Boulder (Louis P.
Donovan) |
1935 |
| 2 / 2 | Barite (correspondents include Amos
Roberts, A.H. Raymond, R.C. Tarrant, Montana Oil Journal) |
1946 |
| 2 / 3 | Bell Boy Gold Mining Company, Marysville
(re Bell Boy and Towsley mines; correspondents include Mike Savage, W.H.
Abel) |
1932-1942 |
| 2 / 4 | Francis A. Bell (re Ropes family legal
matters) |
1942-1943 |
| 2 / 5-7 | Belmont Mines, Inc., Marysville (re
Thomas Cruse Mining and Development Company, Mt. Belmont Gold Mines,
Bald Butte Mines, etc.; correspondents include Marry Hickey, Clement
Quinn, J. Cleveland Haas, Joseph Hyman, James R. Thomas, George Arnott,
Roy C. Tarrant) |
1925-1941 |
| 2 / 8 | Belt Mountain Lead Mining Company (re
Silver and Bell Mine, Barker Mining District; correspondents include
R.W. Wilson, Lars Carlson) |
1931-1932, 1937 |
| 2 / 9 | Big Blackfoot Gold Mine, Lincoln (J.A.
Rowand, W.S. Norman) |
1931-1932, 1936 |
| 2 / 10 | Big Chief Mine, Broadwater County (W.L.
Barrett, Herschel James, A.F. Mavity) |
1930-1937 |
| 2 / 11 | Birds Eye Claim, Elkhorn (re Heagan
claim; correspondents include Lillian McKereghan) |
1932-1933 |
| 2 / 12 | Blackjack Mine, Corbin (Edith Dunn Keith) |
1934 |
| 2 / 13 | Blizzard Mine, Wickes (J.L. Penner, J.P.
Hiebert) |
1936, 1938-1939 |
| 2 / 14 | Blue Bird Mine, Wolf Creek (Karl Herter) |
1929 |
| 2 / 15 | Blue Cloud Placer Mine, Helena (re
tungsten and scheelite; correspondents include Blanche Keller, S.M.
Anderson) |
1930, 1940-1943 |
| 2 / 16 | "Blueprint" (re misuse of word) |
1943 |
| 2 / 17-19 | Boulder Belle Mining Company, Elkhorn (re
C & D and Louise mines; correspondents include John C. Sloss, C.A.
Clarke, Dutton Clarke) |
1909, 1932-1949 |
| 2 / 20 | James F. Brophy and James R. Brophy (re
Bald Butte, Penobscot, Dobler and other mines) |
1933-1937, 1942 |
| 2 / 21 | B |
1929-1947 |
| 2 / 22 | Canada Dept. of Mines and Resources (re
Canadian corundum mine) |
1945 |
| 2 / 23 | Canyon Ferry Dam (John L. Savage) |
1946, 1949 |
| 3 / 1 | Capital Consolidated Mining Company,
Holmes Gulch, Jefferson County (correspondents include Weston Clarke,
Dutton Clarke, L.B. Sandblast; also includes draft of application to
Reconstruction Finance Corp.) |
1932,, 1934, 1942-1948 |
| 3 / 2 | Capital Oil Well, Winston (H.C. Barth) |
1930 |
| 3 / 3 | Carbonate Mine, Silver Camp
(correspondents include J.A. Rowand, Blackfoot Silver Lead Mining
Company, C.L. Holmberg, Tonopah Mining Company, Hunter Williams, Clement
K. Quinn) |
1926-1932, 1937 |
| 3 / 4 | Channel Gold Mines, Ltd. (re Channel Gold
Mines, Bald Butte; correspondents include Belle Channel, H.R. Pettijohn,
Like Chapman, S.H. Fairweather, J.F. Dyche) |
1932-1941 |
| 3 / 5 | Coal (correspondents include Samuel Ford,
Montana Record Herald) |
1942, 1948 |
| 3 / 6 | E.E. Collins (re legal matters) |
1942-1943 |
| 3 / 7 | Co-op Gold Mine, Helena (correspondents
include Educational Cooperative Publishing Company, J.B. Bentley) |
1939 |
| 3 / 8 | Charles Cummings (re talc, marble,
Michigan mines) |
1930-1935 |
| 3 / 9 | Custer Mine, Winston (Walter Harvey Weed,
Albert C. Fisher) |
1932 |
| 3 / 10 | C |
1928-1951 |
| 3 / 11 | Davis Placer, Townsend (Frank O. Davis) |
1932-1934 |
| 3 / 12 | S.R. Davis (re Little Goldie, Western
Hope, and Shield's Last Stand mines, Boulder) |
1945 |
