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Mark P. Miller Milling Company Records, 1940-1960

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Mark P. Miller Milling Company
Title
Mark P. Miller Milling Company Records
Dates
1940-1960 (inclusive)
Quantity
8 Cubic Feet
Collection Number
MG133 (collection)
Summary
Office files, including correspondence and brochures; financial records, principally year-end reports and tax records; ledgers and other papers of this Moscow, ID, flour mill. Also included are tax-related papers of the Latah County Grain Growers, 1949-1960.
Repository
University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

In 1904 Mark P. Miller took over the Cochran & Sons flour mill on the corner of Jackson and 6th Street, Moscow, Idaho. The mill's chief product was Blue Stem Flour, a blend of wheat varieties which was very popular with housewives in the northwest. According to the 1903-1904 Polk directory, the steam powered roller mill had a capacity of 75 barrels a day. In 1908 the mill was converted to electricity and its capacity increased to 125 barrels, and by 1914 this capacity was doubled.

The Mark P. Miller Company was incorporated in September 1911. In 1922 Miller left Moscow for Portland where he also had flour mills and it is probably about this time that Moscow mill became a branch of Terminal Flour Mills, a Portland based firm. The company also operated a grain storage warehouse at the 6th and Jackson location and had two other warehouses in Oakesdale and Seabury, Washington. About 1959 the Moscow warehouse was sold to Latah County Grain Growers and the Washington warehouses were purchased by the Oakesdale Grain Growers.

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Content Description

The records of the Mark P. Miller Milling Company span the years 1940 to 1959, with the bulk of the material from the 1950's. Included are office files (primarily correspondence and brochures), financial files consisting of accountant's year-end reports and tax records, a grain ledger, and nine bound ledgers. There is also approximately one c.f. of Latah County Grain Growers tax returns and other papers for the years 1949-1960.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The records of the Mark P. Miller Company retain the original order of the records as received. The office files are alphabetical by subject, the financial files are separated by type of material such as accountant's reports, insurance inventory, payroll taxes, and county and state taxes. The ledgers are arranged first by type, then chronologically. The final series consists of tax related material of the Latah County Grain Growers, arranged chronologically.

When individual items such as invoices or check vouchers were recorded in a journal, the individual items were removed from the collection. In cases where journals and ledgers contained the same information only the ledgers were retained. As a result, the records were reduced by approximately five cubic feet.

Acquisition Information

The records of the Mark P. Miller Milling Company of Moscow, Idaho, were donated to the University of Idaho by Palouse Producers of Moscow in March 1984.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

  • Flour mills -- Idaho -- Moscow -- History -- Sources
  • Grain trade -- Idaho -- Moscow -- History -- Sources

Corporate Names

  • Latah County Grain Growers

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names

    • Mark P. Miller Milling Company -- Records

Finding aid prepared by Judith Nielsen
1984

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