| 3 / 13 | Dobler Mine, Clasoil (correspondents
include Rudolph Dobler, Martin Naddy, W.L. Honnold, Louis P. Donovan,
H.B. Chessher, Harry Tilton) |
1931-1938 |
| 3 / 14 | Drumlummon Extension Mine, Marysville
(correspondents include Edward J. Dailey, Scott Calhoun, Associated Gold
Mines Company) |
1932-1935 |
| 3 / 15 | Dunlap claims, Magpie Gulch, Broadwater
County (H.W. Turner) |
1934 |
| 3 / 16 | D |
1929-1948 |
| 3 / 17 | East Pacific Mine, Winston
(correspondents include R.M. Anderson, H.W. Carver, U.S. War Production
Board) |
1937, 1942-1943 |
| 3 / 18 | Elk Creek corundum mine, Gallatin County
(correspondents include Edmund G. Toomey, Engineering and Mining
Journal, U.S. War Production Board, Reconstruction Finance Corp.,
American Abrasive Company, U.S. Public Roads Administration) |
1907, 1932, 1942-1943 |
| 4 / 1-4 | Elk Creek corundum mine, Gallatin County
(correspondents include U.S. War Production Board, Reconstruction
Finance Corp., Federal Loan Agency, Metals Reserve Company, American
Abrasive Company, Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, Flying D. Ranges,
Inc., U.S. Bureau of Mines, George Sinton, Defense Minerals
Administration; also includes Bureau of Mines reports annotated by
Ropes) |
1944-1951 |
| 4 / 5 | Engineering and Mining Journal (re
article, letters to the editor, etc.) |
1929-1950 |
| 4 / 6 | John E. Erickson (re appointment to U.S.
Senate) |
1933 |
| 4 / 7 | Eureka Mining Company, Marysville
(correspondents include Lide Chapman, charles Gibbons) |
1938-1939 |
| 4 / 8 | E |
1932-1950 |
| 4 / 9 | Fleming Mine, Alhambra (correspondents
include James F. Brophy, Newbourgh Mining and Milling Company) |
1933, 1937 |
| 4 / 10 | Fort Peck Dam |
1934-1939 |
| 4 / 11 | Fort Peck Dam hydroelectric project and
World War II |
1942 |
| 4 / 12 | Frankenfield claims, Dry Gulch, Helena
(correspondents include Cecil Murphy, W.A. Smith) |
1932 |
| 4 / 13 | Freedom of press (re corporate control of
Montana press and U.S. Post Office complicity) |
1933-1934 |
| 4 / 14 | F |
1931-1948 |
| 4 / 15 | Geology of Helena Valley (U.S. Public
Works Administration) |
1936 |
| 4 / 16 | Gibson and Lambert Associates (re Who's
Who in Engineering account) |
1933-1934 |
| 4 / 17 | Gold (re gold standard, gold miners' code
under National Recovery Act, etc.) |
1933-1934, 1937, 1949 |
| 4 / 18 | Gold Bug Mine [Weatherwax Mine], Yogo
(Walter C. Lehman) |
1944-1947 |
| 4 / 19 | Gold Canyon Mining Company (re Gold
Canyon Group, Channel Gold Mine, and Granite Butte mines, Gould;
correspondents include Belle Channel, Fred J. Anderson) |
1929-1931 |
| 4 / 20 | Gold King Mining Company, Winston
(correspondents include E.J. McCabe, Charles P. Day) |
1937-1939 |
| 5 / 1 | Gold Strike Mining Company, Hassel (re
Morning Glory Mine) |
1932 |
| 5 / 2 | Golden Crown Mine, Scratchgravel Mining
District (correspondents include R.M. Elder Walter L. Morgan, John
Howard, Patented Mines Company, Ed Jennings) |
1934-1940 |
| 5 / 3 | Golden Curry Mine, Elkhorn
(correspondents include A.A. Pelletier, E.E. Esselstyn, H.B. Chessher,
A.C. Johnson, Lillian McKereghan, C.L. Holmberg, Ford Johnson; also
includes copy of 1912 report on mine) |
1930-1934 |
| 5 / 4 | Golden Jack Mine, Fergus County
(correspondents include E.W. Carmichael, F.V.H. Collins, J.M. Bair, J.T.
Skinner; includes prospectus and assays for mines) |
1929-1931 |
| 5 / 5 | Great Eastern and Great Western claims,
Emigrant (K.L. Kearns) |
1940 |
| 5 / 6 | Louis Green's mine, Townsend |
1942-1944 |
| 5 / 7 | G |
1930-1947 |
| 5 / 8 | H & A Manufacturing Company (re
"serpentine" heating unit) |
1945 |
| 5 / 9 | Hall Mining Company, Rimini (re Peerless
Jennie and Crescent mines; correspondents include W.A. Hall, M.O.
Wilkins) |
1949 |
| 5 / 10 | John D.M. Hamilton (re Republican
National Committee) |
1936-1937 |
| 5 / 11 | E.G. Harris (re Silver Bell, Smith and
Harris, Prince Group, and Florence mines, Maiden) |
1934-1938 |
| 5 / 12 | Frank A. Hazelbaker (re campaign for
Governor) |
1932 |
| 5 / 13 | Helena-Jefferson Mines Company
(correspondents include P.H. Whiting, Timber Butte Milling Company,
Charles Hussey, R.T. Walker, W.G. Smart, Northwest Mines Investment
Company, W.J. Croze) |
1926-1930, 1942 |
| 5 / 14 | Helena schools |
1929, 1932, 1936-1938 |
| 5 / 15 | Helena street system |
1941-1943, 1950 |
| 5 / 16 | Helena water supply (includes Charles T.
Main reports, opinion in J.V. Weber vs. City of Helena, proceedings of
Helena City Council) |
1929-1943 |
| 5 / 17 | Henderson Gulch Placer Mines, Granite
County (correspondents include J.M. Thomas, W.S. Dawson) |
1940 |
| 5 / 18 | Hilger Placer Mine (J.G. Hilger, John M.
Thomas) |
1932, 1942 |
| 5 / 19-21 | Home Mining and Milling Company,
Marysville (re Towsley Gulch claims, Hardgrove-Williamson lease;
correspondents include Hugh P. Evans, Dave Evans, F.P. Hixon; also
includes report on company, 1888) |
1888, 1937-1950 |
| 5 / 22 | Homestake Mining Company, Lead, S.D.
(Lawrence Wright, B.C. Yates) |
1931 |
| 5 / 23 | Hoover Dam (Compressed Air Magazine) |
1930-1942 |
| 5 / 24 | H |
1930-1950 |
| 5 / 25 | Ideal Mining Company, Anaconda (re
Conshohoken group of mines; correspondents include A.J. White) |
1929 |
| 5 / 26 | Intermountain Engineering-Development
Company, Helena (correspondents include T.O. Hammond, E.B. Gibbs, E.E.
Wager, Martin Woolston) |
1929-1932 |
| 5 / 27 | Iron Ore newspaper, Ishpeming, Michigan
(re Ropes Mine, western mining politics) |
1931-1950 |
| 5 / 28 | Ishpeming Gold Mining Company, Ishpeming,
Michigan (re Ropes Mine; correspondents include J.H. Trebilcock) |
1932 |
| 5 / 29 | I |
1931-1942 |
| 5 / 30 | George R. Jackson (re family matters) |
1942-1943 |
| 5 / 31 | Josephine Gold Mining Company, Norris (A.
Doornbos) |
1936-1937, 1944 |
| 5 / 32 | J |
1937 |
| 6 / 1 | Khern Lode, Montana City (Louis A.
Jaffer) |
1933 |
| 6 / 2 | H.G. Kleinschmidt property and Mike Horse
Mine, Lincoln |
1929-1931, 1939 |
| 6 / 3 | Korisek Mine, Canyon Ferry (William H.
Sandstrom, Edgar H. Blair) |
1939, 1948 |
| 6 / 4 | K |
1929-1942 |
| 6 / 5 | Alf M. Landon (re presidential election) |
1936 |
| 6 / 6 | Last Chance Gulch Mining Association |
1943-1950 |
| 6 / 7 | Agnes Lewis (re pipeline on ranch on Warm
Springs Creek, Jefferson County) |
1933 |
| 6 / 8 | L.A. and M.T. Leydig (re house in Lenox
Addition, mining, etc.) |
1932-1933 |
| 6 / 9 | Little Ox and Big Ox mines, marysville
(Lou W. Kreicker) |
1932-1933 |
| 6 / 10 | L |
1932-1942 |
| 6 / 11 | MacDonald Pass |
1929 |
| 6 / 12 | Mammoth Mine, Eagle Creek, Broadwater
County (Charles Johnson, H.K. Bickford, A.V. Bergland) |
1934 |
| 6 / 13 | Mammoth Mines Corporation, Twin Bridges
(Earl R. Pulver) |
1936-1941 |
| 6 / 14 | Manganese property, Jefferson City
(William Delenais, Arthur and Henry Madison) |
1942-1945 |
| 6 / 15 | Marietta Mine, Townsend (correspondents
include Al Dance, Herschel James, R.D. Mott and Company, Gold Butte
Mining Company) |
1936-1942 |
| 6 / 16 | Mascotte Mine, Nevada Creek, Powell
County (Harry F. Stone) |
1930 |
| 6 / 17 | McClelland Creek water, Elkhorn Mountains
(James E. Keys, Peter Hilger) |
1930 |
| 6 / 18 | McKay Mine, Marysville (William J.
Stratton) |
1930 |
| 6 / 19 | Michigan Collete of Mining and Technology
(re alumni) |
1931-1949 |
| 6 / 20 | Mike Horse Mine, Lincoln (correspondents
include Sterling Mining and Milling Company, E.E. Wager, Hunter
Williams, Sam Stampfly, Tonopah Mining Company) |
1924-1939 |
| 6 / 21 | Frank J. Miller (re suit involving claims
in Sheep Eater Mining District, Jardine; includes mining claim
certificates, 1938-1941) |
1944 |
| 6 / 22 | Minah Mine, Wickes (correspondents
include Henry M. Lancaster, Continental Gold Mines, Inc., Minah
Consolidated Mines Corporation) |
1930-1936, 1942 |
| 6 / 23 | Mines Operating, Inc., Canyon Creek (re
Home Mining and Milling Company, Earthquake and Skokapee mines;
correspondents include Hugh P. Evans, F.P. Hixon) |
1946 |
| 6 / 24 | Mining Association of Montana (re
meetings, St. Louis Mining and Milling Company) |
1934 |
| 6 / 25-26 | Mining equipment (correspondence with
vendors: A-W; blueprints of ore crushing and reduction mill in OVERSIZE
FOLDER) |
1931-1937 |
| Oversize Folder | ||
| 1 | blueprints of ore crushing and reduction mill
[Oversize: See Archives Map Case] |
1931-1937 |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 6 / 27 | Mining Truth, Spokane (re Rimini Mining
District and Silver Camp, Lincoln) |
1930 |
| 6 / 28 | Monetary policy (re silver) |
1933-1934, 1939 |
| 6 / 29 | Montana-Chicago Mining Company, Mitchell
Gulch, Jefferson County (re Last Hope, Starret, and Eureka mines;
correspondents include Edmund G. toomey, Samuel Horwitz) |
1936 |
| 6 / 30 | Montana Geological Survey (re proposed
bill) |
1929 |
| 6 / 31 | Montana Oil and Mining Journal (re
Marysville mining properties) |
1934-1939, 1943 |
| 6 / 32 | Montana Power Company |
1932-1942 |
| 6 / 34 | Montana-Silver Tip Mining Company, Wickes
(re Silver Tip, Redding and Madison mines; correspondents include Henry
Madison, R.A. Davidson, W.G. Swart, C.L. Holmberg, J.H. Pearce, George
Redding) |
1928-1930 |
| 7 / 1 | Montana State Auditor, State Land Board,
Industrial Accident Board, et al. (re mineral leasing, Capitol dome,
Fort Peck, etc.) |
1929-1934 |
| 7 / 2 | Monte Christo Mine, Vipond Mining
District (A.H. Johnson, James Sherman) |
1945-1946 |
| 7 / 3 | Mulgrew claims, Rimini (Anne Kirk
Whitlock) |
1951 |
| 7 / 4 | M |
1929-1948 |
| 7 / 5 | New Departure Mines, Inc., Dillon Harry
Hickey, Wade V. Lewis) |
1925-1949 |
| 7 / 6 | New World Mining District, Cooke City |
circa 1905 |
| 7 / 7 | Nimrod lead mine, Missoula County (Frank
O. Davis, Paul E. Flynn) |
1941-1948 |
| 7 / 8 | N |
1931-1946 |
| 7 / 9 | Occidental Mining Company, Wickes (E.H.
MacDonald, Harrison B. Martin) |
1934-1935 |
| 7 / 10 | Oil lease policy |
1929 |
| 7 / 11 | Oker Mine, Flesher Pass (Joseph Oker,
S.W. Wilson) |
1929 |
| 7 / 12 | O |
1931-1942 |
| 7 / 13 | Pedro Mine, Helena (S.E. Howard) |
1939 |
| 7 / 14 | Penobscot Mine, Marysville (re Penobscot
and Bald Butte mines; correspondents include H.H. Naftalin, Keith
Mackay, H.G. Washburn, J.H. Longmaid; also includes copy of Frank
Longmaid's 1894 report) |
1932-1934, 1937 |
| 7 / 15 | Platner Mine, Prineville, Oregon (re
mercury mine; correspondents include Mrs. Frank Platner, H.B. Chessher) |
1933-1934 |
| 7 / 16 | Prohibition repeal |
1933-1934 |
| 7 / 17 | P |
1929-1948 |
| 7 / 18 | Quincy Mining Company (re Bald Butte
Mine; correspondents include William M. Belcher) |
1930-1933 |
| 7 / 19 | Reinig Placer Mine, Marysville
(correspondents include Edward Reinig, Chauncey A. Graves, Edward P.
Scallon, J. Cleveland Haas, G.S. Mobley, E.K. Davis) |
1932-1938 |
| 7 / 20 | Franklin D. Roosevelt administration |
1934, 1938-1941 |
| 7 / 21-22 | Ropes family (re family matters, Michigan
and Montana mining ventures; correspondents include Louella, George,
Judy, Jack, and Nora Ropes) |
1909-1910, 1930-1939 |
| 8 / 1-2 | Ropes family (re family matters, Michigan
and Montana mining ventures; correspondents include Judy, Louella, Jack,
and Leverett Ropes) |
1940-1951 |
| 8 / 3 | Ropes Mine, Ishpeming, Michigan
(correspondents include Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company,
James McNaughton, Joe St.Germain, George Curry, Emmet Smith) |
1888, 1927-1934, 1941 |
| 8 / 4 | R |
1931-1948 |
| 8 / 5-9 | St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc. (re
Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan, Marysville mines lease, Helena
earthquakes, Ropes' background; correspondents include O.B. Suck, John
J. Finley, Henry Sartorius, Kathryn Sullivan, John Way, H.G. Ferguson,
C.A. Graves, Wilbur H. Grant, R.M. Elder, Edmund G. Toomey) |
1935-1946 |
| 8 / 10 | St. Louis Mining and Milling Company,
Marysville (C.H. Wittenberg) |
1930-1932 |
| 8 / 11 | Saturday Evening Post |
1933-1946 |
| 9 / 1 | Sillimanite and corundum (correspondents
include Champion Porceline Company, champion Sillimanite, Inc., U.S. War
Production Board) |
1929-1944 |
| 9 / 2 | Silver and Bell Mine, Barker
(correspondents include United States Smelting, Refining and Mining
Exploration Company) |
1931 |
| 9 / 3 | Southern Montana Abstract Company (re
Beaverhead County township plats; correspondents include Frank
Hazelbaker, Keuffel and Esser Company, KLM Process Company) |
1930-1931 |
| 9 / 4 | Spokane Silver and Lead Mine, Custer,
South Dakota |
1931 |
| 9 / 5 | John Stansfield (re flotation process) |
1931-1934 |
| 9 / 6 | Stemwinder Mine, Fort Harrison (T.S.
Pryse, C.O. Hartin, J.P. Hiebert, Fred Reynolds) |
1930-1938 |
| 9 / 7 | Strikes and labor unions (correspondents
include Joseph W. Martin, Robert A. Taft, House Committee on Un-American
Activities) |
1942-1947 |
| 9 / 8 | Charlotte Strobel (re mines in Coeur
d'Alene District, Idaho) |
1939-1948 |
| 9 / 9 | Summit Mine, Deep Creek Mining District
(correspondents include John Dimeling, Mendota Mining Company) |
1930 |
| 9 / 10 | S |
1930-1950 |
| 9 / 11 | Talc mines (re McKelvey Mine south of
Helena; correspondents include John Dimeling, Mendota Mining Company) |
1930 |
| 9 / 12 | Timberline Lode, Corbin (C.R. Stranahan) |
1947 |
| 9 / 13 | Tin mines (W.S. Larssen) |
1942 |
| 9 / 14 | Towley Mines, Marysville (re Shakopee,
Home, and other mines; correspondents include Will Rimping, Hugh P.
Evans, Armor Martin, Geln G. Hayes) |
1940-1942, 1947-1949 |
| 9 / 15 | T |
1934-1946 |
| 9 / 16 | U.S. Forest Service, Federal Reserve
Board, U.S. General Land Office |
1930-1948 |
| 9 / 17 | U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Industrial
Advisory Board, U.S. Dept. of Labor |
1933-1949 |
| 9 / 18 | U.S. National Recovery Administration |
1933-1934 |
| 9 / 19 | U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation
(re job application, St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc., loan application) |
1935-1936, 1942 |
| 9 / 20 | U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation
(re Corporation's policies towards small mines, fluorite; correspondents
include Paul Flynn, Joseph W. Pahl, Charles Henderson) |
1942-1952 |
| 9 / 21 | U.S. Senate War Investigating Committee
(re malfeasance of Reconstruction Finance Corporation decisions on
corundum, etc.) |
1945 |
| 9 / 22 | U.S. Supreme Court (re "court packing";
correspondents include Arthur Vandenburg, Burton K. Wheeler, United
States News) |
1945 |
| 9 / 23 | U.S. Treasury Department; U.S. War Production
Board |
1941-1943 |
| 9 / 24 | United Gold Mines Corporation, Marysville
(re Bald Butte and Penobscot mines; correspondents include Edward P.
Scallon, Clement K. Quinn) |
1932-1933 |
| 9 / 25 | United States News |
1936-1942 |
| 9 / 26 | U |
1931-1950 |
| 10 / 1 | Victory Mine, Ophir Mining District
(correspondents include A.H. Johnson, Empire Mining Company, Manley R.
McGill, L. Lore Wartes) |
1938, 1943-1948 |
| 10 / 2 | Vosberg Mining Company, Winston (re
Vosberg and Gold Bug mines; correspondents include Ed Vosberg, C.W.
Lanaway, Frank Rose, Ray Johnson, James K. Sloan) |
1927, 1936, 1938 |
| 10 / 3 | V |
1930 |
| 10 / 4 | Who's Who in Engineering; Who's Who in
Montana; Who's Who in the Northwest; Who's Who in the Western
Hemisphere; Who's Who in the World |
1932-1949 |
| 10 / 5 | Willard Mine, Warm Springs Gulch,
Jefferson County (Robert Connell, A.N. Lund, C.M. Roos) |
1913, 1936-1937 |
| 10 / 6 | Joseph T. Wilson (re attracting Eastern
capital to Montana mining) |
1947-1948 |
| 10 / 7 | W |
1929-1949 |
| 10 / 8 | Z; unidentified |
1941-1948 |
Court Papers Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10 / 9 | In the matter of the birth of John Lyman
Ropes |
1940 |
| 10 / 10 | Ropes vs. Bald Butte Mining Company,
statement of Leverett S. Ropes |
1905 |
| 10 / 11 | St. Louis Mining and Milling Company vs.
Montana Mining Company, Ltd., certificate of sale |
1910 |
Financial Records Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10 / 12 | Income taxes RESTRICTED
|
1943-1951 |
| 10 / 13 | Miscellaneous (includes bills,
checkstubs, rent receipts, payroll deductions, tax receipts, etc.) RESTRICTED
|
1930-1949 |
Legal Documents Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10 / 14 | Dobler Mines, Inc. lease agreements |
1931-1933, 1943 |
| 10 / 15 | Elk Creek corundum mine lease agreement |
1943 |
| 10 / 16 | Rent and purchase of house from Fred
Hooper |
1933-1934 |
| 10 / 17 | Thomas Cruse Mining and Development
Company trust agreements |
1932 |
Maps Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10 / 18 | List of maps transferred to Library Map
Collection |
Photographs Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10 / 19 | List of photographs transferred to Photo
Archives |
Printed Material Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10 / 20 | List of printed material transferred to
Library |
Reports Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 10 / 21 | Alta Mine, Wickes |
1922 |
| 10 / 22 | Basin Gold and Silver Mining Company |
1920 |
| 10 / 23 | Calumet Group, Marysville |
1925 |
| 10 / 24 | Easter Farm, Jordan |
1927 |
| 10 / 25 | "Gold Fields of Montana" |
1932 |
| 10 / 26 | "Gold Trail" by Julius Ropes (re Ropes
Mine, Ishpeming, Michigan, also includes clippings) |
circa 1890 |
| 10 / 27 | Mt. Belmont Gold Mines, Marysville |
1933 |
| 10 / 28 | New Departure Mine, Blue Wing Mining
District, by George R. Metlen |
undated |
| 10 / 29 | "Ore deposits of the Little Rocky
Mountains, Montana," by Walter Harvey Weed |
1896 |
| 10 / 30 | Patented Mines Company property,
Scratchgravel Hills, by C. Standish |
1938 |
| 10 / 31 | Report on work as mineral surveyor on
Lolo National Forest (includes correspondence, field notes, etc.) |
1930 |
| 10 / 32 | St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc. (reports
on Marysville, St. Louis, Drumlummon, blue Bird, and Hickey Mines,
tailings, etc.) |
1935 |
| 10 / 33 | St. Louis Mining and Milling Company
(copies of reports by Walter P. Jenney and John R. Parks) |
1899, 1901 |
| 10 / 34 | Towsley Mines, Marysville |
1919 |
Speeches Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 11 / 1 | "Geology of the Helena Mining District"
(speech to Kiwanis Club) |
1937 |
| 11 / 2 | Helena Mining Region (speeches to Rotary
Club) |
1929 |
Writings Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 11 / 3 | "Agricultural Vagaries" (re Agricultural
Adjustment Administration) |
1934 |
| 11 / 4 | "The Chicken and the Egg, Which Came
First?" (re atomic physics) |
1946 |
| 11 / 5 | Comment on "Ore Deposits of the Boulder
Batholith" (American Institute of Mining Engineers) |
1947 |
| 11 / 6 | "Corundum" |
1929, 1946 |
| 11 / 7 | "Helena Earthquakes" |
1935 |
| 11 / 8 | "Is It a Fair Deal?" (re low bid process) |
1941 |
| 11 / 9 | "Keno Hill Ice Veins," Yukon territory
(drafts of article for Engineering and Mining Journal) |
1932 |
| 11 / 10 | "Lawlessness" (re prohibition) |
1933 |
| 11 / 11 | "Looking Backward!" (re Roosevelt
Administration) |
1934 |
| 11 / 12 | "The Marysville District" (Montana Oil
and Mining Journal) |
1936 |
| 11 / 13 | "Mechanics of Ore Injection" |
1929 |
| 11 / 14 | "The New Deal" |
1934 |
| 11 / 15 | "Notes on [Harold] Ickes' Proposed Metal
Mine Leasing" |
1937 |
| 11 / 16 | "Origin & Deposition of Economic
Minerals" |
1929 |
| 11 / 17 | "Reversing the Land Policy" |
1934 |
Miscellany Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 11 / 18 | Alta Mines, Inc. prospectus (includes
extracts from reports by L.S. Ropes and S.T. Hauser, 1922) |
1947 |
| 11 / 19 | Free Enterprise Uranium Mine, Boulder,
(speech by Wade V. Lewis, Elkhorn Mining Company to Exchange Club,
Butte) |
1952 |
| 11 / 20 | Gold Mining Association of America
registration card |
1933 |
| 11 / 21 | Ishpeming Hotel Company stockholder
meeting notices |
1946-1947 |
| 11 / 22 | List of artifacts transferred to Museum |
|
| 11 / 23 | List of mines operating or accessible in
Helena vicinity |
1937 |
| 11 / 24 | Mining Association of Montana membership
application, description of organization, program |
1945, undated |
| 11 / 25 | Montana Corundum Company stock
certificate |
1901 |
| 11 / 26 | Montana-Silver Tip Mining Company legal
agreements |
1928, 1930 |
| 11 / 27 | Montana Society of Engineers membership
list |
circa 1935 |
| 11 / 28 | Notebook (re Ropes' Michigan School of
Mines thesis on Dead River geology) |
1891 |
| 11 / 29 | St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc. annual
financial statements |
1936-1941, 1946, 1949 |
| 11 / 30 | St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc. stock
certificate and stock receipt |
1935 |
| 11 / 31 | St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc. survey
notes |
1935, 1940 |
| 11 / 32 | St. Louis Mining and Milling Company deed
(includes list of claims) |
1934 |
Clippings Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 11 / 33 | Fort Peck Dam |
1934, undated |
| 11 / 34 | Government programs, politics, etc. |
1931-1949 |
| 11 / 35 | Mineral industry |
1931-1949 |
| 11 / 36 | Mines (Marysville, Wickes, Rimini,
Michigan) |
1928-1949 |
| 11 / 37 | Mining Association of Montana |
1935-1945 |
| 11 / 38 | L.S. Ropes letters to editor |
1935-1936 |
| 11 / 39 | Miscellaneous (re science, education,
politics, religion, alcohol) |
1934-1949 |
Maps Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| oversizebox | ||
| 1 | mining related maps [Oversize box] |
undated |
| oversize-rolled | ||
| 1 | mining related maps [Archives Rolled
Map Shelves] |
undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Corundum mines and mining--Montana
- Dams--Montana.
- Earthquakes--Montana--Helena
- Geologists--Montana
- Geology--Montana
- Gold mines and mining--Montana
- Lead mines and mining--Montana
- Manganese mines and mining--Montana
- Mine brokers--Montana
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Beaverhead County
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Broadwater County
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Cascade County
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Fergus County
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Gallatin County
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Jefferson County
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Judith Basin County
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Lewis and Clark County
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Madison County
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Missoula County
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Park County
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Powell County
- Mines and mineral resources--Idaho
- Mines and mineral resources--Michigan
- Mines and mineral resources--South Dakota
- Mining claims--Montana
- Mining engineering--Montana
- Mining machinery--Design and construction
- Prohibition
- Silver mines and mining--Montana
- Strikes and lockouts--Montana
- Talc industry--Montana
- Uranium mines and mining--Montana
Personal Names
- Ropes, Leverett S. (Leverett Smith), 1868-1953 (creator)
Geographical Names
- Beaverhead County (Mont.)
- Broadwater County (Mont.)
- Carbonate Mine (Lewis and Clark County, Mont.)
- Dobler Mine (Clasoil, Mont.)
- Drumlummon Mine (Marysville, Mont.)
- Elk Creek Corundum Mine (Gallatin Gateway, Mont.)
- Elkhorn (Mont.)
- Empire Mine (Marysville, Mont.)
- Fergus County (Mont.)
- Fort Peck Dam (Mont.)
- Free Enterprise Uranium-Radon Mine (Boulder, Mont.)
- Gold Bug Mine (Yogo Gulch, Mont.)
- Golden Curry Mine (Elkhorn, Mont.)
- Helena (Mont.)
- Helena (Mont.)--Earthquake, 1935
- Jefferson County (Mont.)
- Judith Basin County (Mont.)
- Lewis and Clark County (Mont.)
- Lolo National Forest (Mont.)
- Madison County (Mont.)
- Marietta Mine (Townsend, Mont.)
- Marysville (Mont.)
- Mike Horse Mine (Mont.)
- Missoula County (Mont.)
- Mount Belmont Gold Mines (Marysville, Mont.)
- Park County (Mont.)
- Penobscot Mine (Marysville, Mont.)
- Powell County (Mont.)
- Reinig Placer Mine (Lewis and Clark County, Mont.)
- Towsley Mines (Marysville, Mont.)
- Victory Mine (Ophir Gulch, Mont.)
- Wickes (Mont.)
Finding aid prepared by Ellie Arguimbau, 1989,
updated 2005, 2015.
2005
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